Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson draws criticism for Gaza remarks at Town Hall forum

SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is facing criticism over remarks she made during a recent forum on fascism, Israel and Gaza. Wilson appeared Sept. 24 at Town Hall Seattle with authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor to discuss their book, End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World. At the event, Wilson praised the authors’ work and said she was “proud to share a stage” with them. After a video about a proposed vision for redeveloping Gaza, Wilson said the imagery juxtaposed “the genocide in Gaza” with “that AI-generated paradise, where someone’s obviously going to make a...