cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7073049
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/14221
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City owed no small debt to Palestine activists, many of whom mobilized behind his campaign. But how will this relationship fare once he enters City Hall? There are some early tests that will let us know.
Last month, activists gathered outside New York City’s Park East Synagogue to protest an event hosted by Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organization that assists Jewish individuals in relocating to Israel.
The protest, which was organized by the Palestinian Assembly for Liberation (PAL Awda), was condemned as antisemitic by pro-Israel groups and leaders over chants of “globalize the intifada” and “death to the IDF.”
“No New Yorker should be intimidated or harassed at their house of worship,” declared New York Governor Kathy Hochul. “What happened last night at the Park East Synagogue was shameful and a blatant attack on the Jewish community.”
All eyes naturally turned to mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who was repeatedly confronted with antisemitism smears throughout the campaign over his criticisms of Israel.
Now, on the verge of assuming power, Mamdani is attempting to navigate the city’s political terrain.
In the case of Nefesh B’Nefesh, his team attempted to criticize both sides of the issue.
“The Mayor-elect has discouraged the language used at last night’s protest and will continue to do so,” said Mamdani’s press secretary Dora Pekec in a statement.
“He believes every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation, and that these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law,” she added, a reference to Nefesh B’Nefesh’s connections to illegal Israeli settlements.
Just two days after the protest, a meeting Mamdani held with Rabbi Marc Schneier raised concerns among his left-wing base.
Schneier, who is president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, said he called on Mamdani to push for legislation that would prohibit demonstrations from being held outside any house of worship, and that the mayor-elect responded positively.
In a statement released after the protest, PAL Awda reaffirmed its commitment to opposing settler recruitment sales, regardless of where they take place.
“Zionists may hide them in homes, schools, and places of worship-knowing well that state officials and the media will join them in weaponizing accusations of antisemitism against protesters,” it read.
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Prior to all this, I never really cared about Israel and Palestine. I knew it was complicated with lots of history, both sides did bad things. Israel was the state aggressor pushing down Palestinians, and in response terrorist groups like Hamas would blow up Israelis.
However, after all of this I really deeply despise the zionists. They themselves have managed to make people despise them. Hamas and any other terrorist groups are disgusting and will sacrifice their own citizens to further their cause, but around the world zionists (those who specifically support the state of Israel committing genocide) are exposing who they are. It’s so slimy that they then hide behind “anti-semitism” when criticized, as if this has anything to do with the actual Jewish religion.
Mamdani has his work cut out for him…
It is not complicated Israel is the settler colonial power and palestine the occupied people. The world could have stopped israel in 48 and in 67 by not recognizing israel and by isolating it from the world economy
By then the Americans already knew that Israel was a god-given (pun very much intended) for them, a permanent and enthusiastic military base smack in the middle of oil-rich enemy territory. Well, not quite smack in the middle, and not only oil, but still.
And so we all have been supporting US American imperialism under the guise of Helping The Jews Fight The Good Fight for many decades.
Capitalist interests will probably play both sides against him. They cannot afford a socialist to succeed.
Israel vs Islam is an important matter, but the most important fight is the one against the new robber barons. Israel kills people by the tens and hundreds of thousands. The new robber barons kill by the tens and hundreds of millions.
Its also where the Israeli state gets its power from.
Israel vs islam! What s bunch of BS. If it was about Islam, Israel would be the enemy of Saudi not the small Palestinian state. Christians was always part of the liberation movement in Palestine.
Also if someone said Judaism vs Palestine it would have not passed
Let me clarify, those are the antagonist forces who want to perpetuate the conflict.
Israelis and Palastinians of most denominations want these to be peace.
82% of Israelis support ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Half of them support extermination.
And no, “Islam” is not a “antagonist forces who want to perpetuate the conflict”, that’s Zionist bullshit. Western colonialism is the force perpetuating the conflict
Both can be True. Conflict almost never have a good and bad side. Most often, its bad and worse. Israel is the worse one clearly.
Everywhere Islam borders other religions there is conflict. Most other religions used to be like that too, but they have since reformed themselves to be peaceful. It is worth noting that Christian nationalism in the US is trending the violent direction again, but that is more a imperialist force than a religious one in my opinion.
The only antagonist is Israel the occupier
Lets say tomorrow, Israels government falls and it replaced with a government that goes the route of a two state solution based on previously agreed terms along with a prosecution of war criminals.
Do you honestly think the conflict will stop?
The conflict only wouldn’t stop because Israel has deliberately filled West Bank with hundreds of thousands of armed zealot settlers to deliberately sabotage the Palestinian state. If Palestinians were genuinely given freedom the conflict would stop tomorrow
Yes but we know that the chance of an government who want to end the occupation is 0%
Its possible if they lose foreign support. Which is why the target needs to be the oligachs running those governments.
he faces pressure from an unlikely source —
Stupidly phrased. Clickbait I guess. Palestine activists protested against a pro-settler event, not against Mamdani. @SoupBrick quoted from a different article that would appear to be more balanced.
Mamdani issued a 50-word statement after the protest that “discouraged the language used” by the protesters. But then he notably criticized the synagogue for hosting the event in the first place.
“He believes every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation,” Mamdani spokesperson Dora Pekec said, “and that these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law.”
A spokesperson said that final phrase of a “violation of international law” was a reference to Nefesh B’Nefesh’s promotion on its website of settlements beyond the Green Line, the armistice boundary cutting through Jerusalem that separates Israel from the West Bank, which Israel captured in 1967 and where Palestinians hope to create a future state.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/us/mamdani-israel-antisemitism-protest
People who have issue with globalize the intifada slogan don’t want to tell you that it start peacefully for palestine to be liberated till israel started shooting protestors and that 10 times more palestinians civilians was killed than israeli
and that these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law.
Salient point. No idea why OP left that out. Oh, it’s a different article.
