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Foreign ministry says mayor has poured ‘antisemitic gasoline on an open fire’ by scrapping IHRA definition
Israel’s foreign ministry has accused the New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of pouring “antisemitic gasoline on an open fire” after he reversed a recent order by the outgoing mayor, Eric Adams.
“On his very first day as @NYCMayor, Mamdani shows his true face: he scraps the IHRA definition of antisemitism and lifts restrictions on boycotting Israel. This isn’t leadership. It’s antisemitic gasoline on an open fire,” the foreign ministry said in a post on X.
Mamdani revoked an Adams-era order that adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, which the previous administration said included “demonizing Israel and holding it to double standards as forms of contemporary antisemitism”.
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Israel blocked Doctors Without Borders from Palestine.
They don’t get to have an opinion anymore.
B…b…but isn’t Doctors Without Broders a terrorist organization
Israel’s foreign ministry can fuck themselves with a wire brush
Nobody should care what Israel’s fascist, genocidal government thinks.
We should know that israel think of extrrminating Palestinians
We already know that!
I honestly take this more of confirmation that he’s a good guy.
Or the Israeli and American citizens who empower them.
That’s antisemitic.
/s
As 19th century journalist Donn Piatt said, “A man’s greatness can be measured by his enemies.”
When Israeli Government criticizes anyone, my response is “so what”.
ISrael labels everyone anti-semite for not defending them, basically the “oprah” of calling people antisemites.
It means whatever target of Israel is doing something correctly and will be remembered on the right side of history.
If they didn’t, he’d be doing it wrong.
Israel Threatens NYC with Second 9/11 Over Antisemitic Mayor
“We won’t be so subtle this time, you Goy Fucks!” declares moderate party leader Bull DozeGaza.
The Zionists love to use antisemitism as a sword against criticism of Israel. (and the Shoah as their shield) Meanwhile the American right is split over the goddamn Jewish question. Who else thinks this strategy is short-sighted?
They can weild it all they can, but with each use it’s sharpness wears off.
It’s not. If the West becomes too dangerous Jews there will for the most part have no choice but to go to Israel, giving them more bodies for their fascist project. This is not a bad thing for them as long as they can count on support from Western antisemites.
Your comment is as wrong as two left shoes. Where in the world is more dangerous for Jews than Israel? Did you know that Israeli building codes require a safe room? Does that sound like a safe place to you?
1/2 are true nazis, who would like nothing better than eliminating jews, the other is only supporting them because of AIPAC/ and defense contractors, plus many UNIVERSITIES have ties to israel too. MIT is probably the biggest offender, in haivng a pipeline to israeli /weapons/tech development.
charlie kirks main sponsors was israeli backed billionaire.(i think candace owens pretty much calling out that too)
Of course they do.
Does the Pope poop in the forest? No wait … I’m confused now
you idiot, it’s “if a pope falls in the woods does he make a sound”
No no no … It’s “Does a bear wear a silly hat”
Is the bear Catholic?
I don’t understand how you can have restrictions on boycotting anything, much less a country.
Like I genuinely don’t get what that means or how it could be in any way enforceable.
The point is to outlaw collective action, forcing people into less effective unilateral action. Same reason unions are regulated.
Death, death to the IDF!
From what I’ve read the new mayor has withdrawn all orders from the previous mayor following his criminal indictment on the grounds that they may be self serving to the previous mayor and/or made as political favors intended to avoid prosecution.
I’ve also read the new mayor is reviewing each to see which are worth reimplenting in part or in whole.
Whether or not this was a wise choice is up for debate, but it is no surprise that those affected were ready to pounce in order to score political points. Someone associated with the new mayor must have seen this coming for this particular religiously charged topic, and must have known the NY press would not be forgiving.
I think this is a non event.
Mamdani has been publicly stating his opposition to the Israeli occupation for years. Israel’s government has been accusing him falsely of antisemitism since he became known. And the NY press has tried to rattle him over it since Israel began attempting to smear him, with no effect.
This is like holding a press conference to announce that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Yes. That was the state of affairs yesterday and the day before, and presumably will remain so tomorrow.
This isn’t something anyone needs to or will react to.
Conflating criticism of Israel and antisemitism is one thing Israel and antisemites agree on, except that they start from different ends of the same equation.
IIRC the courts in Australia ruled that it’s not inherently antisemitic to criticise the Israeli government.
BUT — reverse uno card — it found that conflating the actions of Israel with the actions of Jewish people can be antisemitic.
Both of which make sense to me if I understand it right.
Mamdani has expressed support for the Jewish population of NYC.
The only thing he did here that Israel is criticizing him for, is reaffirming the distinction between Jewish identity and the state of Israel. The definition he scrapped conflated the two; it was a bad-faith definition aimed at obfuscation.
It’s entirely possible to validly criticize the actions of a nation’s government without promoting hatred of its people; the fact of Israel being an ethnostate doesn’t change that.
It’s also harmful to conflate Jewish identity with Israeli politics, because there are many Jewish people who don’t support the actions of the far-right, ultra-orthodox government of the state of Israel. Conflating them results in the dispersal of blame for Israel’s actions across all Jewish people everywhere, and that is anti-semitic.
Also, Arabic is a semitic language, so doesn’t that make islamophobia a form of anti-semitism? That would mean Benjamin Netanyahu is the biggest anti-semite alive today. Just food for thought…
Probably half of my social circle are practicing Jews or come from Jewish families. Not only do none of them support Israel, but most of them are vastly more ferocious in their criticism than I am.
They’re really speedrunning the whole “Our entire diaspora hates us.” thing.
We attend a Passover seder every year where the host mother dedicates the ceremony to the people of Palestine, that they may one day be set free of their bondage and suffering as were the Jews in Egypt.
Easily 80% of the Jewish people we know are fiercely anti-zionist and horrified by the Israeli government.
it also encourages anti-semitism against jewish by neonazis and further cements that belief, and also stereotypes of jews.
Also, Arabic is a semitic language, so doesn’t that make islamophobia a form of anti-semitism?
It would if most Muslims were native Arabic speakers. They aren’t, though. The biggest Muslim populations are in Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Iran. Of those, only Iran has any Arab people at all, and they’re a small minority.
That’s true, and I was hoping everyone would conveniently ignore that fact. But most of the Muslims hated by western bigots are from Arab-majority nations, and Benjamin Netanyahu certainly hates enough Arab people to be called anti-semitic nonetheless.
A lot of americans don’t even realize there are Arab Christians…
Got into a repeated argument with a guy here on fediverse this morning who was promoting “Mamdani is antisemitic” stuff. He was extremely adamant, and was following the same type argument structure as I used to get into with the MAGAts on reddit. I regret to announce that the trolls have arrived :(
Trolls or bots?
Trolls. This is one of the conversations we had, this one on a deliberately twisted claim he posted to Progressive Politics.
