What are you going to tell me about this ANTI SEMITE next? He DOESNT Condone Raping Children? SHAMEFUL!
-NY Times!
I think the funniest part of this is I wandered over to the conservative areas of the internet to see the reaction and they’re fighting each other on how to feel about this. They all hate Mamdani, but half are as anti-Israel and “America first” that they’re asking why there’s an Israel Day parade and screaming at the pro-Israel groups that are mad at Mamdani for not going.
If nothing else, him doing this has given a fun show.
TBF the lunatics have a point - why the fuck is there an Israel day?! Not American so first I’ve heard of this.
Why not? The greatest thing about America is that it is a cultural melting pot where we all get to celebrate and share our cultures with each other. We have clearly lost sight of that these days with the fascist coup, but it’s still in our nation’s DNA.
Celebrating one’s culture can be wonderful. Celebrating Jewish heritage is perfectly fine.
Celebrating Israel is not celebrating Jewish heritage. Israel is an evil nation that not only commits attrocities, but fuels violent anti-Western extremists at the same time.
The only thing in your nation’s DNA is war, imperialism and racism.
That’s pretty reductionist.
“Might makes right” and White Supremacy are literally the values on top of which the US was created.
Just ask Native Americans.
The first one definitelly carries on very openly to this day (though nowadays it’s played a lot more with the power of money rather than outright use of force) whilst the second might seem to have gone away but judging by what’s being done now by the President elected by most Americans, clearly it did not, plus even the other bunch of the power duopoly that rules America were fine with that shit, though only abroad rather than home.
I mean, really, I’m trying to come up with values others than those that are true across America and I can’t think of any. Some States and even cities have certain highly celebrated values, sure, but America as a whole, not really. Maybe Jingoism?
Oh buhu
I’m of mixed descent but if I had an offficial any of those countries day that politicians were expected to go to I wouldn’t like that. I don’t even like canada day. I don’t like any country day.
[insert culture here] market and festival type events are great though I like traditional food, dance and crafts, etc. Celebrate the people not the country, and celebrate the culture only if it doesn’t involve killing civilians.
It’s just an NYC thing, not American, as they have one of the densest Jewish populations in the US. I’d never heard of it either
There’s events for various cultures and ethnicities, the St. Patty’s day parade (for one example) has been going longer then the U.S. has existed as a country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Parades_in_New_York_City
Wouldn’t super Israel-first politicians even probably call out sick for an Israel parade?
Hey now. Don’t you diss my bro Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole, author of hit song “Sonewhere over the Rainbow”
Having a parade for a country that has allowed itself to become what Israel has become does not make any sense.
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He’s probably busy watching Arsenal’s Premier League trophy parade on a live stream. Can’t really blame him - he’s a massive Arsenal fan, and… not really a fan of what Israel is doing these days. Sometimes you have to go where your heart is.
If there is a “Jewish day Parade” I’ll be there, but specifically Israel is super problematic; don’t know how any sane person can support anymore
This. “Hey, instead of parading for the ethnicity that has been victim of discrimination and genocide for millenia, let’s parade for the white colonizers larping as said ethnicity to gain Victim Points™!”
I am genuinely curious who you believe is ethnically Jewish if Israel is white colonizers pretending to be Jewish? I hear somewhat frequently that there aren’t “real” Jews anymore because intermixing with Europeans (and other ethnicities) diluted their bloodline too much, and it feels not only doublethinky but almost eugenicist.
I think the bottom line is Israel is either a theocracy first or a eugenics project first.
Stuff like this shows in the past, at least, it was leaning toward the latter: https://www.christiancentury.org/news/african-hebrew-israelites-finally-see-legal-victory-against-israel-s-deportation-threats
Oh no doubt, it is both a theocracy and a racial supremacy, with lighter skinned Jewish supremacy to boot. My concern has been with the seeming erasure of Jewish ethnicity through conflation with White Supremacy as the big societal evil of our time.
It just skeeves me out and feels basically racist when people call Israel white European settler colonialism. Like only the evil European White Man could be so evil, so they obviously aren’t “real” Jews. It has the same energy as white supremacists not counting Jews as white, just flipped and repackaged. Maybe it’s just racial purity testing in general not sitting right with me, I don’t like it when either political side does it.
Why is there a fucking Israel Day Parade in NYC?
W h a t t h e f u c k ?
Is there a “Canada Day” parade as well? That one would at least make sense given proximity.
Canaday. and i don’t know but it’s stupid and it shouldn’t be.
Canadian pride ✅
Canada pride 🚩🚩🚩
A can a day keeps the fascist away?
Not to be confused with Cannaday.
Judaism Day Parade, sure! Israel Day Parade? Fuck that!
this will really piss off a bunch of white redneck evangelicals that use israel to validate their death wish on society
Who don’t live in, have never been to, and are to scared to visit the city.
And likely have some not very nice things to say about the Jewish people.
I think they want them all in Jerusalem when the Bible’s Armageddon happens.
ny post and fox news writers pp’s just became the big pp with that one.
Good, im proud of him.
Promises made, promises kept.
He said he couldn’t make it to every parade. He should send Curtis in his place.
You mean Jerome.
I don’t get the reference, I was thinking about the NYC mayoral debate where they were taking about attending parades.
Ouch.
Morris Day and Jerome Benton are closely associated as members of the funk band The Time, where Benton served as a backup dancer and comedic actor, often playing the role of Day’s valet. They both gained fame through their performances and collaborations, particularly in the film “Purple Rain.”
