On the anniversary of terrorist attack against Israel carried out by the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, a member of the Portland City Council voiced her opposition to a proclamation in remembrance of the event, refusing to condemn the terrorist organization’s massacre of civilians in the name of “equity.”
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Monday’s meeting of the Portland City Council fell on Oct. 7, marking one year since the Islamist terrorist group Hamas launched an attack from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, killing approximately 1,200 Israelis and taking about 250 people — including U.S. citizens — hostage.
Portland Mayor Mark Dion presented a proclamation to the City Council “in remembrance of the atrocities of October 7, 2023,” that condemns the “horrific acts of violence” perpetrated by Hamas during their attack, including the killing of civilians, the murder of women and children in their homes and sexual assault.
The proclamation also recognized the loss of civilian life on both sides of the conflict, and urged a rejection of hatred, antisemitism and terrorism in all its forms.
“Since October 7th, the region has seen continued death, destruction, and the loss of physical and emotional safety for all who live in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank,” the proclamation reads. “Civilians on all sides–Israeli, Palestinian, and others–have paid the ultimate price for the decisions made by their governments and governing bodies, enduring profound harm and hardship.”
“It is only through a future that guarantees safety, dignity, and sovereignty for all peoples in the region that lasting peace can be achieved,” the proclamation states.
“We call upon the residents of Portland to join in rejecting hatred and terrorism in all its forms and to stand united in our shared pursuit of justice, safety, and a future free form violence,” it states.
Before Mayor Dion read the proclamation, City Councilor Anna Trevorrow said she was “troubled” to have her name “associated with this proclamation,” arguing that to support the resolution would be out of line with the Council’s goal of “equity.”
“While absolutely we mourn suffering, reject violence and recognize the events of October 7th, 2023, as a tragedy, this proclamation mistakenly treats October 7th in isolation, and erases the 70-plus years of systematic violence conducted by the state of Israel against the Palestinian people,” Councilor Trevorrow said.
“These ongoing years of violence include imperialism, the apartheid government and international crime, and Israel’s war against Palestinians in Gaza — military operations that the International Court of Justice has characterized as disasterous, with some operations potentially amounting to acts of genocide,” Trevorrow continued.
“The proclamation is out of integrity with the Council’s goals on equity,” she said. “Equality is not the same as equity, and to treat both sides as equal is actually to tip favor to the oppressor.”
Councilor Trevorrow then pointed to the clause in the proclamation that recognizes the loss of civilian life on both sides of the conflict, claiming that doing so “distorts the reality” that “suffering and torture has disproportionately been inflicted by the state of Israel against the Palestinian people living in Gaza.”
“While antisemitism is real and wrong, it is not synonymous with critique of Zionism,” she added.
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Trevorrow also argued that the proclamation “mischaracterizes and treats the Jewish community as homogenous” on the issue of the Israel-Hamas conflict given that members of the Jewish community in Portland and elsewhere have “spent the past year protesting Israel’s war on Palestine, and its illegal military actions.”
The only mention of the Jewish community in the proclamation is a clause that reads:
“The trauma of October 7th has reverberated across the world, with Jewish communities, including here in Portland, mourning the senseless loss of life, the violation of human rights, and the escalation of antisemitism that followed in the aftermath.”
Trevorrow’s opposition to the proclamation comes after the Portland City Council unanimously passed a resolution in support of an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, as well as a resolution calling for the city to divest all public funds from “entities complicit in the current and ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.”
[RELATED: Portland City Council Unanimously Passes Israel Divestment Resolution…]
Neither of those resolutions previously passed by the Council include any mention of Hamas, or the hostages still being held prisoner by the terrorist group since Oct. 7.
Trevorrow announced in June that she would not be seeking another term on the City Council.
The Portland City Council’s full proclamation in remembrance of the atrocities of October 7, 2023, can be read below:
Dumbocrat
Why do you think Portland is such a cesspool. Everyone is entitled to be stupid and show the world. She probably thinks Jesus and Lucifer are morally equivalent. Thank you Anna for being another example of why we should never trust Democrats to run anything more sophisticated than a lemonade stand….maybe!
as usual, no definition of equity
This entire city council couldn’t amout to the sweat on Netanyahu’s scrotum.
How did Anna get on the city council in the first place ?
Can the state be saved from these crazies ?
It’s a shame that some people will never know evil till it affects their family. Sadly the way the dems have ruined this state that should be any day now.
”You can’t fix stupid.” These sorry excuses for human beings have no business running a lemonade stand let alone a city.
Hay, Portland City Council. No one gives a $#!+ what you think. Don’t you have enough work to do and problems to fix without a proclamation about something on the other side of the world? Excessive taxes maybe?
Councilor Anna Trevorrow, You Are An Idiot. Try picking up a book and learn something instead of “going with your heart”. WHAT A COW!
It is odd that the largest town in our low population state persists in handing me reasons to stay out of the place. I prefer to drive down to BOS than fly out of PWM, even with the more expensive parking charge at Logan.
It’s a picture of a face that needs to be slapped .
Then voted out of office .
Is that you Karen?
“…70-plus years of systematic violence conducted by the state of Israel against the Palestinian people…” This means that the attack was Israel’s fault. When I was in Israel I saw how well the Palestinians lived under Israeli government and how poorly they lived under the Palestinian one.
This idiocy is the reason I do NOTHING in Portland, EVER! As eateries and other businesses continue to close, as gangs continue to run wild with knifings nearly every night! Portland has nothing to offer to most, that can’t be found elsewhere, and every election citizens of Portland prove they have nothing in common with the rest of Maine except Lewiston and Bangor. Enjoy your little fiefdom as more and more citizens abandon doing business or entertainment there!
Pure communist and Portland wonders why they have the problems they have. People of Portland keep voting these Communists in and your city will look like Portland, OR, a sh!thole.
The duel citizen homosexual NYC jews are illegally occupying Palestine. This is a fact. The U.N has stated as much. The occupation jewish army is guilty of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Another fact. Hamas is a political organization elected by the people of Palestine to represent them. Apparently this site hates free and fair elections when the winner isn’t a cuck to jews and fat ‘mericans. Furthermore, the inbred bloodthirsty jews are trying to start WWIII by attacking all of their neighbors. jews are unhinged.
To clarify, the Council Divestment resolution listed numerous businesses NONE OF WHICH THE CITY HAS ANY investments. My question to them at this Council meeting was ‘did they know that or not before they brought the resolution forward? If yes, why did they bring it forward; if not, why didn’t they do their homework?’. You can see me speak at about 32:10. Ms. T is my rep and I am so relieved that she’s not running. As a Jew, I was jaw-dropped horrified by her statement.
Is she also the idiot who wanted to SAVE THE RATS when they were dismantling the homeless zoo underneath the bridge?
Hamas wants to kill people over dirt. What would they do with the land, have they ever made anything more productive by being there. they just live on hate