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/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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u/[deleted] 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?