Comments on: San Jose City Council to Israel and Hamas: Ceasefire, Help Gazans, Free Hostages

By: Shan Saigal

Shan Saigal — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:32:15 +0000

San Jose City and Santa Clara county need to stop paying the US Govt any tax payer funds as they’re cheating the Taxpayers by giving billions of dollars to Israel and together committing atrocities of killing children, seniors and others in Palestine. This is Genocide.
US needs to stop these killings. The US and congress supporting this genocide are all
Committing genocide.

By: Ceasefire Now

Ceasefire Now — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:40:23 +0000

The comments here are (mostly) ridiculous. Those of you cherry-picking and equating racist graffiti with mass murder are, frankly, an embarrassment. That you’re advising city leaders to just focus on fixing San Jose while a literal genocide takes place exposes your lack of humanity. If the show were on the other foot you would be screaming for not only condemnation (do you condemn hamas???) but solidarity in the form of political, emotional, and of course financial support for israel. The war being waged in Gaza, the WB, and East Jerusalem is not a “war” but a massacre – a genocide, ethnic cleansing. And if this doesn’t get you riled up as much as some graffiti where no one was hurt, you may need to do a soul-check to ensure it’s still there.

By: ceasefire now

ceasefire now — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 02:19:49 +0000

Honestly this both sides statement is pointless. Either take a stand or don’t. only one side is using our tax dollars to commit genocide. Instead of sending $18 billion to Israel (this year alone) to bomb sleeping kids in their pajamas, let’s keep that money here to support struggling americans.

By: Joe Smith

Joe Smith — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:14:00 +0000

I strongly urge the city council to figure out how to mow the lawns in our parks on a regular basis and to keep our streets cleared of inoperable and illegal to operate vehicles.

By: susie murillo

susie murillo — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:01:54 +0000

The antisemitic targeting of DA Jeff Rosen by local pro-Hamas groups has been the most outrageous example of Hate Speech in Silicon Valley in recent memory: predictably, crickets from local “news” media and our political class (who prefer to revel in absurd both-sides-ism). Read response from local Jewish groups here:

https://www.opportunitynowsv.org/blog/explicit-antisemitic-imagery-in-local-pro-hamas-flyer-deeply-disturbs-jewish-leaders

By: David Cohen

David Cohen — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 20:27:49 +0000

Thank you Don! You are spot on.

By: Don Gagliardi

Don Gagliardi — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:42:53 +0000

When a resident wakes up to “Die Jew” on his porch in Almaden, that’s a “San Jose problem.”

By: Time to be Honest

Time to be Honest — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:38:47 +0000

Fix San Jose problems.

By: Don Gagliardi

Don Gagliardi — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:34:51 +0000

It would be nice if local journalists would ask the San Jose City Councilmembers precisely what specific instances of “Islamophobia, antisemitism, and anti-Arab hate” they claim to be “witnessing.”

I provided by email to the City Council an instance of antisemitism (“Die Jew” on a porch in Almaden), so we know they are aware of that instance (and the proof of my report can be obtained in a public records request). Journalists might follow up to ask each of them why they didn’t immediately publicly denounce it, and what steps they did take, if any. (The Mayor’s neighborhood affairs staffer asked me for the details, which I provided, and said he would forward to the police, but I’ve heard nothing since; the District 10 office sent me an automated “ticket” number, but never substantively followed up.) Maybe a journalist could exercise their shoe-leather to follow up.

Are there any other specific instances the City Council is alluding to? Any instances of Islamophobia in San Jose since October 7? Any instances anti-Arab hate? If so, why didn’t the Mayor and Councilmembers immediately publicly denounce it, and what steps they took as a result? Journalists should be asking these questions instead of acting as an unpaid PR shills for the City Council.

By: Wendy Greenfield

Wendy Greenfield — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 06:38:17 +0000

Many thanks to the mayor and city council members for expressing their compassion for the loss of innocent lives in Gaza and Israel. As our taxes fund Israeli bombing missions which have killed over 24,000 people in Gaza, it’s important that cities around our country speak out to stop these attacks and care for those whose food and water have been cut off. It’s important so the money is redirected for our needs in our own communities, and it’s important for the moral fabric of our society. As Martin Luther King said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”