Mamdani win
Here's a bit from The Times of Israel's editor, David Horovitz, on the Mamdani win in New York ...
Does it really matter that New York’s Mayor-elect Mamdani loathes and demonizes Israel?
[...] Mamdani has left no doubt that his support of the Palestinians and refusal to accept Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state are central to his identity and purpose.
His first statement after the Hamas massacre in southern Israel, issued on October 8, 2023, mourned “the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last 36 hours,” condemned Israel for going to war, and called for dismantling Israeli “apartheid.” Campaigning for mayor, he repeatedly accused Israel of genocide in Gaza, made clear he supports the boycotting of Israel (an effort ultimately intended to deny Israel the capacity to defend itself against enemies openly committed to its destruction), equivocated on whether Hamas should lay down its arms, and refused to condemn calls to “globalize the intifada” (though he later said he would discourage use of the phrase) ...
I do worry about Mamdani's attitude towards Israel - he doesn't seem to believe it has a right to exist as a Jewish homeleand with a Jewish majority population. This isn't a weird idea - take Japan. Its laws restrict immigration/citizenship to the point that it remains about 98% Japanese ethnicity .... why is that understandable for Japan but not Israerl?
And also, I think Mamdani's views on socialism are antiquated and undesirable - there's a reason the Berlin wall fell. Watch him articulate both his views on socialism and also on Israel in this video from four years ago at a conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America ...
Does it really matter that New York’s Mayor-elect Mamdani loathes and demonizes Israel?
[...] Mamdani has left no doubt that his support of the Palestinians and refusal to accept Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state are central to his identity and purpose.
His first statement after the Hamas massacre in southern Israel, issued on October 8, 2023, mourned “the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last 36 hours,” condemned Israel for going to war, and called for dismantling Israeli “apartheid.” Campaigning for mayor, he repeatedly accused Israel of genocide in Gaza, made clear he supports the boycotting of Israel (an effort ultimately intended to deny Israel the capacity to defend itself against enemies openly committed to its destruction), equivocated on whether Hamas should lay down its arms, and refused to condemn calls to “globalize the intifada” (though he later said he would discourage use of the phrase) ...
I do worry about Mamdani's attitude towards Israel - he doesn't seem to believe it has a right to exist as a Jewish homeleand with a Jewish majority population. This isn't a weird idea - take Japan. Its laws restrict immigration/citizenship to the point that it remains about 98% Japanese ethnicity .... why is that understandable for Japan but not Israerl?
And also, I think Mamdani's views on socialism are antiquated and undesirable - there's a reason the Berlin wall fell. Watch him articulate both his views on socialism and also on Israel in this video from four years ago at a conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America ...
posted by crystal | 10:28 AM
2 Comments:
If I lived in NYC I probably wouldn't have voted for Mandani. I say "probably" because there were so many problems with Cuomo whom I also wouldn't have voted for. Maybe Sliwa? I don't know very much about him. But I think a lot of people were fed up with the high cost of living in NYC. It's a huge city and hopefully Mandani will realize he can't do it alone and will step back from the rhetoric.
Yes, I would have probably voted for Mamdani, though I have a lot of concerns about him, just because there was no one else to vote for. It would be interesting to see how he would have done against a better Democratic contender than Cuomo or Adams.
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