(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- When it was time to light a menorah Thursday afternoon on the front lawn of the Governor’s Mansion in Springfield, Gov. JB Pritzker could not sidestep the news of the day.
“Hate is evil,” said the governor, who is Jewish. “To everyone here, remember that anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, anti-Christian and anti-LGBTQ hate all are against God’s law. All of them.
“And they’re un-American.”
Afterward, Pritzker continued his comments about what seems to be a rising tide of hate, which has been partly attributed to the Israel-Hamas war.
“I have not seen it as bad as it has been over the last several months. And I think that -- let me be clear -- I believe that the haters, people who are also Islamophobes, people who are also anti-LGBTQ, those are the same people that are rearing their ugly heads around anti-Semitism.”
Jewish faith leaders from around the state joined the governor.
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