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🚨: It's after midnight in Gaza as Israel is blowing up civilian homes on an unprecedented scale in Gaza City. Reports on the ground and eyewitnesses talk of charred bodies and massive destruction, coupled with a vast number of casualties.

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@olivelacedpen Also lol at the comments. I’m not giving Mamdani the benefit of the doubt. I’m one of the very few that called him out even before he was elected:

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a year ago

Politicians like @ZohranKMamdani who seek our votes must be held accountable. Recently, he’s made the media rounds, repeatedly reaffirming “Israel’s right to exist” — a phrase long used to justify the ongoing genocide, ethnic cleansing, and dehumanization of Palestinians. No

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@olivelacedpen Oh I misunderstood your tweet, I thought you were defending him. Absolutely agree

Someone should directly ask Mamdani if he knew Smotrich was coming to NYC. And if he did, why did he issue the genocide supporting parade a permit?

Bullshit None of this real All garbage theater Trump is a slave to the Zionists They own him There is no turning back

The Spectator Index @spectatorindex

2 days ago

BREAKING: Axios reports that Trump told Netanyahu in their latest phonecall, 'You’re f***ing crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.'

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Zohran Mamdani is now positioning himself as a “public safety” mayor. That is the start of his pivot back to the status quo of supporting a police state. Only difference is he will just use woke language in order to justify it Generational left fell for it again award.

A few years ago, I helped organize protests against the Israel Day Parade and feared for my life. Today, with an infant and after being the target of a recent assassination plot, I can’t take that risk. What’s hard to understand is how so many organizations with far more resources, security, and capacity were nowhere to be found.

Politicians will literally march with war criminals and post about how amazing the genocidal baby killing parade was only to softly condemn the participation of a wanted war criminal the next day when they get pushback. You and @NYCMayor could’ve had him arrested. Instead we get empty words.

Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul

3 days ago

Bezalel Smotrich is a far-right extremist whose hateful and divisive rhetoric is fundamentally at odds with the values we hold dear in New York. Yesterday’s parade was a celebration of Jewish pride, community, and unity. I strongly condemn his participation.

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During the "Israel Parade" in NYC, the Golani Battalion's flag of the Israeli army was raised. It is the one that slaughtered the 15 paramedics in Rafah & buried them in the most heinous crime in our lifetime, let alone its history. This is terrorism incitement, not free speech

Caleb T. Maupin @RealCalebMaupin

3 days ago

What do Jews think of NYC Mayor @ZohranKMamdani ? I went to the Israel Day Parade on 5th Ave to find out. WATCH! ENJOY! SHARE!

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Again, this is exactly the mechanism I describe in my post. Mamdani begins by making the bold claim that antisemitism is not the same as anti-Zionism. The headlines are written, and public perception is shaped. But afterward, he goes on to label direct actions against Zionism as antisemitic. For example, when an individual/group targeted an ‘Israeli’ restaurant for stealing Palestinian cuisine, he condemned the act as antisemitism.

@preston_terry_ AOC. Obama. Sanders. The list can go on!

Huh? Ya Bassam, the issue isn’t that he’s skipping the Epstein class genocidal parade. The issue is that he’ll still have someone from his administration attend on its behalf. The issue is that he retained Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner despite her ties to Netanyahu and her association with the NYPD’s Muslim surveillance program. The issue is that he continues to reaffirm Israel’s right to exist. The issue is that he continues to conflate Judaism with Zionism. The issue is that despite all that I’ve listed, people parade him as some super democrat politician who is perfect and pro-Palestinian instead of being part of the same party the helped genocide our people.

@SehraMankirat @Spade_70 @MartinCole47815 Israel’s existence only came to be after the forced displacement and mass slaughter of the Palestinian people. The foundation of its creation is genocide, and that’s irreformable.

Honestly, Mamdani and his PR team are incredibly savvy. They're doing exactly what they promised: rebuilding the people’s trust in government, but through perception first. Take the Israeli parade. First, he announces he'll be skipping it. That dominates headlines and reinforces the image of a mayor willing to take a bold stand, even at political risk. People who were skeptical start questioning their skepticism because the move feels authentic and principled. Then, after that positive perception takes hold, you get something like the video below. He still announces that he won't attend the parade himself, so he keeps the positive publicity. But at the same time, he says he'll send a member of his administration instead: Jessica Tisch, whom he chose to retain despite her family's well-known ties to Netanyahu. Most people won't notice the distinction. A small number like myself will criticize it, but by then the mass deception has already been established. The public focus shifts from scrutinizing the contradiction to defending the image of a "principled mayor." The net result is growing support, deeper belief in the system, and no political cost for it. This is the same pattern I saw with his pro-Palestinian messaging. "Free Palestine" goes viral, his supporters rally behind him, and his popularity grows. Then later, he starts saying in interviews that “Israel has a right to exist.” When I called it out and challenged him directly, the base had already been manipulated into a loyal following built around a radical image of him. Only months later did my criticism start to go mainstream, but by then the cycle had already reset and repeated itself. That's what makes the strategy so effective. The headline-grabbing position comes first. The nuance comes later. By the time people notice the difference, the public perception has already been set and he’s onto the next thing.

Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh

7 days ago

WATCH: I asked Mamdani that while he won't be attending given his personal views, is the administration sending a representative on behalf of the administration to the parade? Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch steps in and points to herself. Mamdani nods in agreement.

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This is an incisive breakdown - nothing is off the cuff or incidental, everything is planned and managed. I was so taken aback by the video this tweet is responding to - are genocide and apartheid just a friendly disagreement? Is opposition to both just a mild shift in one’s calendar? The best moment Mamdani had was in the debate when candidates were asked where they would go after becoming mayor and everyone said Israel and he brilliantly shut it down and shifted the convo to his own terms and made every other candidate look like a buffoon. That Mamdani is less and less visible, on this issue, every day. Worth noting that the reason why his most ardent supporters won’t really care about this is because Mamdani is doing a lot of great things for the city, for New Yorkers - that will overpower the slow burn betrayal of the anti-genocide movement thru the resuscitation of the Democrats. Most people, it seems, are okay with that.

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5 days ago

Honestly, Mamdani and his PR team are incredibly savvy. They're doing exactly what they promised: rebuilding the people’s trust in government, but through perception first. Take the Israeli parade. First, he announces he'll be skipping it. That dominates headlines and reinforces

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Lol, do you think I’m a social media personality? I’m literally a NYC grassroots organizer who’s mobilized tens of thousands of people for my people. But I do agree with your statement. Tweets alone are not some sort of political praxis, and yes those who spend all their time on Twitter instead of organizing are aggravating.

@YDONTUDOMORE So true

@MartinCole47815 The fact that you don’t see the problem here is, de facto, what I’m arguing this does to his base.

@pattyo_36 He modified his argument AFTER I heckled him. And regardless this statement fails because Israel’s creation was contingent on the annihilation of the Palestinian people and the colonizing of their land. You can’t reform a settler colony when genocide is at its foundation.