Mamdani, in New Interview, Calls Israelis Child-Killers
Mayoral candidate abandons affordability to lash out at U.S.-funded Gaza “horror”
The Democratic Party’s mayoral candidate in New York City, Zohran Mamdani, is intensifying his anti-Israel rhetoric with new comments blaming Israeli soldiers for killing and maiming children in Gaza.
Some press accounts had suggested Mamdani might focus his general election campaign primarily on “affordability” rather than U.S. foreign policy. That might potentially allow Mamdani or his allies to try to claim that his more extreme anti-Israel rhetoric or policy positions, such as support of a boycott of Israel or arresting its prime minister, were irrelevant or the stuff of the past. Mamdani did recently issue a video about fast and free buses in dedicated lanes, a proposal he associated in the video with the administration of Mayor Bloomberg.
Other press accounts emphasized Mamdani’s recent claim that he has not used the phrase “globalize the intifada” and that “I discourage its use.”
Yet the new comments from Mamdani suggest that, rather than taking a conciliatory approach on the Israel issue, demonizing Israelis as child-killers is going to be an aspect of Mamdani’s general election campaign for mayor of New York City. The stereotype of Jews as bloodthirsty child-killers has been a staple of hateful anti-Jewish propaganda for centuries.
Here’s exactly what Mamdani said and why it’s wrong:
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