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.

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    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.

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    “Israel says…” and “Israel accuses…” now have the same credibility and value as “Trump says…” or “Trump accuses…”

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    Mandami lifted a rule stating you cannot stop doing buainess with isreal.

    He gave people the FREEDOM to choose to stop dealing witb isreal. And of course, let the crybabies come out of the woodwork.

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        Do you also think Mossad killed Charlie Kirk?

        Candace Owens is batshit crazy, but even she doesn’t make conspiracy theory accusations before there’s even a death to invent conspiracy theories about.

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          No and my remark was mostly a joke. I don’t think Mossad cares much about Mamdani. Not yet anyway.

          I DO think they’re likely to have been behind the Epstein-Maxwell pedo ring if we’re getting conspiratorial. There’s circumstantial evidence, but no smoking gun. 1) a former CIA spy said that compromising people is very much Mossad playbook. 2) Maxwell’s dad was a double or triple agent with Mossad ties. 3) some prominent Israeli politicians like Ehud Barak were very close to Epstein.

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            You don’t think every intelligence agency in the world was keeping tabs on a blackmail campaign involving powerful people?

            You’re just saying the CIA and Mossad were doing their jobs LOL.

            Trafficking women from Eastern Europe is the Russian Mafia’s jam, but apparently you can’t even imagine Putin being involved at all. Why do conspiritards make wild accusations about everyone other than Putin? Ever once wonder who’s making up these conspiracy theories?

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              No I mean they were financing it and arranging it. Of course every intelligence agency that knew about it would’ve kept tabs on it if they were able to get someone on the inside. But the most likely candidate for the actual ownership of the ring is Mossad as far as currently easily available info suggests. Not like I’ve done any super deep research for it.

              If you have something tying Epstein to Putin, why not share with the rest of the class? It would be interesting to learn more.

              Also the thing with Putin conspiracy theories is that they’re usually not just theories. There’s paper trails for Russian funding of right wing groups in Europe and the US. Everything was going right by the Foundations of Geopolitics playbook till he overplayed his hand in Ukraine.

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          I mean, Trump could just tell CIA to go ahead and grant permission if Bibi asks him to. It’s not that difficult to make things like that happen in the current admin.

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    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.

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    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?

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    The word antisemitism used to carry weight, now thanks to Israel it doesn’t really anymore

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      That’s what fascists do. Take terms that are commonly understood to mean something serious and use it against every person/group they don’t like until it loses all meaning. Then when the fascists are inevitably found to be acting exactly like that term originally described, they can discredit whoever is accusing them because “everyone uses that word for everything, you just don’t like us” despite being the cause of that problem in the first place.

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        So you disagree with scholars and almost of the entirety of the international community who have labeled it as a genocide?

        Sorry, but the general consensus is very clear on this one, and it isn’t even close. Genocide denial is not a good look, and you’re really telling on yourself here.

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      I disagree.

      In terms of Moral guidance their opinion is pretty much a perfect compass pointing exactly in the opposite direction of the one people should be aiming for.

      When Evil rages about somebody, you know that person is on the side of Good.

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    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!