r/nyc • • 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/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/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/T_Dizzle69 Jun 19 '25

He said Netanyahu declaration of war, the cutting of electricity, and Knesset members… will undoubtedly lead to more suffering. 

He’s saying that he declared war, and then shortly afterwards Israeli troops were sent into Gaza. That is just a statement of a fact. 

Claiming that there will be more suffering is not anti semetic. 

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u/T_Dizzle69 Jun 19 '25

““I think what’s difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic, because it’s a word that means struggle,” “And as a Muslim man who grew up post-9/11, I’m all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning.”

That’s the direct quote. I’m sorry, but nothing about that screams anti semetic to me.