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Cuomo says key factor in his primary loss was Mamdani’s support from young, Jewish and pro-Palestinian voters (forward.com)

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“I would wager that in the primary, more than 50% of the Jewish people voted for Mamdani,” Cuomo told the crowd of around 450 at a breakfast event Sunday at the Hampton Synagogue.

He believed they were influenced by Mamdani’s appeal to younger and first-time voters who, Cuomo said, view criticism of Israel as opposing the policies of the Israeli government in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “They are pro-Palestinian, and they don’t consider it being anti-Israel,” he said.

“We have the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, and I was proud to be the strongest advocate,” Cuomo continued. “But many, especially younger people, don’t consider saying anti-Israel is different than being antisemitic.”

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Remember when the U.S. entered an antisemetic war in Afghanistan? Or when Trump launched those antisemetic strikes on Iran recently?

If those weren't anti-Semitism, I don't see how we could say Israel's actions of slaughtering other semites are bad, is anti semtic

[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I dont think Afghanistani or Persian ethnic people are semitic. Iraq would probably count but probably a majority of Muslims in the world aren't semitic.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

Oh Dari is Persian based isn't it, for some reason my brain was thinking semetic. Farsi and Arabic using the same alphabet for the most part ties them together in my head. But that doesn't mean they are close, clearly Spanish, Portuguese, and English use the same alphabet, but while Spanish and Portuguese or Italian are closer, English is much further. (Just a few letters are different)

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure neither Afghans nor (most) Iranians are semites. Non-Jewish Semitic peoples mostly inhabit what is now the Arab world.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

And the horn of Africa, although the term is obselete for modern usage, it only really applies to historical peoples.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people