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Residents urge Cincinnati council to speak on Gaza; multiple public commenters say city silence equals complicity
Summary
Several speakers at the Citizens Forum urged Cincinnati City Council to take a public stance on civilian casualties in Gaza and to stop municipal investments that they say enable the violence; speakers described graphic accounts of civilian harm and said the council's silence is harmful.
Multiple members of the public used the Citizens Forum to press Cincinnati City Council to take a public stand on civilian harm in Gaza and to end local investments and policies they said support the violence.
Jonathan Nortman invoked graphic images and called taxpayer-funded U.S. support complicit in what he described as mass civilian killings. “It is our funding…
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