Zohran Mamdani and the Normalization of Jew Hatred and Jihad

I don’t have a link for this. The intrepid Paul Schnee sent this on after seeing it on his Facebook page. It’s very good.

Related: ‘Zohran Mamdani intern calls for JIHAD against America‘

THE HARBINGER – ZOHRAN MAMDANI AND THE NORMALIZATION OF JEW-HATRED

By Sam Abady:

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Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda which once had a large expatriate Indian community. They were expelled by Idi Amin in August 1972.

Mamdani, like Amin, is Muslim. His critics on the right attack him for that fact alone. This is unacceptable. It reduces all Muslims to a one-size-fits-all status. There is nothing wrong with having a Muslim mayor — even in America’s most Jewish city. It depends entirely on his ideology and the Muslim groups he embraces.

A meme circulated on social media depicts the Statue of Liberty covered in a burqa after Mamdani won the Democratic primary. He is not an ideological Islamist per se. Instead, he embraces Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. as part of the “progressive” red-green alliance to advance the war on the Jews and Jewish state. Progressives are the connective tissue between terrorist ideology and the new Democratic Party. Mamdani and his Democratic Socialists are not the warhead of antisemitism, but instead, its delivery system. He embraces the pro-terror slogans of those who seek to wipe out the Jews.

Mamdani founded the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at his alma mater, Bowdoin College. SJP is a Hamas front group. Hamas is an Islamist group that seeks the genocide of Jews the world over. Newspapers in India report that Pakistan’s ISI security service provided social media support for Mamdani’s campaign.

Mamdani also openly supports Marwan Bargouti’s BDS (Boycott, Diverst, Sanction) movement which seeks the elimination of Israel. Mamdani spouts the slogans of the anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist, Israel-bashing “globalize the intifada” radical left. For two years, we’ve watched his ilk rampage across college campuses in pursuant of the tentifada jihad. They are the new Hitlerjungen who worship the Arab Fuhrers, Yasser Arafat, Yahya Sinwar, Hassan Nasrallah, et al. as great liberators, just as German youth worshipped Hitler as the great liberator of Germany. Mamdani energized them on Tik Tok for his campaign.

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It began right after October 7, 2023, when Mamdani blamed Israelis for Arab atrocities against them. He not only refused to condemn Hamas atrocities and Hezbollah’s October 8th rocket attack on Jewish civilians, he blamed the Jews, rationalizing Palestinian and Lebanese terrorism was caused by “the occupation” and stressed the need to “dismantle apartheid,” a memetic statement for “dismantle Israel.”

Any decent person, regardless of his take on the so-called Israeli-Palestinian “conflict,” should be unambiguous in condemning the mass slaughter, rape, burning alive and kidnapping of Jews. Instead, Mamdani condemned “Netanyahu’s declaration of war [and] the Israeli government’s decision to cut electricity to Gaza” and parroted risible Palestinian propaganda that Israel’s military response is a “genocide.”

Mamdani appeared on the FYPod show on “The Bulwark.” Co-host Tim Miller asked Mamdani if he felt “uncomfortable” with protesters chanting, “globalize the intifada” and “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free (of Jews).” Mamdani made it clear he endorses Palestinian terrorism, ethnic cleansing of Jews, and genocidal war when he quibbled over interpretations of those unambiguous slogans and said his job was not to police language. In other words, he is not uncomfortable with slogans that represent murderous antisemitism, he is only uncomfortable with condemning such hateful incendiary rhetoric.

Harvard’s former president, Larry Summers, said, “I am profoundly alarmed about the future of the [Democratic Party] and the country by yesterday’s NYC anointment of a candidate who failed to disavow a ‘globalize the intifada’ slogan ….”

Mamdani is also a textbook child of privilege. His Harvard-educated mother, Mira Nair, is an Academy Award–nominated filmmaker and an avowed Israel-hater. Her second husband, Mahmood Mamdani, is a Columbia anthropology professor who teaches so-called “anti-colonialism studies,” a dog whistle for anti-Zionist studies. Mamdani is a blend of the Ivy League and Hollywood, of radical academia and progressive show-business privilege. He once took a shot at being a rapper and recorded a paen to the “Holy Land Five” convicted of providing “material support for terrorism” to Hamas.

Currently, he is a New York State Assemblyman from Queens. His overwhelming legislative preoccupation was anti-Zionism. He derided the Assembly as a “bastion of Zionist thought.”

I maintain that leftist Jew-hatred is more dangerous than openly rightist Jew-hatred or nakedly jihadist Jew-hatred because it wraps itself in social virtue. More and more, it is becoming seamlessly absorbed into the Democratic Party. Mamdani knows he can’t sell “death to the Jews” Islamism to New York’s liberal masses, so he camouflages his Israel-hatred brand of antisemitism as a virtuous embrace of the downtrodden.

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Oxford-educated Palestinian propagandist and former Al Jazeera and MSNBC host, Mehdi Hasan, interviewed Mamdani and asked whether he would “welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu to New York City,” given that the U.S. is not a signatory to the Rome Statute which created the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002.

Mamdani responded unequivocally: “No. As mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. This is a city that our values are in line with international law. It’s time that our actions are also.”

When it was pointed out that Israel, too, is not a signatory to the ICC, Mamdani doubled down: “It’s time that we actually step up and make clear what we are willing to do to showcase the leadership that is sorely missing in the federal administration.” That was a reference to Donald Trump’s executive order signed in February sanctioning the ICC for its arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant.

The New York City mayor has no power to issue arrest warrants. Only a court can do that. Mamdani would need to go to federal court to act on behalf of the ICC. No federal court would grant his request, given the U.S. is not a signatory to the Rome Statute and Netanyahu enjoys diplomatic immunity from arrest as a foreign leader.

Mamdani knows this. Yet, he uses airtime to promote his faux power to arrest Netanyahu. That speaks volumes about who he is at his core and where his priorities lie.

There are 3,081,389 registered Democrats in the five counties of New York City. Mamdani won the primary with 432,305 votes, i.e., 14% of registered Democrats. It’s no accident black voters rejected him for the tainted Andrew Cuomo. If Cuomo runs as an Independent, he and incumbent Eric Adams will split the anti-Mamdani Democratic vote. Republican Curtis Sliwa, founder of the vigilante Guardian Angels group, is not a serious candidate. Democrats outregister Republicans nearly 7-1 in New York City. In other words, by winning the primary, Mamdani almost assuredly will win the general election and become Mayor.

There are stirrings within the Orthodox Jewish community to evacuate Brooklyn to upstate enclaves. Mamdani’s biggest win was in Brooklyn where the majority of New York City’s 100,000 Arabs are concentrated. Some are exulting on social media that Mamdani will drive the Hasidim from Brooklyn once and for all.

New York’s 2025 budget is $111.6 billion. It has a government workforce of nearly 300,000.

As a boy in the Jim Crow South, I witnessed the effects of Klansmen who were elected to public office. It put an official imprimatur on anti-black racism. If Mamdani becomes Mayor of the nation’s largest city — with a budget and workforce larger than that of 47 states — it will put an official imprimatur on anti-Jewish racism.

In sum, the future looks bleak.