Illinois Review skewers Mayor Lightfoot ally Ramzi Hassan
By Ray Hanania
Illinois Review, one of the conservative movement’s most respected online news sources, took Edward’s Realty President Ramzi Hassan to task for his support of Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau
But in the process, Illinois Review also revealed that Hassan, who is Palestinian American, donated $5,000 to the beleaguered campaign of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot whose anti-Arab policies have been second only to former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
In 2020 and 2021, Lightfoot closed between 50 and 100 Arab owned small businesses in Chicago using a Task Force that victims described as being “racist” in their rhetoric and tone. The Task Force closed the Arab stores, and then issued citations AFTER the closure orders were given. Click this link to read the many news media reports on the closures.
Lightfoot closed the stores, nearly all Arab except for a few whose owners “look Arab,” in the false premise of telling the community she is doing something to confront the rising street gang violence when in fact she did nothing. The Arab American store owners protested and forced Lightfoot twice to end the discriminatory targeting of their stores.
The store owners got a lot of help from Arab American businessmen, but not from Hassan who was very generous in supporting far right wing fanatic Mayor Keith Pekau in Orland Park, which has one of the fastest growing Arab American communities in the Southwest Suburbs.
Hassan’s donation of $5,000 to anti-Arab Mayor Lori Lightfoot was reported in December 2022 after the Arab store owners struggled to confront Lightfoot.
How does ANY Arab American donate money to the campaign of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, whose anti-Arab hatred has been second to only former Mayor Rahm Emanuel? So pathetic and disgusting. This is a great story.
Click here to read the Illinois Review story on Ramzi Hassan.
(Ray Hanania is an award winning former Chicago City Hall reporter. A political analyst and CEO of Urban Strategies Group, Hanania’s opinion columns on mainstream issues are published in the Southwest News Newspaper Group in the Des Plaines Valley News, Southwest News-Herald, The Regional News, The Reporter Newspapers. His Middle East columns are published in the Arab News. For more information on Ray Hanania visit www.Hanania.com or email him at rghanania@gmail.com.)
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Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for the Arab News Newspaper, covering Middle East and Arab American issues. He writes for the Southwest News newspaper group writing on mainstream American issues.
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