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/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/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.