Letters from the Public - 2 of 2 — San Jose City Council, March 24, 2026

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Enforcement (ICE). This is a reasonable and important step toward the City of San Jose more fully divesting from corporations that do business with ICE.

Updating the City’s Investment Policy and practices in this way is important to me and my community because I am a member of our county's rapid response network and have seen first hand the negative impacts ICE has on our city.

The City should invest in the safety and well-being of our people, not companies that support an agency causing extreme harm in our community and country by terrorizing communities with threats and violence, tearing families apart, and violating Constitutional and human rights.

San Jose City Council has been a leader in establishing policies and practices - “No Staging Zones”, “No masking”, the De-escalation Plan, etc. - that provide both concrete protections and demonstrate the City’s values for our community.

As Councilmembers Peter Ortiz and Rosemary Kamei state in their memo:
“This item represents a natural next step in aligning the City’s investment practices with those values by providing direction to limit future exposure to companies with identified ties to ICE. In doing so, the City reinforces its commitment to ensuring that public funds are managed in a manner that reflects both its fiduciary responsibilities and the priorities of the community it serves.”
We hope we can count on your continued support and strong leadership to respond to community concerns and protect the safety and well-being of all. This will add to the City of San Jose’s model policies and practices that are being replicated by others across Santa Clara County and beyond.

Thank you,
Christal Niederer, 95123
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I also support the city’s longstanding position of refraining from actions on foreign policy matters. Such issues fall outside the city’s jurisdiction and can be divisive within the community.

Thank you for your consideration.

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Alla Shamis
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the community and lies outside the city’s scope and jurisdiction Sincerely
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Natalie S

the community and lies outside the city’s scope and jurisdiction.

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T. Hadas
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Irit Korem

the community and lies outside the city’s scope and jurisdiction.

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Sarah Londer

the community and lies outside the city’s scope and jurisdiction.

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San Jose City Council has been a leader in establishing policies and practices - “No Staging Zones”, “No masking”, De-escalation Plan, etc. - that provide both concrete protections and demonstrate the City’s values for our community.

As Councilmembers Peter Ortiz and Rosemary Kamei state in their memo:
“This item represents a natural next step in aligning the City’ s investment practices with those values by providing direction to limit future exposure to companies with identified ties to ICE. In doing so, the City reinforces its commitment to ensuring that public funds are managed in a manner that reflects both its fiduciary responsibilities and the priorities of the community it serves.” We hope we can count on your continued support and strong leadership to respond to community concerns and protect the safety and well-being of all. This will add to the City of San Jose’s model policies and practices that are being replicated by others across Santa Clara County and beyond.

Thank you,
Carolyn Kameya
San Jose Nikkei Resisters
Member of Neighbors not Enemies Coalition of San Jose Japantown

This message is from outside the City email system. Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources. the fatal shootings by ICE of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti reveal the dangerous reality we live in. I do not want my taxpayer dollars going towards corporations that do business with ICE. I want the City of San Jose to immediately divest investments of any kind and business with corporations that have ties to ICE. San Jose deserves better than elected officials who prioritize businesses that profit off of harm to the people of our city.

The supplemental memorandum proposes the following "1. Sell the investments immediately

2. Allow the investments to mature, and make no new investments in the companies identified 3. Divest and restructure the portfolio over time" as options to divest from companies that provide services to the State of Israel in its ongoing conflict in Gaza and support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner finds, "Israel has
committed genocide in the Gaza Strip" https://www.ohchr.org/en/press- releases/2025/09/israel-hascommitted-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds”. The act of genocide in Gaza should be sufficient for the City of San Jose to choose divestment. If you do not divest, you are complicit in genocide. San Jose deserves better than elected officials complicit in genocide.

The only people who are afraid are those in the wrong. Be Brave. Divest Now. Inspire leaders across the nation to do the same.

I hope you make the moral choice.

Krishna
California

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Please follow staff’s recommendation and reject this proposal.

Respectfully,
Roi Bejerano

the community and lies outside the city’s scope and jurisdiction.

Thank you,
Ema Garcia
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Yaron Marx, SJ district 9

The supplemental memorandum proposes the following "1. Sell the investments immediately

The only people who are afraid are those in the wrong. Be Brave. Divest Now. Inspire leaders across the nation to do the same.

I do not deserve leaders that are complicit in institutions that oppress minorities, including mine. I do not deserve leaders that are complicit in repeating 1930s Nazi Germany.

Catherine
California

I also support the long-respected city resolution REJECTING any action on foreign policy, which divides the community and lies outside the city’s scope and jurisdiction.

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P Jones
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The supplemental memorandum proposes the following "1. Sell the investments immediately

The only people who are afraid are those in the wrong. Be Brave. Divest Now. Inspire leaders across the nation to do the same.

I hope you make the moral choice.

Alexis
California

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As Councilmembers Peter Ortiz and Rosemary Kamei state in their memo:
“This item represents a natural next step in aligning the City’ s investment practices with those values by providing direction to limit future exposure to companies with identified ties to ICE. In doing so, the City reinforces its commitment to ensuring that public funds are managed in a manner that reflects both its fiduciary responsibilities and the priorities of the community it serves.” We hope we can count on your continued support and strong leadership to respond to community concerns and protect the safety and well-being of all. This will add to the City of San Jose’s model policies and practices that are being replicated by others across Santa Clara County and beyond.

DO THE MORAL AND ETHICAL THING! SILENCE IS COMPLIANCE.

Thank you,
Deborah St Julien

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As Councilmembers Peter Ortiz and Rosemary Kamei state in their memo:

“This item represents a natural next step in aligning the City’s investment practices with those values by providing direction to limit future exposure to companies with identified ties to ICE. In doing so, the City reinforces its commitment to ensuring that public funds are managed in a manner that reflects both its fiduciary responsibilities and the priorities of the community it serves.”

We hope we can count on your continued support and strong leadership to respond to community concerns and protect the safety and well-being of all. This will add to the City of San Jose’s model policies and practices that are being replicated by others across Santa Clara County and beyond.

Thank you,

Karen Matsueda
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“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” -Gwendolyn Brooks

The supplemental memorandum proposes the following "1. Sell the investments immediately

The only people who are afraid are those in the wrong. Be Brave. Divest Now. Inspire leaders across the nation to do the same.

I hope you make the moral choice.

Danielle
California

the community and lies outside the city’s scope and jurisdiction.

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Hadas
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clothing.

If applied consistently and universally, it would demand sanctions against numerous governments and armed groups responsible for well documented atrocities.

Yet, its laser focus on Israel reveals its true hand - selective enforcement disguised as morality to isolate Israel, a staunch democratic ally.

We ask you to read this letter, reject terrorist ideology, refuse to give this resolution any oxygen, and vote for our democracy instead.

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED....

Is a 'social justice' movement legitimate if...?
1) It pays 'protesters' using funds linked to U.S. designated terrorist groups? [1-3] 2) Its followers harass, intimidate, vandalize, are violent, and even murder fellow Americans? [4] 3) It shuts down civil discourse and intimidates people who dare to disagree? [5] 4) It demands civil rights protections for itself but violates the civil rights of fellow Americans - including a protected minority? [6]
5) It rebrands a terrorist attack as 'resistance'? [7]
6) It ONLY condemns one country, and is silent while its compatriots in different countries are doing ACTUAL atrocities (e.g., slaughter of protesters in Iran; slaughter, rape, and enslavement of Black Christians in Nigeria and Sudan; lack of gender equality in many Muslim majority countries)? [8-12] 7) It calls for anti-Black racism in America while perpetuating Black racism in many Muslim majority countries (e.g., Libya, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, UAE) ? [13-20] 8) It uses silence or rebranding to justify rape against Jewish women? [21] 9) It uses coalitions with civil rights groups (e.g., Black Rights, Communists, Feminists, LGBTQ+ Community) that it vehemently disagrees with to broadcast its ideology and then abandon in the future? [22-23]
10) It calls for the discrimination, exclusion, and intimidation of fellow university students? [24] 11) It bullies city councils to vote on isolating a democratic ally that protected and rescued its citizens after experiencing a terrorist attack and simultaneous attacks on seven fronts against its diverse citizens on its 3,000-year-old indigenous land? [25-26]
12) It demands that Americans abandon their moral reasoning - the bedrock of democratic values? [27] Additionally, have you ever asked yourself....?
How could thousands of students in 520 American universities, a day after 10/7/23, all chant the exact same chants, repeat the same libelous accusations on and off-line, hold the same banners, and use identical strategies for campus take overs? [28]

AHA MOMENT
Have you figured it out? This is not 'social justice.' It is an authoritarian movement dressed in sheep's clothing.

It is the fruit of a Master Plan, entitled The Memorandum (1991), comprehensively designed by the notorious Muslim Brotherhood (MB) (a designated terrorist organization in Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, 3/24/26, 12:37 PM Mail - Agendadesk - Outlook
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The document states:
"The Ikhwan [The Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated, and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions" [31].

Rather than using overt violence, the MB uses sophisticated strategies to embed multi-layered extremist Islamist ideology in the U.S. - keeping peaceful Muslims, and all diverse people who speak against this ideology, silent with reputational and financial intimidation, vandalism, and violence [32].

FOUR LAYERS OF ENTRYISM IN THE USA
The Memorandum meticulously outlines four major strategies that weaponize our democratic freedoms (e.g., free speech, civil rights, lawfare, etc.) to embed an intolerant ideology with the aim of destroying our democracy.
1) POLICY IMPACT: Islamists achieve consultative government positions to obstruct our country's response to counterterrorism and shift foreign policy. In a wiretap, the FBI discovered that CAIR is a front for the MB - Hamas - in the U.S. Post September 11th, CAIR has played a strategic role in removing counter-terrorism training about Islamist extremism in Department of Homeland Security manuals [33- 34].
2) LEGAL FRAMEWORK MANIPULATION: Islamists turn debate about their ideology and violent behavior into claims of discrimination to protect their totalitarian agenda [35]. 3) INSTITUTIONAL INFILTRATION: Islamists build networks of schools, charities, Islamic chairs, campus and off-campus organizations to transmit their ideology under the radar of those unaware it is propaganda meant to destroy the host democracy. The Muslim Students Association (MSA) is in 600 U.S. colleges, there are 300 Islamic Centers in 42 U.S. states, and U.S. professors, such as Cornell's Russell Rickford, call the Hamas terrorist attack "exhilarating" [36-37]. 4) NARRATIVE CONTROL: Islamists influence media, education, and academia, using financial investments and media partnerships to promote MB ideology and spokespersons. Qatar, a state sponsor of terrorism, has spent over $100 billion across U.S. Congress, lobbyists, colleges, PR firms, corporations, and media [38-39].

BDS: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S SECRET WEAPON
BDS, and its rebranded cousin "ethical divestment resolutions," are an essential part of the MB's "civilizational jihad"[40].

Like other totalitarian movements, the MB needs a rallying cry, so it wraps its intolerant ideology in 'social justice' language to create messaging palpable to Western ears. By rallying against Israel, the MB pretends to sell Americans 'social justice' but in reality, it fools Americans into amplifying its violent 3/24/26, 12:37 PM Mail - Agendadesk - Outlook
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Yes, the MB wants to eradicate Israel, but its ultimate goal - is to take down the USA - the seat of DEMOCRACY in the world and replace it with extreme, intolerant Islamism via "civilizational jihad" [42].

BDS: INFRASTRUCTURE TO AMPLIFY TERRORIST IDEOLOGY
The goal of BDS campaigns is not merely to pressure cities to adopt terrorist ideology that ultimately tries to shape U.S. foreign policy.

The true power of BDS lies in its role as a permanent, embedded organizational infrastructure across America -- one that can be rapidly mobilized against American cities during future global crises to fool and pressure the public into aligning with MB terrorist ideology [43].

Our city's decision regarding BDS is a test case for how deeply we allow or block this infrastructure from taking root. Choose wisely.

MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ALIGNED GROUPS
It is essential to carefully look at the groups that are pushing for this proposed resolution in our city. The Memorandum lists 29 initial groups embedded in the USA that are carriers of the MB totalitarian ideology (see reference # 44). Moreover, the Memorandum mentions the importance of building alliances with groups (e.g., Black rights, Communists, Feminists, LGBTQ+, etc.) whom the MB vehemently disagrees with and will abandon in the future - but intentionally uses to broadcast MB's terror messaging [45].

BDS: FALLING INTO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S TRAP - A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL

HARMONY
Even entertaining BDS in the hallowed halls of our city government plays right into the MB's hands - threatening our laws and the security of our communities.

The U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause grants only Congress the power over foreign policy and sanctions - not cities. This proposed resolution risks unconstitutional overreach and undermines the rule of law [46-47].

Moreover, there is a direct correlation between divestment campaigns such as this and the increase of discrimination, harassment, and violence against Jewish citizens [48-49].

After the violent hate crime perpetrated by three assailants against two Jewish Americans at a San Jose restaurant this month, why would your governing body risk the liability of generating more violence against our Jewish community members? [50]
Why would you entertain a resolution that ultimately violates our Constitution, threatens the civil rights of our neighbors, and rips away at the peaceful fabric of our society?

CONCLUSION
Now you are on record for learning about the Islamist game plan. The MB's original document is a must- 3/24/26, 12:37 PM Mail - Agendadesk - Outlook
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Will you dare wade into international waters or wisely focus on your defined role in city governance? This proposed resolution does not promote justice - it institutionalizes selective outrage.

It replaces universal principles with a totalitarian ideology that values intolerance and violence - opposing the democratic principles of our city and country.

This proposed resolution risks repeating history's most familiar error: mistaking moral language for moral action.

We urge you to indefinitely REJECT the proposed BDS resolution.

Our city and our genuine commitment to human rights demand better.

Sincerely,
Wendy Heiot
"We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization." ~ Students for Justice in Palestine [53]
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