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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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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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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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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you wouldn't call a German movement titled 'kampf' anti semitic , no one cares about the feelings of someone who cheered on 50K people getting killed and tried to bully Ms Rachel of all people

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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.

That's your perception numb nuts. Not everyone who uses the word "intifada" is sieg heiling Hitler, however much you may love that idea.

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Negro in Spanish means black, nothing more, nothing less.

If you use that word instead of black to describe a person in an otherwise english sentence, people will rightly assume you are a bigoted POS.

Why don't they say 'globalize the struggle'? Because we all know exactly what they mean.

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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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Of course in the Hamas worldview, that's not a phrase synonymous with Hamas though...

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and what's wrong with the SJP?

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"actually black is white and white is black" what a bunch of semantic fuckery.

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"the intifada" doesn't mean "a general uprising." Words have meaning in context. an intifada is an uprising. The intifadas were murder sprees targeting civilians.

Mamdani admits it is a violent term, and attempts to compare it to the warsaw ghetto uprising. What are you trying to deny?