Mamdani is 100% correct.
terrorists or demons would be a tad better, but monsters checks out. I like to bring in war criminals hiding from international justice too.
He’s not wrong they should be declared a terrorist group.
They should at least have to register as a foreign lobby
Have you gotten hasbara thrown at u that Israel is lower than some other countries in FARA reports? Yeah.
No but if it’s not bad enough that they are a foreign lobby meddling in our elections, they have resorted to dark money fronts posing as progressive or conservative activist groups in order to hide their influence. It’s fucking insidious.
Yup, it’s bullshit, clearly they are a functional foreign lobby and as you suggest they should be on the list. But they aren’t, so my pro-Israel friends/family pull up the FARA numbers to prove Israel isn’t the top foreign lobbyist in the US. It’s farcical.
They don’t do any terroristic activities.
They just bribe and coerce public employees into giving an immoral genocidal foreign government infinite money and protection from accountability and justice.
they do almost nothing but terrorism. Its their whole shtick.
according to statesian law, funding terrorists is terroristic activity. on that basis i disagree with your judgment of:
They don’t do any terroristic activities.
otherwise, you seem to have a good grasp of the situation
Comments like these make me think that if I were an American Jew I’d be donating to AIPAC. I’d want somewhere to escape to if antisemitism continues to to increase.
If it gets to a point where Jews are leaving your country to escape antisemitic violence, who’s the monsters?
The Jewish people live on stolen land. Remind me what happened on May 14, 1948. This isn’t some ancient claim. It was a bait and switch by England. Benny is just getting old and deciding like all the old boomers that he’s going to solidify some legacy and die off unaccountable.
Congratulations, you’re the perfect kind of brainless sheep that Israel wants to justify their genocide.
If it gets to a point where Jews are leaving your country to escape antisemitic violence, who’s the monsters?
LMAO, the people who leave are getting discounted houses/free land stolen from LIVING families who are now homeless. There are so many fucking reports, documentaries, and interviews about this, spanning back to the 19-fucking-70s. The Nakba is a real historically analyzed event. Fucking Helen Mirren has a quote about what she saw:
Mirren said of her experience in Israel at that time:
I witnessed things that were wrong. I witnessed Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground. It was an amazing time to be here.Who’s the monster? Look in the mirror, “space cowboy”. From a Canadian instance no less: you exist in a server on stolen treaty land, and you’re support other’s land getting stolen. What else is new.
This is interesting. She had other remarks about Israelis toward the end of her career as well. Less charitable ones
She had me in the first half, until the magical energy kicked in. Really illustrates how much you can overlook when you’re quite sure you know who the good guys are. I bet the Nazi party also had its fair share of magical energy back in the day.
lol, every Jewish American I know hates AIPAC and is 100% against the occupation and genocide that is currently happening.
Nothing turns people against AIPAC more than facts about AIPAC and Israel.
What are you even talking about?!
I don’t think that’s giving American Jews enough credit.
Israel as a bug-out plan for anyone with Jewish heritage is a distinctly Zionist idea, which is far more polarizing these days.
But even if some Jews may be given to such a demonstrably facile us-them disposition — i.e., security-at-all-costs with no sense of irony whatsoever — my impression is that many find it impossible to ignore the apparent gollum of this increasingly explicit mechanized hegemonic genocidal fascist apartheid state somehow laying claim to their worldwide identity.
If I were an American Jew, I would be asking myself “is this what being Jewish means to me?” And I suspect my answer would be outrage to the tune of “no, fuck Zionism” or “no, fuck Israel.” Either way it would consume me utterly.
In short, I just find it hard to believe the average Jew is especially ignorant, heartless, or selfish. That to me sounds like actual antisemitism.
ETA: I can’t speak for American Jews but most of the Jews I know are either older and just anti-bibi or younger and openly anti-Zionist. This is in New York for context.
i mean i get it. i’m disabled. i had three weeks from my diagnosis to my first real death threat. not my first death threat, the first one that was actionable. the first nonactionable threat only took a few days. i’d have immigrated, like, anywhere by now if there was anywhere that took disabled people. and i’m literally the best in the world at my instrument.
i’m literally the best in the world at my instrument
Can you tell us more?
Unless you are donating obscene amounts, they don’t give 2 shits about you or your backup plan.
Antifa was last year.
Can you explain how Antifa is a terrorist group?
I’d love specifics.
What specifically have they done? Who have they terrified? Hell, even just… Who is the group?
Antifa isn’t a group like Al Qaeda, The Taliban, ISIS, The Proud Boys, etc. it is an anti-fascist philosophy. So if you’re actively against antifa, that necessarily puts you on the side of fascists. Keep that in mind when looking at who is vocally against antifa and trying to demonize antifa.
Executive order.
Executive orders only affect federal workers.
Opposing Israel is not synonymous with Antifa.
POTUS designated it a terrorist organization happened.
It’s unrelated to this conversation.
It’s not an organization
So what? It’s a legal terrorist organization.
Check the news.
Declaring it’s an organization doesn’t make it an organization.
Sorry about the dementia, but at least you can be more like dear leader.
It’s not an organization
It’s just synonymous with American patriotism
That’s not the point, I was shutting down right wing rhetoric.
Sorry misread your comment out with the dog. I agree, it’s just common sense.
What right wing rhetoric? They just made a factual statement. Antifa WAS declared a terrorist org. It’s insane nonsense that doesn’t even define what antifa is but it’s true.
We’re not talking about antifa is the point because he’s unrelated to them.
My understanding of their incredibly vague comment that you are reading an awful lot into, is that terrorist designations are silly and mean mostly nothing because the people doing the designating are untrustworthy.
But you can feel however you want about things
We need more politicians involved in dismantling oppressive systems and seeking unity. He’s showing Dems the way a path forwards. What Democratic leadership is pushing hasn’t worked for a while, maybe try to learn.
Jpost? OK guess I’ll just go with what the state says…
I didn’t even notice the source on my first read…. On second read I still think Mamdani is doing excellent work :)
Oh I’m all for Mamdani, just would like to see links from better sources.
100% I just find it funny in this instance and even from that perspective, he still comes out looking like a champion.
He might be a filthy half-measure loving democratic socialist, but he does occasionally do the right thing.
He is moving the overton window back to the left tho
Hahaha the leftists have purity tested MAMDANI out of their circle. You can’t make this shit up, Lemmy
Mamdani would be like a center left politician in Europe. I guess for most Americans anything slightly to the left of a Hillary Clinton is the limit of the left spectrum.
Go outside. Touch grass. Deprogram.
Taking a break from denying China’s systematic human rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang to talk shit about Mamdani, are we? Democratic socialism not totalitarian enough for your liking?
