Portland’s Socialist City Councilors Pledge To Probe City’s Ties to ‘Apartheid’ Israel as Violent Crime Remains at ‘Historic Highs’

By Jessica Schwalb

As violent crime figures remain at “historic highs” in Portland, Ore., four socialist city councilors are pledging to launch an investigation—into any “complicity the city may have with Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid, or genocidal violence against Palestinians.”

Any actual investigation would need to be launched via a resolution voted on at a public city council meeting, a spokeswoman for the council said. The four socialist councilors—Tiffany Koyama Lane, Mitch Green, Sameer Kanal, and Angelita Morillo—nonetheless promised to conduct one during a virtual Friday afternoon press conference organized by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

The councilors say the investigation would center on the “manufacturing of weapons and weapons parts intended for use by the Israeli government” as well as “investments in our contracts with companies complicit in Israeli illegal occupation, apartheid, or genocidal violence against Palestinians.”

“Every dollar that is going towards bombing and maiming innocent people abroad is a dollar that is not being spent on our infrastructure here at home,” Morillo said during the press conference, which the Washington Free Beacon attended.

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