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“I’m not comfortable supporting any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else,” he explained. “Equality should be enshrined in every country in the world. That’s my belief.”

Mamdani’s refusal to endorse apartheid immediately generated vociferous backlash among the pro-Israel crowd.

“It’s more than problematic,” said Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis, told the New York Post. “Jews see this as a dividing line.

Fellow candidate Whitney Tilson said voters should be “concerned” about Mamdani’s position.

“The Orthodox Jewish community is not afraid enough,” Sam Berger, an Orthodox Queens state assemblyman and Cuomo-backer, told Jewish Insider. “While the public generally takes its time to pay attention, we do not have that luxury this year. After two antisemitic attacks in under two weeks echoing the same rhetoric we have persistently warned against from the No. 2 mayoral candidate, we need to vote like our lives depend on it.”

“Zohran Mamdani couldn’t even pretend he supports Israel’s right to exist as actually Israel: Bad as everyone was on stage at the first Democratic mayoral debate, he disqualifies himself with that stance alone,” declared the New York Post’s editorial board.

“Jewish lives will be at stake if this man is elected,” tweeted New York City Council member Inna Vernikov. “He’s going to enable antisemitism like this city has never seen. If he wins and TRUE principled conservatives don’t remain in the Council, violence will SKYROCKET. Don’t just watch it unfold. Act. VOTE!”

[–] AltMediaGuy@altmedia.house 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Asked about its planned operations against school buildings, a spokesperson said the IDF “operates exclusively on the grounds of military necessity and in strict accordance with international law”.

The spokesperson claimed that Hamas unlawfully “exploits schools” for military activities by “building military networks beneath and within schools … launching attacks towards IDF forces from them, and imprisoning hostages in them”.

They think they can just say this like a Jedi mind trick and get away with it, and sadly it has worked with mainstream media.

[–] AltMediaGuy@altmedia.house 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not a single dialysis patient is going to survive this genocide. They have no chance...

[–] AltMediaGuy@altmedia.house 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The idea that executive power needs to be checked by the legislative branch in order to push the country in a more pro-war direction, that the voting public absolutely does not want whether Republican or Democrat, is deeply ironic and perverse. I don't think the Founding Fathers intended for this situation to appear. It's sort of a 'reductio ad absurdum' of our political system.

[–] AltMediaGuy@altmedia.house 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

pictures aren't as compelling as photos? What are you talking about?

[–] AltMediaGuy@altmedia.house 6 points 5 days ago

There's also the images of Ward Jalal al-Sheikh Khalil directly in the article itself. She wasn't killed, but everyone else around her including her mother and two siblings died in the flames...

[–] AltMediaGuy@altmedia.house 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

We have images of Shaban al-Dalou being burned alive in his hospital bed

[–] AltMediaGuy@altmedia.house 14 points 1 week ago

you've never heard of Medium? It's a blog site, like Substack.

[–] AltMediaGuy@altmedia.house 5 points 1 week ago

In some ways it's too late. The present moment is not the moment when using the Holocaust to justify occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing became evil. It's been evil for the past 80 years. The present is just when it has become politically untenable.

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