A mayor who has increased funding by more than 800% to fight hate crimes amid rising antisemitism is being attacked for not sharing a stage with officials who have called for genocide and war crimes
Mayor Mamdani consistently sets and achieves his goals. He has the talent that the most effective leaders possess. He absolutely reads people well, and uses this gift to choose to hire the people who will succeed in the tasks they are responsible for.
He will continue to face not only harsh, unwarranted criticism, but blatant disrespect and xenophobia. Because he will continue to succeed, where all of his predecessors failed. What we students of history understand is that the person who succeeds, especially when they are the opposite of the accepted religion and ethnicity, will always be vilified, as the sacrificial lamb. Because hate runs so generationally deep, in the veins of the average ignorant, egregiously vacuous white man.
Mamdani will continue to succeed, but it will not convince the aforementioned buffoons to support him. It will simply embolden them to become more hateful and more violent.
Nothing in this country will ever change until we, collectively, end systemic racism and systemic wealth disparity. And, make quality education an accessible priority.
The corporate media question is always framed like a loyalty test: why didn’t Mamdani stand in the approved photo-op place and smile next to people calling starvation policy? The better question is why anyone committed to Jewish safety, Palestinian humanity, or basic moral hygiene would normalize officials who talk about civilians like disposable scenery. Declining to share a stage with extremists is not antisemitism. It is called having a spine, which apparently confuses journalists trained to treat every parade as sacred unless the wrong Muslim mayor skips it.
Great peace! Hope you don’t mind I quoted a small piece of it to share with someone desperately needed to hear it. You are the honest compass we need right now. The human rights abuses are abhorrent in this world. Where are th kind people. Where are th real humans to stop this. How in this world can ANYONE justify this horror.
But you see most Jews support Israel, not unconditionally and immorally. I'm a proud American and having an evil man as president doesn't mean our country needs to be destroyed, does it? And b/c I support American in spite of its flaws, does that make me immoral?
No, if you read it what I condemn is unconditional support for the Israeli government (as it is currently constituted). I support Israelis who do not support genocide. I don't support immoral cheerleaders for war crimes. I don't support the destruction of Israel or America. I do support the end of the Trump and Netanyahu regimes entirely.
Unconditional support for the Israeli government??!! Who gives unconditional support to ANY country?! You don't have different standards for the Jewish state, do you???
I can't imagine who you could possibly be talking about - in fact Israelis protest their government all the time.
I'm a Zionist. Like most of us I don't support every Israeli leader. What I support is Israel and its people's right to exist, and the Jewish people's right to self-determination like any other people. The fact that this basic right is treated as uniquely conditional for Jews should raise far more questions than it answers.
No, Mamdani's snub wasn't just a slight to people who support every action of the Israeli government – whoever they are. I don’t know any country who receives unconditional support, do you? And Israelis protest their government ALL the time.
It was a snub to countless Jews and Zionists across the political spectrum who view Israel's existence - not any particular government - as central to Jewish self-determination. Of course, not being Jewish nor knowing many Jews I realize you’re no expert in who we are. Please don't pretend otherwise; I'm certain you don't pretend an expert in any other minority.
Israelis protest all the time, while tens of thousands of Iranians were recently slaughtered, imprisoned, or brutalized for protesting their regime. Hundreds of thousands have now been killed in the war Russia started in a blatant land grab. China is committing a genocide against nearly a million Yghur Muslim. The silence is deafening.
I’m guessing there’s not much time left after the obsessive fixation on the world's one Jewish state, on that’s all of .002% of the world’s landmass, and 300X smaller than the rest of the Middle East?
As for "genocide," you may want to catch up with the news. After years of investigation and accusations, even the ICC's Chief Prosecutor acknowledged the evidentiary challenges in proving genocide.
Accusations aren’t evidence. Repeating the word endlessly doesn't make it true. Sorry!
And if there is no evidence of genocide, it's time for you to reconsider the Holocaust inversion that has become so fashionable - portraying Jews as Nazis and the Jewish state as the Third Reich. It hasn't advanced peace. It hasn't helped Palestinians. It has, however, fueled hostility toward Jews around the world.
Nope. It is the Israeli genocide against Palestinians which has fueled hostility toward the Israeli government around the world. Try to keep Jews separate from the current Israeli government. China's genocide, and that occurring in Africa, do not excuse Israel's.
Ah, so you DO know more than the ICC's own Chief Prosecutor, who recently acknowledged the evidentiary hurdles to proving genocide? Fascinating.
Genocide is a serious legal finding, not a slogan. Repeating the accusation doesn't make it true. Even if it does make you feel all warm inside to blame and shame the Jews using a Holocaust inversion. Still doesn't make it true.
And how about opening your eyes? If hostility were truly directed only at the Israeli government, Jews around the world wouldn't be facing harassment, vandalism, exclusion, and violence would they. Firebombing a synagogue in London actually doesn't help the Palestinians, nor does attacking Jews in NYC, or ramming a car into a Jewish preschool in the US.
Hundreds of thousands have died in Russia's war against Ukraine. Are Russians being targeted globally? Are Russian cultural institutions routinely attacked? No. Just only Jews are scapegoated for another country's behavior and its leader. Scapegoating Jews has a very, very long history.
The issue isn't criticism of a government. It's your obsessive fixation on the world's only Jewish state, the denial of Jewish self-determination afforded to every other people, and the demonization of Jews under the convenient label of "antizonism." Sorry to tell you, but we know that "Zionism" is simply the new way to say "Jew," now that "I hate Jews has fallen out of favor. Did you think we wouldn't notice???!!!
Pointing to other atrocities doesn't excuse anything. It simply exposes the glaring double standard you and so many others so obviously cling to. We see you.
Oh, gads, I wish you, Qasim Rashid, had won that election when you ran for Congress. Thank goodness for your voice here. So logical! (And moral!)
I was just talking about anti-Semitism with a Jewish friend. What is making people anti-Semitic is Jews insisting that city legislatures vote on the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which includes the criticism of Israel. It doesn't exclude freedom of speech! the supporters will say, only, what they don't say is that there are consequences: losing your job or getting suspended from college, or getting taken to a gulog.
What is increasing anti-Semitism is the millions of dollars AIPAC is spending defeating candidates who are for Medicare for All.
This is besides what my fellow Jews who are Israelis are doing in Gaza, Iran, and Lebanon.
I'm glad (and proud) to have made phone calls for both you and Mamdani. Also, in the election in CA, I voted for Butch Ware. But I'm not sure I'm brave enough to tell any of my Jewish relatives or friends.
Mayor Mamdani is doing his job while doing the right things; right-wingers and haters just don't get it. It's why they keep asking the same stupid ass questions.
I had to re-read the article to make sure I had not missed any reference to AIPAC. The second scan did not detect one. So the answer to why corporate media and certain elected officials continue to support the genocidal elements in Israel is the usual one. Money, specifically AIPAC money.
ADL has a long and mostly intact reputation for integrity in reporting antisemitism. I am not aware of anyone successfully tagging the ADL as liars, extremists or ultra zionists. I have no idea if the ADL is a major donor to any politically motivated group; all of which suggests they exist on a different wavelength than AIPAC. AIPAC seems to specialize in funding chaos, division, ill-will and hysteria. Cultivating the ugliest of Americans
I so appreciate your dedication to laying out the truth in its fullness and depth. If Congress were a more mature and conscientious gathering of true representatives of the highest aspirations and values of the people, I would encourage you to join them.
There is nothing to be said for ethnic cleansing. What is atrocious is the land of liberty and justice for all openly and unconditionally supporting Israel with a former president, Biden, proudly declaring himself a Zionist. What we see before our eyes is the purchase of the US by Israel via our corrupt political system. This is also testament to the power of the 1%, a disproportionate number being Zionists.
The good news is that support of Israel is collapsing in the US and this shows the power of we the people whose votes can always be victorious over money if we make it so. Credit for waking up Americans regarding Israel must go to the tens of thousands who have died in Gaza and the transparent service Trump offers to Israel shown by the pointless war with Iran. Each trip to the gas station is a reminder.
Mayor Mamdani consistently sets and achieves his goals. He has the talent that the most effective leaders possess. He absolutely reads people well, and uses this gift to choose to hire the people who will succeed in the tasks they are responsible for.
He will continue to face not only harsh, unwarranted criticism, but blatant disrespect and xenophobia. Because he will continue to succeed, where all of his predecessors failed. What we students of history understand is that the person who succeeds, especially when they are the opposite of the accepted religion and ethnicity, will always be vilified, as the sacrificial lamb. Because hate runs so generationally deep, in the veins of the average ignorant, egregiously vacuous white man.
Mamdani will continue to succeed, but it will not convince the aforementioned buffoons to support him. It will simply embolden them to become more hateful and more violent.
Nothing in this country will ever change until we, collectively, end systemic racism and systemic wealth disparity. And, make quality education an accessible priority.
Corp Media is Zionist controlled they do as their masters dictate
Way to go vomiting up one of the oldest Jew hate tropes there is!! Can't you at least be just a little more original?
Thank you for getting this out into the open. Hope Mamdani runs for president.
The corporate media question is always framed like a loyalty test: why didn’t Mamdani stand in the approved photo-op place and smile next to people calling starvation policy? The better question is why anyone committed to Jewish safety, Palestinian humanity, or basic moral hygiene would normalize officials who talk about civilians like disposable scenery. Declining to share a stage with extremists is not antisemitism. It is called having a spine, which apparently confuses journalists trained to treat every parade as sacred unless the wrong Muslim mayor skips it.
Great peace! Hope you don’t mind I quoted a small piece of it to share with someone desperately needed to hear it. You are the honest compass we need right now. The human rights abuses are abhorrent in this world. Where are th kind people. Where are th real humans to stop this. How in this world can ANYONE justify this horror.
As Schumer was literally dancing in the street with all of them.
many good points but it was still an insult to the Jewish community when he refused to attend the Salute to Israel parade
No, only to the community which supports the Israeli government unconditionally, and immorally.
But you see most Jews support Israel, not unconditionally and immorally. I'm a proud American and having an evil man as president doesn't mean our country needs to be destroyed, does it? And b/c I support American in spite of its flaws, does that make me immoral?
Different standards for the Jews. Always.
No, if you read it what I condemn is unconditional support for the Israeli government (as it is currently constituted). I support Israelis who do not support genocide. I don't support immoral cheerleaders for war crimes. I don't support the destruction of Israel or America. I do support the end of the Trump and Netanyahu regimes entirely.
Unconditional support for the Israeli government??!! Who gives unconditional support to ANY country?! You don't have different standards for the Jewish state, do you???
I can't imagine who you could possibly be talking about - in fact Israelis protest their government all the time.
I'm a Zionist. Like most of us I don't support every Israeli leader. What I support is Israel and its people's right to exist, and the Jewish people's right to self-determination like any other people. The fact that this basic right is treated as uniquely conditional for Jews should raise far more questions than it answers.
No, Mamdani's snub wasn't just a slight to people who support every action of the Israeli government – whoever they are. I don’t know any country who receives unconditional support, do you? And Israelis protest their government ALL the time.
It was a snub to countless Jews and Zionists across the political spectrum who view Israel's existence - not any particular government - as central to Jewish self-determination. Of course, not being Jewish nor knowing many Jews I realize you’re no expert in who we are. Please don't pretend otherwise; I'm certain you don't pretend an expert in any other minority.
Israelis protest all the time, while tens of thousands of Iranians were recently slaughtered, imprisoned, or brutalized for protesting their regime. Hundreds of thousands have now been killed in the war Russia started in a blatant land grab. China is committing a genocide against nearly a million Yghur Muslim. The silence is deafening.
I’m guessing there’s not much time left after the obsessive fixation on the world's one Jewish state, on that’s all of .002% of the world’s landmass, and 300X smaller than the rest of the Middle East?
As for "genocide," you may want to catch up with the news. After years of investigation and accusations, even the ICC's Chief Prosecutor acknowledged the evidentiary challenges in proving genocide.
Accusations aren’t evidence. Repeating the word endlessly doesn't make it true. Sorry!
And if there is no evidence of genocide, it's time for you to reconsider the Holocaust inversion that has become so fashionable - portraying Jews as Nazis and the Jewish state as the Third Reich. It hasn't advanced peace. It hasn't helped Palestinians. It has, however, fueled hostility toward Jews around the world.
Nope. It is the Israeli genocide against Palestinians which has fueled hostility toward the Israeli government around the world. Try to keep Jews separate from the current Israeli government. China's genocide, and that occurring in Africa, do not excuse Israel's.
Ah, so you DO know more than the ICC's own Chief Prosecutor, who recently acknowledged the evidentiary hurdles to proving genocide? Fascinating.
Genocide is a serious legal finding, not a slogan. Repeating the accusation doesn't make it true. Even if it does make you feel all warm inside to blame and shame the Jews using a Holocaust inversion. Still doesn't make it true.
And how about opening your eyes? If hostility were truly directed only at the Israeli government, Jews around the world wouldn't be facing harassment, vandalism, exclusion, and violence would they. Firebombing a synagogue in London actually doesn't help the Palestinians, nor does attacking Jews in NYC, or ramming a car into a Jewish preschool in the US.
Hundreds of thousands have died in Russia's war against Ukraine. Are Russians being targeted globally? Are Russian cultural institutions routinely attacked? No. Just only Jews are scapegoated for another country's behavior and its leader. Scapegoating Jews has a very, very long history.
The issue isn't criticism of a government. It's your obsessive fixation on the world's only Jewish state, the denial of Jewish self-determination afforded to every other people, and the demonization of Jews under the convenient label of "antizonism." Sorry to tell you, but we know that "Zionism" is simply the new way to say "Jew," now that "I hate Jews has fallen out of favor. Did you think we wouldn't notice???!!!
Pointing to other atrocities doesn't excuse anything. It simply exposes the glaring double standard you and so many others so obviously cling to. We see you.
I am not a Jew but my son-in-law and two grandsons are. They fully agree with what you have stated here and so do I.
This is SO GOOD Qasim! I love the way you break up the conflation. Thank you.
Oh, gads, I wish you, Qasim Rashid, had won that election when you ran for Congress. Thank goodness for your voice here. So logical! (And moral!)
I was just talking about anti-Semitism with a Jewish friend. What is making people anti-Semitic is Jews insisting that city legislatures vote on the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which includes the criticism of Israel. It doesn't exclude freedom of speech! the supporters will say, only, what they don't say is that there are consequences: losing your job or getting suspended from college, or getting taken to a gulog.
What is increasing anti-Semitism is the millions of dollars AIPAC is spending defeating candidates who are for Medicare for All.
This is besides what my fellow Jews who are Israelis are doing in Gaza, Iran, and Lebanon.
I'm glad (and proud) to have made phone calls for both you and Mamdani. Also, in the election in CA, I voted for Butch Ware. But I'm not sure I'm brave enough to tell any of my Jewish relatives or friends.
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Mayor Mamdani is doing his job while doing the right things; right-wingers and haters just don't get it. It's why they keep asking the same stupid ass questions.
Thank you for this clear and thoughtful explanation. Mayor Mamdani is a political leader to admire.
I had to re-read the article to make sure I had not missed any reference to AIPAC. The second scan did not detect one. So the answer to why corporate media and certain elected officials continue to support the genocidal elements in Israel is the usual one. Money, specifically AIPAC money.
ADL has a long and mostly intact reputation for integrity in reporting antisemitism. I am not aware of anyone successfully tagging the ADL as liars, extremists or ultra zionists. I have no idea if the ADL is a major donor to any politically motivated group; all of which suggests they exist on a different wavelength than AIPAC. AIPAC seems to specialize in funding chaos, division, ill-will and hysteria. Cultivating the ugliest of Americans
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wrong? some specificity would be helpful?
Thank you for another exceptional article.
I so appreciate your dedication to laying out the truth in its fullness and depth. If Congress were a more mature and conscientious gathering of true representatives of the highest aspirations and values of the people, I would encourage you to join them.
There is nothing to be said for ethnic cleansing. What is atrocious is the land of liberty and justice for all openly and unconditionally supporting Israel with a former president, Biden, proudly declaring himself a Zionist. What we see before our eyes is the purchase of the US by Israel via our corrupt political system. This is also testament to the power of the 1%, a disproportionate number being Zionists.
The good news is that support of Israel is collapsing in the US and this shows the power of we the people whose votes can always be victorious over money if we make it so. Credit for waking up Americans regarding Israel must go to the tens of thousands who have died in Gaza and the transparent service Trump offers to Israel shown by the pointless war with Iran. Each trip to the gas station is a reminder.