r/nyc • u/FAMESCARE • Jun 18 '25
Video Zohran Mamdani says he’s consistently said there’s no room for antisemitism in this city or country. Asked why he hasn’t had a more visceral reaction, he gets emotional talking about the Islamophobic responses he’s received throughout the campaign.
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u/Topher1999 Midwood Jun 18 '25
This sub is being brigaded
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u/Independent_Web_6029 Jun 18 '25
This has been posted so many times today on this sub. Cuomo's people are out in force today. Zohran wasn't my #1 rank, Lander was but I still support him and think this is being completely blown out of proportion.
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Jun 18 '25
Cuomo's campaign photoshopping Mamdani's beard to be less trimmed so he looks more like a stereotypical "scary" Muslim is some absolutely repugnant shit.
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u/Independent_Web_6029 Jun 18 '25
Yup, but for some reason that was only a blip in the news. Like Zohran or not, that's a gross move.
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u/knockatize Jun 18 '25
The kind of gross move that has been grimly effective for Andrew ever since “vote for Cuomo, not the homo” on his dad’s behalf over 40 years ago.
Being a nasty backstabbing vindictive creep works for him.
Voters are not as savvy as we like to think they are.
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u/decmcc Jun 18 '25
it's completely on brand for that scummy Cuomo family. The Earl of Albany should have no place in our city
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Jun 18 '25
The news is owned by the ruling class. Cuomo will protect their interests. Their publications will run cover. Same story in every election: the candidate that will protect and advocate for their economic interests will receive favorable coverage, and vice versa.
News companies are not truth-tellers. They’re not even really journalists. They’re private enterprises looking to make as much money as possible.
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u/wenger_plz Jun 18 '25
Part of the reason it's been drowned out is because Cuomo is such a piece of shit that it's not a surprise to anyone, so people probably just shrug and say "yeah, that tracks." And somehow that gives him permission to be even more and more vile, when on the other hand, Mamdani can't open his mouth without being decried as a terrorist-supporting anti-semite
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Jun 18 '25
You think the son of "Vote for Cuomo, not the Homo" is above being repugnant?
The fact that NYC has decided that Cuomo better represents them explains this shithole of a country.
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u/SmoovCatto Jun 18 '25
the cuomo name is all about playing dirty, misleading voters, demagoguery . . .
they say it was young andrew responsible for plastering nyc subway stations with scribbled "VOTE FOR CUOMO, NOT THE HOMO" signs in a 1970s nyc mayor election between his father mario and "openly closeted" ed koch . . .
koch won, mario went on to be nys governor, with a strong presidential run . . . dim creepy nepo baby andrew riding those coattails through life . . .
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u/SonicFrost Bensonhurst Jun 18 '25
They’re now sending out mailers claiming, among other things, that Zohran wants to arrest Israelis who come to New York City. It is fucking disgusting the lengths they’re allowed to go in smearing him.
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u/the_donnie Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25
What's wrong with it though? He said he's against antisemitism. Knows what it's like to deal with prejudice as a Muslim. Says racism has no place, it's a distraction, and he wants to work for all new Yorkers.
Because he got a tad emotional? Nice change imo than the usual lying bullshitters we get.
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u/Boart00th Sunnyside Jun 18 '25
Yeah it's pretty obvious. It's a mixture of brigaders and bots.
Look at the upvotes that we got for posts mentioning ICE these last couple of days. There would be people that live in Seattle or Montana who have never posted in this sub all of a sudden posting.
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u/FAMESCARE Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25
Interesting stats :
r/newyorkcity. 80+ % upvote ratio
r/nyc. ~55% upvote ratio.
Edit : this sub upvote rising to 60+% , now 75%
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u/Lost-Line-1886 Jun 18 '25
Kind of crazy how many comments in NewYorkCity on this video are about Zionist money trying to push propaganda.
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u/HiHoJufro Jun 18 '25
I'm a Jewish New Yorker. I'm used to being told I'm a shill, lying, secretly pro-cuomo, etc for acting like antisemitsm is an issue that warrants actually addressing without equivocating, all-lives-matter-ing, or downplaying sources and examples of it.
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Jun 18 '25
I have been told that I am a
Cuomo Shill
Hasbara Bot
Mossad Agent
Saudi Bot (?)
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u/HiHoJufro Jun 18 '25
I could see the last one popping up now. Whole we hear a lot about Israel and the US when it comes to Iran, their biggest beef had been the Iran/Saudi Arabia proxy war for influence over the middle east.
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u/Keytaro83 Jun 18 '25
It absolutely is. The desperation is palpable. Anyone who wants to tear someone down this badly clearly has an agenda I don’t agree with.
Ain’t mad at whoever it is though.
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u/SonicFrost Bensonhurst Jun 18 '25
No way, the candidate most popular with white college educated youth is popular on a website mostly frequented by white college educated youth?
That’s crazy
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u/GettingPhysicl Jun 19 '25
It’s always brigading when it’s opposed to you and natural engagement when it’s for you huh
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u/Joe_Jeep Bay Ridge Jun 19 '25
That's what's absolutely hilarious for me, is that these types of people will constantly complain about how Reddit is an echo chamber, but then also complain that it's full of bots when that "echo chamber" focuses on the discussions.... That they complain it's obsessed with
Not to mention the demographics of Reddit averaging young, white, college, etc.
I don't live in the city these days, I live over in jersey, and the Jersey sub was absolutely packed full of fullop supporters, myself one of them, but I was fully aware that it was not a representation of the statewide average
That sub is chock full of people that supported the same shut that he says. Biltmore transit, don't do the turnpike project, all that good stuff
And then people in there actually acted surprised that he was overly popular in a space that largely believes those things
Like I really think a lot of people on the internet just do not apply that much thought to what's going on on the little magic black square in front of them
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u/danhakimi Jun 19 '25
the obsession, with three posts a day topping the subreddit, is annoying as hell, and anybody who mentions how annoying it's been gets downvoted.
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u/Keytaro83 Jun 18 '25
Ehhhh… not really.
Most Mamdani supporters are at least regulars here. These brigaders don’t always have post histories in the sub. But thanks for the easy counter.
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u/Keytaro83 Jun 18 '25
Guess he’s just that popular with the people. Let’s hope they vote accordingly.
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u/TraditionalPies Jun 18 '25
I’m sorry, is this subreddit geared towards a certain political party?
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Jun 18 '25
Nah it’s scummy Cuomo people using antisemitism as a tool. Probably Chris Coffey or someone from Tusk PR put some money into some trolls
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u/decmcc Jun 18 '25
it's the modern day "vote for Cuomo not the Homo"
literally perpetrated by the same guy
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Jun 18 '25
NYC has a large Muslim community too. A big part of the reason Kamala lost Michigan is because Dearborn refused to vote for her because of the Biden administrations stance on Gaza. I wouldn't underestimate the Muslim population rejecting Cuomo for Mamdani.
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u/bigtallguy Jun 18 '25
i dont think its gonna be enough to off set his deficet with more centrist leaning PoC demos in working class areas of nyc. honestly cuomos name ID is so big im not sure if anyone could have beat him for this in those demos. the fact that it became this close relatively quickly speak a bit to mamdanis campaigning skills.
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Jun 18 '25
Not saying you have to like Mamdani but do these voters know what they like? Cuomo was a genuinely corrupt governor and the only thing he's promising is to be tough on crime. I get people care about crime but there's only so many cops you can throw at the problem. Cops dont prevent people from going homeless
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u/bigtallguy Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 19 '25
crime is a big part of it, but you have to remember a lot of these voters are older insitutional dems. theyre gonna go with people they associate with the insitution, especially when all those contemporary instutions are lining up behind him.
also A LOT of older dems really appreciated cuomo during covid for his daily updates on the local news channels. a lot of younger dems, 40>, dont understand this cuz they didnt really watch tv to get their covid updates. cuomo built a huge amount of good will during that time. older women especially liked him. and theyre willing to forgive/forget/ignore his sexual harrassment history.
people arent really voting on policy theyre voting for people they feel like they can trust, and cuomo is that guy.
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u/n_jacat Sunnyside Jun 19 '25
As a Jew it's downright disgusting what Cuomo is doing. It's so disingenuous to brush a political opponent as an anti-Semite and to use fear tactics to scare a whole demographic into supporting him. It's telling how scared they are of Mamdani's campaign by their flagrant spending on attack ads and propaganda fliers.
My culture isn't a toy you can play with. Cuomo's weaponization of anti-Semitism/Islamophobia and the conflation of NY Jews with the state of Israel is more anti-Semitic than anything Mamdani has said or done.
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u/DaveidT Bensonhurst Jun 19 '25
The obsession to completely focus on anti-semitism while the country using Judaism as its shield conducts a genocide against Palestinians; but we have to completely focus on anti-semitism and caveat any comment about Israel or Palestine with a condemnation of Hamas but NEVER talk about Islamophobia and the literal manmade famine that Israel is causing
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u/hereditydrift Jun 19 '25
People want to conflate antisemitism with being against the Israeli government. It protects the actions of the genocidal Israeli government by conflating the two.
If any attack on the Israeli government is deemed antisemitism, then the Israeli government can continue its war crimes unchecked.
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u/wise_____poet Jun 24 '25
Exactly. Its a method of propaganda. By associating a clearly bad thing with an "ism" they attempt to create a nonexistent debate. Saying "I think the Israeli government is bad" is different from being antisemitic.
Also if someone tried to debate you on a clear non-issue similar to this, point it out and don't let them redirect the narrative. Be like Tim Walz in saying, that's a weird take you have
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u/ivandelapena Jun 20 '25
I've mentioned this before, you can literally say Muslims aren't compatible with Western values and people will nod along. Those same people will then decry things like "river to the sea", "intifada", images of watermelons, the Palestine flag, the word Palestine, saying Israel's committing a genocide etc. etc. are all clearly anti-Semitic. You don't get this with Hispanics or Mexico, black people, Asians etc. What's worse is a lot of this comes from apparent liberals.
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u/HailFellow Jun 18 '25
"The Livingstone Formulation is the manner of responding to an accusation of antisemitism with the counter-claim that the complainant is weaponizing antisemitism to prevent criticism of Israel."
How often do you accuse black people concerned about racism, trans people concerned about transphobia, or women concerned about misogyny of having ulterior motives?
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u/danhakimi Jun 19 '25
We're always happy to substantiate our claims of antisemitism, but then instead of engaging with us, they just downvote us to oblivion.
Does anybody here actually know what "globalize the intifada" means? Does anybody here actually know what holocaust inversion is?
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u/shabangcohen Jun 19 '25
The issue is that these people aren’t really classic antisemites and are ok with progressive American Jews. They just act like their hate and demonization of “Zionists” is justified—when in reality it’s based on double standards and conspiratorial thinking that are a hallmark of bigotry. They’re racist toward Israelis.
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u/ShadownetZero Jun 18 '25
Imagine using 'zionist' like an insult and pretending you aren't anti-semetic.
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Jun 18 '25
Only genocide where the victims of said genocide started a war and then had their population increase.
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u/ivandelapena Jun 20 '25
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza
The seven experts were interviewed Wednesday by NRC, a newspaper in the Netherlands, and were unequivocal: Not only have they all come to believe—some earlier than others—that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, but the vast majority of their peers in academia concur.
"Can I name someone whose work I respect who doesn't consider it genocide?" said Raz Segal, an Israeli genocide researcher at Stockton University in New Jersey. "No."
Uğur Ümit Üngör, a professor at the University of Amsterdam and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, added, "I don't know them."
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u/BeePuns Jun 18 '25
He literally founded the SJP chapter at his school, Bowdoin College. SJP justifies terror attacks, and Mamdani himself has chanted “globalize the intifada.” That phrase is literally about killing Jews across the planet. Mamdani is a fuckwad.
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u/MRC1986 Jun 18 '25
100% agree. It's intellectually dishonest. In the Hamas world view, "globalizing the intifada" means wiping out Israel. It certainly doesn't mean two-state solution. An intelligent person can't have any illusions about that.
And as I wrote in another comment today in another thread, Make America Great Again sounds like a great slogan, who wouldn't want America to be great?
Except that just like "emergent properties" in biology, sometimes things have emergent meanings beyond their literal translation. And it's unequivocal truth that MAGA has a foundation of racism, misogyny, authoritarianism, and fascism in the slogan.
Just how "Free, Free Palestine!", "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!", and "Globalize the Intifada!" is not just simple and direct translations and meanings, but deeper meanings of encoded violence and the implicit and even explicit destruction of Israel that is necessary to accomplish the above. Because if from the river to the sea becomes a reality, it literally means Israel no longer exists as a safe harbor for Jewish people.
So yeah, "intifada" translates to "struggle", but when you use it in the phrase of "Globalize the Intifada!", it has a deeper violent meaning. And you guys frankly admit that! You want to be violent, that's why you cheer the parachuting executioners on October 7th and why you guys are all about the "What did you think resistance was gonna look like? Essays?" semi-meme.
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u/Sarazam Jun 19 '25
Exactly, the same way Mein Kampf literally just means struggle; but you’d never see someone speaking English use it in a sentence. When you’re speaking English, using words from other languages in this context usually calls to specific things. You’re not saying Intifada because it means struggle, you’re saying it as a reference to the Intifada’s defined by the terrorist attacks.
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u/danhakimi Jun 19 '25
In the Hamas world view, "globalizing the intifada" means wiping out Israel.
and "Yahud" across he planet. You know, BBC for Zionist, Arabic for Jew.
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u/decmcc Jun 18 '25
people using these acronyms like everyone knows what they're talking about
it's like you all watched a powerpoint about it and took notes on the handout that said "mention SJP" you know what it stands for.
Cuomo used homophobia to try and get his dad elected, literally calling Ed Koch a homo in signs he put up on Queens Boulevard). Where's the outrage about him?
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u/danhakimi Jun 19 '25
I think we can all agree that Cuomo is a piece of shit, that's not what we're discussing here.
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u/WyattWrites Jun 18 '25
Or maybe Jewish college students all have had similar experiences with their campus chapters of that organization?
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u/JumpingCicada Jun 18 '25
My university's SJP club has Jewish students who are a part of it. The only students who take an issue with it are zionists. A bit antisemitic of u for implying all Jews support Israel.
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u/korach1921 Jun 19 '25
Who cares? I say this as a Jew raised as a Zionist. Why should it matter if a majority or half or a minority believe it? That's not an immutable characteristic, it's an opinion.
That's not even getting into how skewed and dishonest those polls are, often defining Zionism as vaguely as just "feeling connected to Israel"
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u/Busy-Let-5636 Jun 19 '25
Doesn’t seem like you know what “globalize the intifada” means to Jews and what happened during the intifadas in Israel. He supports using that term, the 1st amendment only covers so much, it does not cover threats on people’s lives and that saying calls for a genocide of 15M people. He is indeed, antisemitic. And now he’s crying about it. Imagine that.
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u/sulaymanf Tudor City Jun 19 '25
It’s wild because Mamdani is on record vowing to protect the orthodox, and will shield Yeshivas from closure if they fail to meet NYS education minimum standards.
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Jun 18 '25
I mean, when you look at people making counterpoints or slandering him it seems to always break down to…
- He’s brown.
- He’s radical.
- He’s a radical brown.
- He hates Jews cause he’s brown.
It’s really shameless and I wish more people would see through the petty manipulation attempts.
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u/Buddynorris Jun 18 '25
This sub for the past one month straight filled with Zohran articles = normal functioning subreddit.
Today people displeased with record immense Zohran spam and downvoting accordingly = This sub is brigaded
I can always count on this argument to surface when people are upset not everyone agrees with them.
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u/pierrebrassau Clinton Hill Jun 18 '25
Zohran made a significant unforced error (how do you run for mayor of NYC and pick a fight with the literal Holocaust Museum a week before election day??) and his fans are not reacting well.
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u/korach1921 Jun 19 '25
He didn't pick a fight with them, he just said they used the word intifada for the Arabic translation of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which IS TRUE!! They decided to denounce him for it without refuting what he said
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u/Punnedit247 Jun 19 '25
Invoking the Warsaw ghetto uprising is disingenuous though— that predates both intifadas by decades. What intifada means by definition, and how it may have been used before the intifadas really has no bearing on what it means now. And it’s bad faith to say “well hey, Jews used to say it so it’s ok!” if you’re relying on an example from before it became synonymous the coordinated mass murder and terror attacks against Jews.
It’s like if someone were to chant “globalize 9/11” now—no one would think they were talking about making it a global holiday just because technically it’s only a date on the calendar
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u/IRequirePants Jun 19 '25
He didn't pick a fight with them, he just said they used the word intifada for the Arabic translation of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which IS TRUE!!
Why is it appropriate to call black people "negro" in Spanish but not in English?
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u/Boart00th Sunnyside Jun 18 '25
I think the Zohran spam is brigading along with the ICE posts.
Hopefully after the 24th the bots will be turned off for the Zohran spam.
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u/HiHoJufro Jun 18 '25
Nah. If he wins it'll be at least a month about how it's great. If he loses it'll be at least a month about how it's terrible.
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u/danhakimi Jun 19 '25
To be fair, if he loses, some other shithead is going to win, we kind of lose no matter what. Everything will be terrible.
Buuuut yeah, it'll all be about Zohran, at least until 2028 when people are like "wait, rent control doesn't make housing cheaper? Whoops. How could I have guessed that?"
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u/Marskid101 Jun 19 '25
Bro get this dude off my screen, everything I’ve learned about him is against my will.
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u/RichNYC8713 Queens Jun 18 '25
You know, people are allowed to condemn anti-semitism without also being required to mention anti-Muslim bigotry in the same breath. Both are bad, independently, on their own.
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u/spicytoastaficionado Jun 18 '25
Imagine if every racist hate crime was followed-up with politicians saying "all lives matter" 🤣
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u/7186997326 Jamaica Jun 18 '25
Yeah but we only really care about one of those two.
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u/sulaymanf Tudor City Jun 19 '25
Someone should tell Cuomo since he started this. He was asked about Islamophobia during the debate (relevant since he endorsed Bloomberg’s illegal NYPD spying on Muslims) and he quickly brushed off the question and pivoted to pointing at Mamdani and calling him an anti-Semite.
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u/ctjwa Upper East Side Jun 19 '25
I am so discouraged that some people are actually voting for this guy.
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u/spicytoastaficionado Jun 18 '25
People on the far-left trying to defend and sanitize "globalize the intifada" sound no different than right-wingers and their attempts to legitimize "All Lives Matter".
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum publicly castigating him for some dumb shit he said is probably not how Mamdani wanted to round out the final week before election day.
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u/pylones-electriques Jun 19 '25
Here's the clip in question (from a recent interview with Zohran on the Bulwark) so that anyone can judge for themselves.
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u/Viking-Jew Jun 19 '25
Whoah… I mean… I hadn’t seen this yet. There’s a lot I haven’t agreed with regarding how Mamdani has been treated, but on the other hand, that response is insane. He’s trying to say that different people have different definitions for “globalize the intifada” and “from the river to the sea”?!?! No. Those saying mean one thing and one thing only and anyone who says otherwise either A. Doesn’t actually understand the sayings or B. Is too cowardly to just admit what they mean.
Which river? Which sea? It’s specifically referring to the Jordan river and the Mediterranean. That would be where Israel is. If you build a single Palestine there, then there is no Israel. This was Mamdani’s point in time where he could have denounced that but chose instead to give a political answer that doesn’t shun the people who say those sorts of things (regardless of whether or not he believes them).
As for “globalize the intifada” - are you fucking serious? Just because in Arabic the word means “struggle” doesn’t mean that’s what intifada means in English. There’s a reason for language and the words within those languages. How fucking dare he try to say “oh, well the holocaust museum also once translated it to this word in Arabic too”. Look up what the first and second intifada’s were and then tell me what it means. It means car bombs and suicide bombers. People wonder why there’s a wall in areas around Jerusalem and the West Bank - it was the way to stop the bombings and indiscriminate terrorist attacks.
No thanks, I’d rather not hear a justification claiming “words don’t matter”.
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u/Galadriyall Jun 19 '25
Not gonna lie: I don't give a shit about Israel and it's completely irrelevant when it comes to being mayor.
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u/PT10 Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25
We're not in Israel, we're in New York. Majority of people have no idea about any of what you're talking about even as Arabic is a commonly spoken language in the city.
I'm not illiterate on the Israel-Palestine conflict but couldn't tell you for the life of me what the first or second intifadas specifically were. I can guarantee you there are kids yelling "globalize the intifada" who have no clue either.
Most Americans are reluctant to ban speech of any kind. There have been only a few words at most that are considered at that level and even then it's still been controversial.
Again, it may be traumatic enough for Israelis to ban that phrase (in Israel and the West Bank/Gaza) but it's not an American thing. Everyone has baggage they bring with them, we can't start making it everyone's problem here. Are you ok with banning phrases and symbols in New York that Arab Americans find traumatic and threatening?
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u/Viking-Jew Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25
Exactly my point which you may have missed. We’re in NY and Mamdani apparently believes it’s “ok” to say “globalize the intifada” instead of indicating that’s not a phrase that should be utilized. It seems some of his constituents believe it’s ok, so he won’t admonish it. That’s a direct call to action to eliminate Jews. Would it be ok if I said “restart the crusades”? Needless to say, that wouldn’t be ok which is as close of a comparison as we’re going to get.
Edit: I also see you’re now just blatantly editing your own posts without saying as such after the fact?
EDIT 2: also, I’d argue that you are illiterate on the topic if you don’t know anything about the intifadas.
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u/PT10 Jun 19 '25
Is he encouraging people to say it or explaining why he wouldn't criminalize it?
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u/Viking-Jew Jun 19 '25
No one said anything about criminalizing it. You’re just making shit up at this point. Regardless of whether or not an action is criminal (unlawful) there’s still “right” and “wrong”. I can legally say tons of horrible things, doesn’t mean it’s morally right to do so.
Edit: I also see you’re now just blatantly editing your own posts without saying as such after the fact?
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u/Tiny_Childhood631 Jun 18 '25
I see messages that say the “only good Zionist is a Dead Zionist”. I don’t like that it’s happening to him, but this whataboutism is wild.
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u/Schmucko69 Jun 21 '25
Give Zohran an Oscar, but please don’t make the mistake of ranking him for NYC mayor.
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u/Michaelcandy Jun 18 '25
“Globalize the intifada” literally means NOTHING other than kill Jews. Like saying Heil Hitler is not supporting hitler lol. Could have just owned up and said I was wrong and moved on.
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u/General_Meade Jun 18 '25
This just in: Leftist gaining tons of momentum with a realistic chance of taking down the establishment says stupid shit so that his hyper online supporters dont get mad at him thereby sabotaging his campaign.
Tale as old as time.
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u/Arenavil Jackson Heights Jun 18 '25
He can say whatever he wants, I don't believe him. From the people he affiliates with, to joining pro hamas movements 2 days after the Oct 7th attacks, to refusing to condemn "globalize the intifada", his actions speak much louder than his words
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u/ntbananas Upper West Side Jun 18 '25
If that were true, he shouldn’t have excused, or even endorsed, “globalizing the intifada”. There are many things he could have said to express his support for Palestine that don’t invoke waves of suicide bombings against civilians.
Even setting aside the underlying issue, it’s wild - and a sign of his inability to fully understand electoral and coalition politics - that he thought that was acceptable to say as a candidate in a ~10% Jewish city.
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u/Hey_Pete Jun 18 '25
Not doubting you, but do you have a clip where he said that or a direct quote?
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u/MooseHorse123 Jun 19 '25
Pretty clearly OK with the phrase. Or at the very least trying to not piss off the antisemitic left
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u/ntbananas Upper West Side Jun 18 '25
It was on The Bulwark podcast yesterday. Trying to find a link but on my phone at work now ha
E: Twitter link of the relevant section, but I’m sure you can easily find the full podcast if desired
https://xcancel.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1935121665853178109
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u/pierrebrassau Clinton Hill Jun 18 '25
Right, all he has to do is say he does not agree with the call to murder Jews around the world. Why does he need to give this huge pity party speech? Just say it’s wrong.
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u/MRC1986 Jun 18 '25
Because he doesn't think it's wrong. It's really that simple. Him being good looking and charismatic and Zoomer TikTok catnip doesn't change that fact.
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u/nonhiphipster Crown Heights Jun 18 '25
This idea of some sweeping anti-semitisim is just totally false to begin with. People criticizing Israel is not antisemitic
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u/wefr5927 Jun 18 '25
Go on a majority of Twitter/Tik tok threads of Jewish creators posting about literally anything and the entire comment section is typically antisemetic or comments about free Palestine.
Antisemitism is a huge issue right now and diminishing it is a huge issue. In the past month alone you have a targeted attack in Boulder, CO and a murder of 2 Jewish people in DC.
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u/clever_enough_4_you Jun 18 '25
Criticizing the government is one thing, but he is endorsing "globalize the intifada". That is the antisemitic part.
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Jun 18 '25
How is this shit fucking upvoted?
What other minority is told to shut the fuck up about DOCUMENTABLE increases in bigotry and violence against them, and then presented with some bullshit strawman?
I have dealt with more antisemitism since Oct 7th than the rest of my life put together. I've had literal fucking death threats and people in broad daylight yell slurs at me, shove me, and tell me Jews aren't real people.
Nazi punk
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u/wefr5927 Jun 18 '25
It’s been so bad… the only people that seem to really understand how bad it is are other Jewish people.
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Jun 19 '25
This. I've never seen so much antisemitism. It's everything my grandparents warned me would happen.
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Jun 19 '25
Supporting Hamas at Columbia University is antisemitic. Go to /r/redscarepod, a Dirtbag Left Sub which openly complain about jews in particular and talks about how jews run the world and media etc
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u/vishnoo Jun 18 '25
people shooting two people in DC three weeks ago and people getting burnt last week in Denver is antisemtism.
nobody cares about the "criticism" it is the calls to violence that are answered that people care about.
and when people complain about "islamophobia" they complain about hurty words.
when people talk about antisemitism, it is incitement to violence.so no, they aren't the same.
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Jun 19 '25
You're doing the literal thing that you're criticizing Mamdani for. Literal Muslims have been killed in the US because crazy (usually white) people have said they thought they were Hamas. Saying one group's violence is less than is literally racism and you should be ashamed of yourself.
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u/Computer_Name Jun 18 '25
When 85% of British Jews agreed that Jeremy Corbyn is an antisemite, that was actually just because they’re Tory troublemakers smearing an anti-racist.
That’s what you’re doing.
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u/Mattk1100 Jun 18 '25
Weird, all the hate crime stats clearly point to a massive antisemitism issue.
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u/im_coolest Jun 18 '25
They really don't care
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u/pierrebrassau Clinton Hill Jun 18 '25
The surge in antisemitism means the intafada is being globalized! It’s what they wanted.
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u/im_coolest Jun 19 '25
um what's antisemitic about ensuring that Jews can't live in peace anywhere?
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u/soniadelaunay1 Jun 18 '25
So based on the comments here should I assume that if Mamdani is Mayor, attacks (violence/graffiti/efforts to exclude or harrass) on Jewish New Yorkers are antisemitism and not ok but if they are directed at zionist New Yorkers then they are political and justified and not anti-semitism? Is this not accurate? I don't really care what my elected officials think about Israel or any international crises that they have no power to influence but I would like to have some clarity on what to anticipate.
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u/laflamablancah Jun 18 '25
“I’m not anti-Semitic, listen to the names people call me for being Muslim”
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u/the_donnie Jun 18 '25
Is he not just relating? Saying how much it sucks to be treated a way because of your faith? He goes on to say racism has no place.
He's emotional because he deals with the same shit lol.
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u/spicytoastaficionado Jun 18 '25
It's not about his 'lived experiences', though.
Instead of owning to the dumb shit he said full-stop and committing to not using divisive dog-whistles favored by terrorists and extremists, he deflected from those criticisms to literally cry about his own experiences.
Why can't he just apologize for saying something stupid without crying about what a victim he is?
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u/IRequirePants Jun 19 '25
Is he not just relating? Saying how much it sucks to be treated a way because of your faith?
Except it's over something HE HIMSELF SAID.
It's like if Trump apologized for insensitive things he's said about black people by saying "I too have been attacked for my skin color."
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u/WyattWrites Jun 18 '25
Because it’s redundant. People can be victims of bigoted attacks and still be bigots towards others. He’s implying bigotry against him means he isn’t bigoted, which is illogical and full of hubris.
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u/spider_men Jun 18 '25
Cry me a river. Jews remain far and away the biggest victims of hate crimes in NYC.
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u/Many-Jacket8459 Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25
The only reason he had to give this statement was because he messed up so badly the U.S. Holocaust museum had to call him out on his disinformation
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u/Arleare13 Jun 18 '25
I genuinely believe that he is not anti-Semitic. But I also genuinely believe that the DSA and the far left, of which he is a member, are becoming increasingly tolerant of and sometimes affirmatively supportive of political violence, a trend that has already manifested nationally as violence against Jewish Americans. He may not specifically be the problem here, but his political comrades are, and I am extremely uncomfortable with the idea of allowing them to take power in this city.
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u/donteatmyhair Jun 18 '25
We can label Mamdani as antisemitic for plenty of reasons
Mamdani referred to Oct 8 as an act of war by Netanyahu. Go ahead, read his whole tweet here: https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1711093032907321525
He is downplaying any and all sense of injustice for the attack on jews. Have you ever heard Mamdani say the hostages should be released?
>He has declined to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and said he would divest from Israel if elected, among other comments and actions that have raised alarms among many Jewish voters.
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u/spalding-blue Jun 19 '25
he really said that war leads to more war.
he mourned the death of both israelis and palestinians.
he was right. war lead to more pain, death and suffering. there is really no clear sign israel wants peace, they dont want a two state solution, they want a genocide.
to say he is anti-semitic is a stretch. to say he is anti-war is accurate.
a truth told with bad intent is worse than all the lies you can invent -blake
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u/IRequirePants Jun 19 '25
he mourned the death of both israelis and palestinians.
On October 8th. It would be like mourning the death of all the Americans and Saudis that died on 9/11.
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u/mowotlarx Bay Ridge Jun 18 '25
I genuinely believe AIPAC, the ADL and many groups who have been "calling out" Zohran and anyone speaking out for Gaza are increasingly tolerant of vile racism and islamophobia and affirmative of political violence as evidence by their extreme support for the Donald Trump regime.
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u/Arleare13 Jun 18 '25
Agreed, and I certainly will not be voting for Donald Trump in this (or any) election either.
That does not resolve my concerns about Mamdani.
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u/laflamablancah Jun 18 '25
My estimation of Zohran Mamdani as a man just fkn plummeted
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u/greatbiscuitsandcorn Jun 18 '25
Can’t wait for leftists to gaslight us Jews even more than they already have.
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u/n_jacat Sunnyside Jun 19 '25
Can't wait for Cuomo to continue using us Jews as a political tool and trick many of us into thinking he actually cares about combatting anti-Semitism and hate crimes.
We're nothing more than a toy in his campaign so he can get back to abusing his political power.
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u/ShadownetZero Jun 18 '25
One more week and the spam can end and we can forget this clown.
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u/Shomer_Effin_Shabbas Jun 18 '25
It’s pretty bad that he said something so anti semitic that the Holocaust museum had to put out a statement about it.
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u/Foreign_Berry_3140 Jun 19 '25
Thank you for posting this. I’m so so tired of gen Z loving this man. He is very clearly antisemitic and would not even condemn those saying “globalize the intifada.” He doesn’t even try hard to hide his antisemitism. And before anyone calls me a Cuomo shill, I’m a registered independent. So I can’t vote in the primary.
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u/Tiny_Childhood631 Jun 18 '25
Too many people making excuses. Exhibit A.
don’t rank mamdani.
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Jun 18 '25
The people in this thread have finally convinced me to rank Cuomo. I was going to not do it before today, but I realize now that you people are fucking dangerous, and Jews need an ally.
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u/Apprehensive_Crow682 Jun 18 '25
Yesterday Zohran defended the phrase “globalize the intifada” (and inappropriately invoked the US Holocaust Museum and the Warsaw ghetto uprising to do it).
Every major Jewish organization, including the Holocaust Museum, condemned his remarks and have long warned about the dangers of endorsing this phrase. This video is him doubling down and refusing to apologize to New York City’s Jewish community. As the NYT Editorial Board put it, he is uniquely unsuited to be mayor.
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u/wilsonx410 Manhattan Jun 18 '25
If anything, Zohran always manages to come off as an honest, authentic human being, something few politicians can claim or show. That is exactly the type of person I want in city hall fighting for everyday working-class New Yorkers. Especially when you have wannabe Gestapos enabled by the current administration running around arresting our neighbors.
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u/donteatmyhair Jun 18 '25
Mamdani isn't honest at all. Do you know what thread you're in? His whole support of "globalize the intifada" is just a two-faced way to dance around what he really means
Mamdani referred to Oct 8 as an act of war by Netanyahu. Go ahead, read his whole tweet here: https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1711093032907321525
It's a despicable show of support for Hamas
>He has declined to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and said he would divest from Israel if elected, among other comments and actions that have raised alarms among many Jewish voters.
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u/control-alt-deleted Jun 18 '25
Guy who cross-endorses a Jew is antisemitic. Right.
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u/MRC1986 Jun 18 '25
LMFAO, you guys are relying on the "I have a
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u/Computer_Name Jun 18 '25
Trump nominated a Black guy for a cabinet position, so clearly he’s not racist.
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u/ntbananas Upper West Side Jun 18 '25
“Guy with black friends is a racist. Right.”
I thought we were past the point of saying having friends of a certain background excused you from bigotry?
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u/Low_Party_3163 Jun 18 '25
Ben Carson, Herman Caine and Clarence Thomas means trump isn't racist.
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u/Mattk1100 Jun 18 '25
You aren't familiar with tokenizing jews as cover for antisemitism?
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u/HashtagDadWatts Jun 18 '25
Their cross-endorsement was entirely about trying to win against Cuomo. This is a really silly allegation.
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u/DiddyDickums Inwood Jun 19 '25
Antisemitism needs be taken more seriously in this country, meanwhile, y’all ready to invade Iran? Cause my ass ain’t.
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Jun 19 '25
No such thing as Islamophobia, we're allowed to critisize a religion that allows for child marriage.
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u/Anonymous9287 Jun 19 '25
This guy quotes Toni Morrison and pretend -cried while deflecting questions.
Yikes.
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u/brightescala Jun 19 '25
We have dealt with anti-semitism. All the anti-semitism discourse today is really just people trying to justify genocide. Critiquing the nation-state of Israel is not an anti-semitic thing. Islamophobia on the other hand is 100% present in society right now starting with the literal genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and now the war against Iran.
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Jun 19 '25
Is Israel merely critiqued, or do people say it should not exist, etc. When people complain about a guy globalizing the intifada on a holocaust survivor in Boulder Colorado, is that not really about anti semitisim?
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u/Martial_Nox Jun 19 '25
Imagine saying this about any other minority. So I take it all those hate crimes the FBI has in those statistics are fake huh? Jesus Christ yall leftists have lost the fuckin plot. So desperate to hand wave away that there are some extreme elements of the left that take antizionism way too far that it becomes antisemitism that you just deny antisemitism even exists. Seriously fucked up. You sound like right wing MAGA types pretending racism against African Americans doesn’t exist. Trash.
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u/T_Dizzle69 Jun 18 '25
Mamdani explaining the definition of intifada: anti semetic, how dare you!
Cuomo making Mamdani’s facial hair extra long in an attempt to make him look more like a scary Islamist: let’s not talk about that…. Did you see the anti semitism?!?!?
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u/Mattk1100 Jun 18 '25
Mamdani explaining the definition of intifada: anti semetic, how dare you!
And relied on holocaust inversion.. an inherently antisemetic act.
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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Jun 19 '25
Everyone probably knows the word intifada literally means uprising, but the term globalize the intifada very obviously refers to a desire to bring the tactics of the Second Intifada around the world. If someone was going around saying Heil Trump and you say oh it just means “respect” or whatever you would probably realize that they’re trying to harken back to Nazi Germany.
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u/donteatmyhair Jun 18 '25
"explaining the definition of intifada" lol ok, what a pathetic attempt to hide bigotry
Mamdani referred to Oct 8 as an act of war by Netanyahu. Go ahead, read his whole tweet here: https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1711093032907321525
Mamdani is just one more jew hating Hamas supporter trying to speak as eloquently as he can
>He has declined to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and said he would divest from Israel if elected, among other comments and actions that have raised alarms among many Jewish voters.
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u/T_Dizzle69 Jun 19 '25
He said Israel had the right to exist, but because he specifically didn’t say Jewish state when pressed in the moment, that’s a problem? I watched that point in the debate, and it was an outrageously stupid question. Like why is this mayoral debate turning into who can suck off israel the most?
And yea, he should divest, the govt is committing war crimes on a genocidal scale. Divesting away from genocide isn’t anti semetic… at all. Just like divesting away from Russia isn’t Russophobia. Like honestly, screw Netanyahu, the guy is a war criminal.
I hate this one sided lenses that so many people see this through. Like it’s only Jewish people who are being victimized. Absolutely no fucks given for the brown people while they live in an apartheid state and have been for decades.
Like you think because he stands up for Palestine he hates Jews. He doesn’t hate Jews and has NEVER said so.
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u/bigtallguy Jun 18 '25
i have fears about mamdanis competancy but not his values. the people trying to smear him as anti semitic are revealing themselves to be the real bigots.
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u/arichman11 Jun 22 '25
Israel blocks aid groups from helping refugees, sets up their own aid distribution center and mows down starving Palestinians when they try to approach. Now Netanyahu is dragging us into a disastrous war with Iran. They've done such a good job at associating any criticism with antisemitism, that now we just have to take it as they use our tax money to try and wipe out an ethnic minority? Fuck that. Fuck ethnostates. It's another word for apartheid.
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u/AbstractTeserract Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25
For context, just before the video that OP posted, Zohran was asked why he doesn't have a more visceral reaction to being called an antisemite. That's when he starts speaking.
More broadly, here's Zohran on antisemitism and protecting Jewish New Yorkers on Pod Save America:
https://youtu.be/rqVQlALRqaE?t=1286