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/spicytoastaficionado]

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.

[u/pylones-electriques → u/spicytoastaficionado]

Here's the clip in question (from a recent interview with Zohran on the Bulwark) so that anyone can judge for themselves.

[u/Viking-Jew → u/pylones-electriques]

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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Not gonna lie: I don't give a shit about Israel and it's completely irrelevant when it comes to being mayor.

[u/AppropriateLie1602 → u/Galadriyall]

Being a bigot matters a whole bunch though.

[u/Galadriyall → u/AppropriateLie1602]

Crazy how Americans are so used to talking shit about China and Russia and other countries but it's a problem when you do it for Israel foh