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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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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

My generation grew up in the US being condescendingly laughed at by older more cynical people saying over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again that Young People Never Vote So Stop Trying To Be Optimistic And Push For Better Things.

Now Cuomo is the voice of the conservative element of the boomer generation that is deluded into thinking they are progressive or give a shit about younger people in any way and probably don't even consider themselves Republicans (though everything that comes out of their mouth sounds Republican-lite if not downright brainwormed authoritarian apologist).

The most jewish city on earth besides Tel Aviv has RESOUNDINGLY spoken against the genocide of Palestinians. It is that simple.

Andrew Cuomo's words are anti-democratic, they are anti-jewish in the sense that they vividly misrepresent the majority will of jews living in New York City and the US in general, Andrew Cuomo's words speak to a cancerous rot that is now exploded into the open in the US Colonial Empire's necessary conflation of Israel with Judaism.

Silicon Valley, the Finance Industry of the US and big business in the US in general has utterly consolidated around profiting off of the Palestinian Genocide especially as a means of delaying the popping of the AI bubble by using it as a means to obscure complicity in actors conducting the Palestinian Genocide. Blood is on all of our hands and in order to escape that horrific realization centrists will dive into the simple, relieving comfort of anti-semitism, conservatives that are PRETENDING to be the friends of jews right now are counting on it.

This is necessary for the next step, which is escaping complicity with the now undeniable Palestinian Genocide by turning the rightwing violently anti-semitic en masse through introducing a time tested "the Jews betrayed us again by fooling us into committing genocide for them!!!!!!!".

Any Jews still on the side of Israel here are openly inviting an era of mass violence and subjugation of the jewish people, Netanyahu is COUNTING on that.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 7 points 3 days ago

Any Jews still on the side of Israel here are openly inviting an era of mass violence and subjugation of the jewish people

One only needs to look at the Middle East for a demonstration of that in action. Most Arab countries had Jewish populations in the tens or hundreds of thousands, but they were either intimidated into leaving or forcibly expelled during the 20th century as a misguided extension of anti-Zionism.