Just from the context, let me guess - he opposes zionist oppression and murder and theft of Palestinian land, right?
And (looking him up)… yep. There it is.
So why the random potshot implying Mamdani is struggling to win over Jewish New Yorkers? On what basis does the Times make this claim? The reality is that Mamdani has alienated pro-Israel adovacy groups and pro-Israel donors, but this sounds too ideologically motivated, so instead the Times conflates the “Jewish community” with support for the Israeli government and its myriad war crimes in Gaza over the past 20 months.
On that note, has anyone else noticed that the governments and their media mouthpieces aren’t even trying to trot out their standard “Israel has a right to defend itself” rhetoric? Even they realize that there’s no way to even pretend that that’s what Israel is doing now. All they have left is conflating opposition to Israeli actions and policies with “antisemitism,” and they just flog that one lie constantly.
I always wonder what it must feel like to be that morally bankrupt. They can’t possibly all be conscienceless monsters — what goes on in the heads of the ones that still have at least some vestige of a functioning moral center? How do they cope?
I presume it involves a lot of alcohol.
Of course they are.
I’m having a hard time thinking of a major American news institution at the moment that doesn’t deserve to have a sledgehammer taken to its goddamn knees.
He refused to say in the debate that Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state. That is probably enough for AIPAC to drop the knife on him.
If you don’t accept their religious-nationalist colonialist ethnostate’s genocide you clearly disagree with their religious or ethnic right to exist, instead of the fact they are a religious-nationalist colonialist ethnostate who is committing genocide!
“Does Rhodesia have the right to exist?”
Actually that’s not even quite it. He refused to say Israel has a right to exist “as a jewish state” and continued with “Israel has a right to exist as an equal state for all”. He also refused to say the first thing he would do if he got elected was to go visit Israel.
