Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday expressed concern about anti-Semitic remarks made by the Rev. Mitchell Johnson, president of the Chicago Board of Education, but stopped short of saying Johnson should resign.

“If you’re asking me if I accept the remarks that were made, I don’t,” Pritzker he said at a press conference. Johnson’s comments were first reported by Jewish Insider.

He said the appointment of Johnson to the high-profile post in early October was a failure of the vetting process, but seemed inclined to give Johnson the benefit of the doubt about the content of his inflammatory social media posts.

“I have to say that to the extent that someone (has been) nominated for a position, especially one as important as that of the Chicago schools, I think vetting is vitally important. That doesn’t seem to have happened here,” Pritzker said. “All I can say is that I think we should hear from the president more about what his positions really are. He wrote things, but, you know, people can theoretically change, they can change their minds.”

Johnson did not respond to a request for comment on his Facebook posts, including one that said his “fellow Jews seem drunk on Israeli power.” But him posted a quote on Facebook on Tuesday night, suggesting he would not back down or apologize.

A majority of the Chicago City Council signed on a letter on Wednesday, calling for the Reverend Johnson to resign and criticizing Mayor Brandon Johnson for appointing him to the role. Mayor Johnson has not commented on the revelations about Reverend Johnson’s social media posts. (The two are not related.)

Pritzker did not call out Mayor Johnson directly. But he wondered why these positions were not identified by members of the mayor’s team.

“You have to check people. Look, you can miss things from people’s vets, sure. But it turns out Facebook posts are pretty easy to find,” Pritzker said.

Still, Pritzker said “judgment should be withheld” pending an analysis of the entire social media history.

“It’s possible for people to write things or say things they didn’t mean, you know, in the heat of the moment once or twice. So if that’s the case, the chair should say something about it,” Pritzker said. “If that’s not the case and that’s somebody’s lifetime record — I think, for example, Donald Trump is an example of someone who has a very long record, and I think it’s pretty simple. So I just want to be clear that more checks should have been done.”