Newly appointed president of Chicago education board resigns amid uproar over antisemitic social media posts

[Sympthsical]

1. Reminds me of this shitshow many, many moons ago

This was in the 00's when I was still a young LGBT activist type in Chicago.

https://forward.com/news/6669/illinois-commission-roiled-over-nation-of-islam-ta/

I remember this, how people bent over backwards to defend it or paper over it like the mayor tried to do here. Then the gays got involved (which is where I came into it), because guess what? Antisemites usually don't like gay people either. Quelle shock. It was an incredibly formative experience for me in how I view antisemitism on the Left and how intertwined it is with homophobia and oppression of other minorities in the name of anti-oppression. What ended up happening is the Jewish and LGBT communities started getting called racist for challenging NoI and Farrakhan and not putting up with it anymore.

Chicago has some tricky, tricky politics with antisemitism. But because it's not seen quite as heavily Jewish as places on the East Coast - and because there are heavily racialized components - it gets elided over more easily. But it's always been roiling just under the surface (and the NoI has always been underlying a lot of the stuff).

I can't believe I'm still discussing this shit in 2024, but here we are.