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RandySF

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Thu Jun 19, 2025, 02:30 PM Jun 19

Mamdani's Comment on 'Intifada' Motto Fuels Tension in Mayor's Race [View all]

Simmering Democratic disagreements over the war in Gaza burst to the forefront of New York’s mayoral primary this week, rattling the final days of an already chaotic contest.

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the race’s front-runner, and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, his chief rival, have long differed over U.S. support for the war. But as voting approaches, they have traded increasingly pointed accusations that touch on antisemitism and Islamophobia.

The tension escalated on Tuesday, after Mr. Mamdani, a critic of Israel, was asked during a podcast interview if the phrase “globalize the intifada” made him uncomfortable, and he declined to condemn it. Palestinians and their supporters have called the phrase a rallying cry for liberation, but many Jews consider it a call to violence invoking resistance movements of the 1980s and 2000s.

In the interview with The Bulwark, Mr. Mamdani said he believed the phrase spoke to “a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights.” He said the U.S. Holocaust Museum used a similar Arabic term for “uprising” to describe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis, and stressed his own commitment to nonviolence and fighting antisemitism.




https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/nyregion/mamdani-globalize-intifada.html

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I know Mamdani is supposed to be progressive, but making a statement like that in... brush Jun 19 #1
Mamdani was trying to explain the origin of the word intifada. Zohran25 Jun 21 #2
Equating it to the Warsaw ghetto uprising in WWll was not smart... brush Jun 21 #3
The Palestinians were fighting for their liberation just as European Jews did against Nazism. Zohran25 Jun 21 #4
I'm a staunch supporter of the Palestinians in Gaza. Again, why go there... brush Jun 21 #5
Regardless they should be asking local questions. Zohran25 Jun 21 #6
Politics has plenty of pitfalls, gotcha questions and good/poor decisions to make. brush Jun 21 #7
Lashing out at plotting "Zionists" two days before the election is not a winning strategy. RandySF Jun 22 #9
They are trying to take Mamdani down. Zohran25 Jun 22 #11
Corbyn presided over the spread of antisemitism in the Labour Party. RandySF Jun 22 #12
All of which was a smear campaign to stop Corbyn from becoming prime minister. Zohran25 Jun 22 #15
It's all a smear, right. RandySF Jun 22 #16
Corbyn was nuts though Polybius Jun 22 #18
I am not comfortable with this candidate LetMyPeopleVote Jun 22 #8
You are not comfortable with economic justice? Zohran25 Jun 22 #10
LOL I was a Clinton delegate to the 2016 National Convention LetMyPeopleVote Jun 22 #13
What real issues? He is one of the few morally decent people running in the primary. Zohran25 Jun 22 #14
Really? This candidate has a past that raises issues LetMyPeopleVote Jun 22 #17
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