Zohran Mamdani embraces countless lefty causes, but opposing Israel is — as he himself said on the campaign trail — “central to my identity.”
Believe him, judge him accordingly — and realize this isn’t about justice, but hate.
He may drop his calls to defund the NYPD or fall short in hiking taxes on the rich, but he’ll never stop targeting the Jewish state and vilifying all who support it.
Only on the topic of Israel and Palestine does Mamdani lose his grin, quit cocking his head and enter a grim space of steely hate.
It’s a lifelong obsession, soaked up at the knee of his father, a career “postcolonialist” academic.
Palestinian “liberation” (from Israel, not from the barbaric extremists of Hamas or the corruptocrats of Fatah) was a “driving force” for Zohran way back in his days at Bowdoin College, where he started a chapter of an anti-Israel club — the only time he has run anything.
In December 2023 remarks now resurfacing, Mamdani insisted the rest of us are just ignorant: Pro-Israel politicians’ “answers were written around 20, 30 years ago. They speak to a reality that does not exist,” he charged — as if the worldwide growth of antisemitism somehow made the Jewish state less necessary, rather than more.
Reality? Israel is an actual country of 10 million (including millions of Arabs!), whereas “Palestine” is an entity that has never existed, one nobody even imagined before Israel’s creation.
Democrats’ mayoral nominee also slammed Western supporters of Israel’s answer to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, atrocities as delusional, “explaining” that “for so many people, Israel is not a place, it is not a country. It’s an idea.”
Funny: That’s surely at least as true of him and his fellow anti-Israel obsessives the world over.
He’s not a Palestinian nor even an Arab, has never been to Israel and has no plans to go. Nor does he show anything like the concern for other oppressed Muslims, whether the Uighers in China or the Rohingyas in Burma.
Those peoples are clearly targeted for elimination by the governments that control their lands, whereas the Palestinian population has grown several times over in the decades that Israel’s supposedly been trying to genocide them.
This obsession isn’t about the oppressed: It’s about the Jews.
We understand that lefties the world over don’t consciously see that it’s about the Jews, but the double and triple standards allow for no other rational explanation.
That Mamdani dresses up this ancient hate in the latest jargon doesn’t make it, or him, any less despicable.
