Metro Nashville Councilman Sean Parker is a founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America-Middle Tennessee Chapter, which has scheduled a rally for Palestine on Saturday afternoon in downtown Nashville.
The “Emergency Rally for Gaza,” scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. in front of the Estes Kefauver Federal Building on Broadway, will be held exactly one week after the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas attacked Israel from the Gaza Strip and raped, tortured, and systematically murdered 1,300 Israelis, most of them innocent civilians. More Jews were killed last week than on any day since the Holocaust, according to the Economist. Among the dead are 27 Americans, and a handful of U.S. nationals are part of the approximately 150 people the terrorist group took hostage.
It’s not clear whether Parker (pictured above, right) will attend the emergency rally or what his position on it is. He did not return requests for comments from The Tennessee Star. His social media pages have been silent on the subject of the Hamas terrorist attacks and subsequent war launched by Israel against Hamas in response.
His radical Democratic Socialist friends have been clear about where they stand.
An online flier for the rally bears a photo of two men standing atop a military vehicle, their arms raised triumphantly and one holding what appears to be a Palestinian flag as smoke chokes the sky.
Show your support for Palestine this Saturday, 10/14 at 4:30 PM at 801 Broadway in Nashville pic.twitter.com/sFu96tPx5n
— Middle Tennessee DSA 🌹 (@MidTNDSA) October 12, 2023
In a letter to “comrades,” the Middle Tennessee DSA wrote that the chapter has “always stood resolutely on the side of Palestinians and Palestinian rights both here in Middle Tennessee and in Palestine.”
No condemnation of the inhumane destruction wrought by the Jew-hating terrorist group that claims to be freedom fighters for Palestine — whose members routinely use Palestinians as human shields. Just more leftist rhetoric about the “apartheid” conditions of Palestinians splashed with queer and trans rights dogma.
“Our tax dollars in Middle Tennessee fund the Zionist military and contribute to the brutal subjugation of Palestinians,” rails the anti-Israel comrade letter posted on Facebook.
Founding DSA-Middle Tennessee member Parker isn’t the only far-left Metro Nashville official quiet on the pro-Palestine rally.
Zulfat Suara, a Nigerian-American leftist activist who became the first Muslim elected to the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County Council and the first immigrant elected to an at-large position, hasn’t said a word about the terrorist attack on Israel on her social pages. The socialist previously led the Tennessee American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC). Under her leadership, AMAC joined forces with Linda Sarsour, one of the most vocal anti-Semites in the U.S., featuring Sarsour at different AMAC events, according to dailyrollcall.com.
Suara (pictured above, left) did not return The Tennessee Star’s requests for comment.
Neither did newly elected liberal Mayor Freddie O’Connell. He’s said nothing on his X account (formerly Twitter) about the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas. Nor did he have time to attend a Monday evening solidarity event held by the Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville at the Gordon Jewish Community Center. O’Connell did distribute a statement to Israel solidarity event organizers but has yet to denounce Hamas’ acts of terrorism.
The statement was not reported in any other media outlet, nor did it appear on the Metro Nashville website as an official statement from the mayor’s office or on any of his social media.
A spokesperson for the mayor told The Star in an emailed statement that O’Connell, who was sworn in as mayor less than a month ago, “was out of town at a conference.”
O’Connell did not return an email from The Star seeking his thoughts on the Democratic Socialists’ “Emergency Rally” for Palestine.
Nashville Vice Mayor Jim Shulman didn’t respond to a request for comment, either.
Olivia Hill, celebrated by the Left as Nashville’s first transgender council member, could not be reached for comment Friday.
Hill did post a message condemning Hamas on X following the terrorist group’s merciless rampage.
“The terrorist attacks by Hamas on the people of Israel are absolutely horrific,” Hill wrote. “Please join in solidarity at the Gordon JCC on Monday at 7 pm and show support during this time of war. #IStandWithIsrael”
The terrorist attacks by Hamas on the people of Israel are absolutely horrific. Please join in solidarity at the Gordon JCC on Monday at 7 pm and show support during this time of war. #IStandWithIsrael pic.twitter.com/GUxBnNY9JS
— Olivia Hill | Metro Council At-Large (@Oliviafornash) October 8, 2023
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M.D. Kittle is the National Political Editor for The Star News Network.
Photo “Sean Parker” by Sean Parker. Photo “Zulfat Suara” by Bobajiroro. CC BY-SA 4.0.
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“We must meet this evil with an overwhelming show of love.” – former Nashville mayor Megan Barry.
Nashville used to be the Pride of Tennessee. Now, it is nothing but an embarrassment as a city run by liberal Communists. Knoxville is showing signs of being the next embarrassment.
Where did you get these numbers from? This is all fake news.. We know now that the media is biased to israel, and we aren’t stupid…
700 children in a week I think we know who would be called nazis. But
they are silent because they support them
If Tennessee was Germany under Hitler, this group would be called NAZIS.