After months of protest, Chicago becomes the largest city in the country to call for a ceasefire after passing a city council resolution.

City council voted 23-23 on the resolution and mayor Brandon Johnson broke the tie in favor of ceasefire.

There were 2,450 shootings and 617 homicides across Chicago throughout 2023.

The Chicago city council should pass a resolution calling on a ceasefire in their own city before attempting to resolve the Israel-Hamas war.

President Biden ordered broad financial and travel sanctions on Israeli settlers accused of participating in attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank.

Speaking of the "settler violence" campaign - here is a look at the UN report on which the broad international campaign is based:

A friend with children recently stayed with his sister. "Do you want chocolate," asked the aunt, and the children of course shouted yes. "Okay, just so you know that the powder is not chocolate but carob powder, the milk is soy milk, and we drink without sugar."
I was reminded of the market without this market at the sight of the UN data on settler violence, until the outbreak of the war the most important issue in the eyes of the world between the Jordan and the Sea, and since the outbreak of the Gaza war in the second respectable place. Only when you break down settler violence to pennies is there not so much violence and no settlers. Dr. Michael Wolfovich, a criminology researcher from the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University, received the data from the United Nations. Apparently, atrocity: between 2016 and 2022 no less than 5,656 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians took place. But when you dive into the details, it turns out that 1,600 of them took place in Jerusalem , almost all of them - Jews entering the Temple Mount or police confrontations with Muslims who rioted on the Mount.
After further filtering, 2,500 events remain that describe an attack on property or a person, but they include, for example, an attack that a terrorist carried out against Jews and exterminated them. On April 8, 2018, Muhammad Abdel Karim Marshud tried to stab Israeli citizens in Mishor Adumim. He was wounded and died the next day. The UN reports two incidents of violence: on April 8, a Palestinian was shot, on April 9, a killing.
On July 26, 2018, the late 30-year-old Yotam Ovadia was stabbed to death by a 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist. Here too, according to the UN, the neutralization of the terrorist by Yotam is settler violence. The same goes for a stabbing attack on the Mor farm in Mount Hebron, and another one in Yitzhar, and the wounding of Arab rioters from the security forces' shots at Yosef's tomb, and entry into the tomb of Yehoshua ben Nun. Even car accidents in which a Palestinian settler was run over were classified as violence. After all, we are left with about twenty incidents of violence per month, most of them mutual incidents, and some of them are Palestinian reports only, without verification. Even if they are all correct, here is the correct comparison: according to the IDF, only between 2019-2022 there were 25,257 attacks by Palestinians on settlers, a rate of 500 per year. Last year the number jumped to 763.
Inflating the violence of the settlers from a limited phenomenon to far-fetched dimensions is intended to quiet the conscience of the world in a kind of strange symmetry to the aid it provides to Israel in its war against the killers of Hamas. In Israel it was intended to serve the purpose of expelling the settlers and establishing a Palestinian state. This week a position paper of a think tank funded by the new fund and a German fund was published on the news site "The Jewish Voice" within the framework of which they are working to denigrate the settlers in order to help revive the idea of ​​Palestinian independence. If you like, this is not the Haggadah.

(Amit Segal)