I was taken by this quote from Ezra Klein (not someone with whom I agree all that much):
One thing I have just appreciated about Mamdani and the Mamdani-Lander alliance as a Jewish person, it’s very important that it is possible and understood to be possible that you can be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic.
I’m not anti-Zionist in that way. I’m a kind of two-state solution person who doesn’t really believe that’s possible. I’m not sure what I think is plausible at this point. But putting my own politics aside, I very fundamentally believe Mamdani is anti-Zionist and not antisemitic.
In my view, he did a very good job making that clear in his responses. Lander acted as a very important cross-validator for him.
But in a world where Israel is going to be as brutal as it has been in Gaza — and is going to play much more of a role of a regional hegemon militarily, which is what it has stepped into — people are going to have very strong opinions — including strong negative opinions — on what it means for there to be roughly 7 million Palestinians who do not have equal rights and who are under Israeli control.
It’s very important. You just have to be able to be against what the Israeli state has become and not antisemitic.
I think it’s an incredibly dangerous game that pro-Zionist people have played trying to conflate those things. Because if you tell people enough times that opposing Israel is to be antisemitic, at some point they’re going to say: Then I guess I’m antisemitic.
Sorry to rain on the parade.but a bunch of EUROPEAN WHITE JEWS have zero business in Palestine.
Two state solution?!! Why do the Palestinians have to share ANY portion of THEIR land with these murderers? Because the ENGLISH decided to get rid of the Jews to a land that wasn’t theirs to give?
I ask myself who are these New York Jews who everyone fears. Part of them must be on billionaire's row and many are the ultra orthodox. These people won't change their minds,but this still leaves a large group fighting against what Israel is doing, I hope.
I was taken by this quote from Ezra Klein (not someone with whom I agree all that much):
One thing I have just appreciated about Mamdani and the Mamdani-Lander alliance as a Jewish person, it’s very important that it is possible and understood to be possible that you can be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic.
I’m not anti-Zionist in that way. I’m a kind of two-state solution person who doesn’t really believe that’s possible. I’m not sure what I think is plausible at this point. But putting my own politics aside, I very fundamentally believe Mamdani is anti-Zionist and not antisemitic.
In my view, he did a very good job making that clear in his responses. Lander acted as a very important cross-validator for him.
But in a world where Israel is going to be as brutal as it has been in Gaza — and is going to play much more of a role of a regional hegemon militarily, which is what it has stepped into — people are going to have very strong opinions — including strong negative opinions — on what it means for there to be roughly 7 million Palestinians who do not have equal rights and who are under Israeli control.
It’s very important. You just have to be able to be against what the Israeli state has become and not antisemitic.
I think it’s an incredibly dangerous game that pro-Zionist people have played trying to conflate those things. Because if you tell people enough times that opposing Israel is to be antisemitic, at some point they’re going to say: Then I guess I’m antisemitic.
Sorry to rain on the parade.but a bunch of EUROPEAN WHITE JEWS have zero business in Palestine.
Two state solution?!! Why do the Palestinians have to share ANY portion of THEIR land with these murderers? Because the ENGLISH decided to get rid of the Jews to a land that wasn’t theirs to give?
F*ck that.
Middle of the road, lukewarm centrist bullshit.
🖕🇮🇱.
I ask myself who are these New York Jews who everyone fears. Part of them must be on billionaire's row and many are the ultra orthodox. These people won't change their minds,but this still leaves a large group fighting against what Israel is doing, I hope.
Spaeth's article (which MJ discusses: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/zohran-mamdani-israel-stance-democratic-party-lesson.html)