Voters in the largest city in America are choosing a Democratic nominee for mayor via ranked-choice voting. The crowded field is led by former governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned from the state’s top office four years ago following sexual harassment allegations; state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, who snagged key endorsements from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York); Comptroller Brad Lander, who made headlines when he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at an immigration hearing last week; and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams.
This is a ranked-choice primary – only first-choice votes will be tabulated on election night. Final vote calculations will be released July 1 and updated weekly until all ballots are counted. Republican Curtis Sliwa is uncontested in his primary.
Palestine is a region, and when I say Palestinians I mean the people indigenous to that region, including those that stayed within the areas that are now under occupation by the state of Israel. That's why it's tricky to figure out which Christian Israelis are also Palestinians, and which ones moved into Occupied Palestine after the Nakba (or are descended from settlers). Obviously, trying to draw a hard line between "indigenous" and "settler" gets difficult (despite the Zionists' best efforts to segregate Israeli society as much as possible) after several generations.
Push a hasbarist into a corner and the historical revisionism starts to come out. Indigineity is not decided by who lived where in the beginning of time, it's decided by the dynamic between colonizer and the colonized. The Aztec empire colonized land that was later occupied by Spanish settlers; in the period of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the Aztecs and their descendants were considered indigenous because they were the ones being colonized. The Arab conquests and their contradictions are clearly not the contradictions of the Levant today, so we need to update our lens and see reality for what it is: there are indigenous people who were living peacefully in Palestine until 1948 (although Zionist settlers had started coming in during the British mandate, prior to the Nakba), then following a period of brutal ethnic cleansing (with its latest round in Gaza) the indigenous people of Palestine have been reduced to being second class citizens in a settler colony.