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”.
Israel’s response came hours after Mamdani issued an order to rescind all executive orders that Adams issued after he was indicted on federal corruption charges in 2024 – charges that were later, controversially, dropped.
Who gives a fuck what Israel thinks?
Criticizing Israel is not Antisemitism.
It will never be Antisemitism.
It is an assault on non-israeli jews world wide to try to claim valid critisim of Israel is antisemitism. It is an intentional and malicious undermining of what Antisemitism is, to try and claim it has anything, whatsoever, to do with valid criticism of the racist, genocidal state of Israel.
at this point that’s a compliment
“Anyone who hates me is an antisemite!” - The Israeli Guide to Genocide
“Antisemetic” now means “disagrees with the agenda of the Israeli government and military,” which currently involves the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the disruption of the economy, government, and society of all NATO nations and allies, and normalizing human rights abuses around the world.
We need more of these so-called “antisemites” in the US and other governments.
The fact the political establishment is this afraid of one mayor in one city with these ideas is all the indication you need to know these ideas are in our (the working people’s) best interests.
To be fair, it has meant that for a while now.
Agreed. It would more accurate to say it’s no longer a secret
I don’t really follow the “anti-semitism” argument. AFAIK, Ashkenazi Jews like Netanyahu are basically European (a.k.a., white folks) with a little Semitic ancestry mixed in, whereas Palestinians are more or less pure Semites. Maybe the “anti-semitism” spiel holds up when comparing themselves to other Europeans, but how is this anything more than the usual white imperialists fabricating a philosophy to justify killing brown people and taking their land?
Its like “democratic republic” of North Korea, or national “socialists”. They are none of these things, it’s authoritarianism in cosplay.
Fascists know their ideas are unpopular, that’s why they always pretend to be something else
You’re right, Ashkenazi are Europeans. Antisemitism just means Jewish supremacists don’t like you.
Projection?
Peak Irony: The nation that has very purposefully done the most to spread the impression that Genocide and Mass Murdering of Children is a Jewish trait and thus has endangered countless innocent Jews all over the World, claims that somebody who is against the kind of action that nation commits is against the Jewish People.
Fellas, is it antisemetic to perform your mayoral duties to New York City instead of Tel Aviv?
Not bending over fast enough to lick the boots of Zionists/Neue-Nazis is antisemitic!
Of course it is! You must fall to the feet of the chosen people, didn’t you know?
Ironic that one would post complaints about antisemitism on shitter, the platform whose very owner did a full on Hitler salute on live television in front of thousands of a local audience as well. twice!
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IKR? Everyone loved Jews until Israel started in 1948.
Oh come on, that’s not what they’re saying. Israel certainly isn’t helping things.
They’re a 3 day old account doing nothing but defend Israel. There’s no use arguing with them.
Looking at their short history, looks like mods are taking out the bot trash
he scraps the IHRA definition of antisemitism and lifts restrictions on boycotting Israel.
Which the IHRA itself adopted as a non-legally binding working definition. It is explicitly not meant to be used in a legal context.
If something displeases Israel, it very much pleases me. Please continue Mr. Mamdani!
Being anti Israel is not the same as being antisemitic, it’s being anti-zionist.
You’ll never convince zionists of that though
they know it, they are just using antisemitism as a free pass
True. But fuck them.
anti zionist you say, hmm interesting
In fact, being pro Israel is antisemitic
Jewish people are in more danger thanks to Israel. So yeah.
In fact, the zionists co-operated with Hitler, which many Jews didn’t exactly agree with.
If you play it all out to its logical conclusion you are absolutely right.
“Only two groups benefit from the conflation of zionism and Judaism: zionists, to legitimize zionism; and anti-semites, to vilify Judaism.”
These days it can just be being pro-humanity and anti-genocide.
Zionism is a nazi ideology. It’s the idea the Jewish people don’t belong among us but should be confined to a land of their own, far away. It’s literally a part of history, it just was madagascar instead of Palestine.
you know those commies, they’re your friend until they aren’t
What are you talking about
Repeat after me: being anti-Israel (government) is not being anti-Semitic. Being anti-Hamas is not being Islamophobic. When you are against assholes and warcrimes you are anti-asshole and anti-warcriminal.
I never heard pro hamas saying being against Hamas is islamophobic
No, they say being anti Hamas is Zionist.
No they say that to those who want to deflect from the fact that Israel is the occupier
Pardon my French but WHAT THE FUCK does Israel’s opinion on the mayor from a city half way around the globe have to do with anythingv
NYC has the largest jewish commiunity outside israel, many of which anti-zionists, and it shows how people of different faiths can co-live peacefully, so you can see why isreal wants to influence our politics
breaking my hiatus to say this:
New York is the present day Lviv in what it meant to Jewish identity before the rise of zionism following the Odessa Pogroms. israel knows this. they want to re-evoke the origins of their movement. they want to control what it means to be Jewish.
but Jewishness is defined for a lot of Jews not by our connection to Levantine soil, but instead our opposition to oppression. fuck zionism forever. and fuck its need to reignite hate against semitic people to create a self fulfilling prophecy that we cannot be safe in our own communities.
israel is pharaoh.
It’s clear why they want to but why are our news outlets amplifying their messages. They shouldn’t be
but why are our news outlets amplifying their messages. They shouldn’t be
Because “our” “news” outlets are owned by the same people who funded the opposition to Mamdani in the first place.
The Guardian, which isn’t a US site, highlighting Israel’s misdirection and dishonesty
“our news outlets amplifying their messages”
Ah yes. Well noticed there, gewd jerb.
P.S. Apparently you’re not aware that I can see you downvoting every single comment of mine, as if that helps your ridiculous stance in any way. So far you downvoted three of my comments that have nothing to do with this thread.
P.P.S. This loser is going through my whole comment history downvoting the comments.
The Guardian has been massively pro-Israel for most of their Genocide in Gaza and even now that they toned down the very overt support for it, still uses two-tiered language when it comes to Israel and Palestinians, such as using “says” or “states” for statements from the former whilst for the latter using “claims”, reporting on deaths by saying that Israelis “were killed” whilst Palestinians merely “died”, describing attacks on civilians as “terrorism” if done by Hamas but not if done by Israel and, more generally, using the kind of language towards Israel that produces the impression of them being “righteous” and “one of us” whilst for Palestinians languages that dehumanizes them and/or produces the impression of them being “criminals” and “not one of us”.
Further, The Guardian is pretty much “The Voice Of The English Upper and Upper Middle Class”, who are definitely people siding with American fatcats same as they side with their own fatcats and with pretty much the entire elite privilege-preserving infrastructure over there (their coverage of The Royals is the very definition of “fawning”).
They’re basically the British equivalent of the New York Times.
So yeah, it’s absolutely logical to suspect that The Guardian are purposefully “amplifying their messages” because that’s something entirely consistent with how they’ve always treated Israel.
I know they are a uk based news outlet but they are popular here and market to Americans like they expect us to read it and they still aren’t Israeli so what’s your point?
Also it not just this paper reporting this crap it’s nonstop.
Oh no! A UK-based news outlet dares to write about things happening outside of the UK, unlike every other news outlet in the world. And they’ve become popular in the US, how dare they! This definitely means they’re ‘our’ US news site, like every cowardly and duplicitous US news outlet, which is all of them.
And they’re also still ‘aren’t Israeli’, whatever the fuck that means despite The Guardian consistently criticizing Israel’s attempts at the inflammatory foreign policy and comments, and you being deliberately blind to all of that. So what does your incoherent drivel mean?
P.S. I can still see you downvoting my unrelated comments, dummy.
I was saying that a news outlet that I used to respect is using their platform to amplify the propaganda of a hostile foreign leader. I don’t understand what your problem is with that. Maybe you just have problems in general?
I said “our news outlets” because this is a place I normally get my news you fucking idiot.
I was expressing disgust with the paper I read. But you really got me!
amplify the propaganda of a hostile foreign leader
Not only you’re dumb beyond belief as to interpret things as that, but of course you also downvote every comment of mine here and there as if they have anything to do with anything, like that helps your argument in any way.
Please continue to spout ridiculous nonsense as to how any site you ever visited is “your news outlet”, that will surely fortify your view.
New York is just outside of greater Israel.
/s
New York City has 8.4m people in it; 15% (1.3m) of them are Jewish, making them a key cultural and political group. New York City also has an outsized (if dropping) cultural and political influence on the US.
There are 7.3m Jewish people in Israel, and NYC is the largest population of Jewish people outside Israel, meaning that NYC actions and opinions may have more of an influence within Israel than opinions from elsewhere.
NYC is also seen as a huge, vibrant, peaceful, multicultural city; the longtime headquartering of the United Nations there, the largest financial capital in the world, etc - all give it an emotional and cultural impact.
Here’s the thing: when Americans look at Mamdani’s election, we see a rejection of the current US political parties, a pushback against the oligarchs, late-stage capitalism, and the corruption and fascism of the right. For most of the people (at least on the US center and left) Mamdani’s religion doesn’t factor into much (if anything).
For a certain segment of Jewish Israelis who heavily lean into that identity, the election of a Muslim mayor is a threat, especially one as driven and charismatic as Mamdani. And there’s a political class in Israel who is willing to promote and exploit that fear, in order to gain their own goals, whether that’s increased political power, more money, or simply avoiding going to prison.
This makes it sound like Israel is trying to activate Zionist sleeper agents
You don’t need zionist sleeper agents, you just need to pay some money to a troll farm.
Israel is an important and well-intergrated piece of the US empire so they get a say in how the empire is run. Working class new yorkers don’t matter in the same way.
To translate into the lies of empire: israel’s importance to foreign policy goals and deep cultural ties make it an interested commentator on domestic politics.
Why does the mayor of NYC need to have an opinion of Israel? He’s not the Secretary of State
The billions that goes to Israel can be used to improve New Yorker lives. As a new york mayor he need to let people have the freedom to express boycott movements
You should know that the former NYC mayor banned criticism/divestment of/from Israel thus creating a domestic law about a foreign nation. Mamdani is simply removing that domestic law and thus erasing a foreign nation from New York’s governance dictionary.
He is actually doing what you are asking for.
He can punch up why is Israel punching down
