Agreed, except that’s not Mamdani, that’s Abdul El-Sayed.
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schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I really liked Mamdami’s answer: Israel has a right to exist as a state with equal rights for all (or something like that). Thing is, people could only get angry if they were willing to argue for a Jewish supremacist state, which of course they blindly do, but everyone watching is like, “Wait a minute. I want Israel to exist, of course, but I don’t like arpartheid.”
Janx@piefed.social 21 hours ago
El-Sayed’s response really is great, and the perfect example of how to respond to “AnTiSeMiTiSm” accusations. Just like the US and other countries, you’re allowed to criticize leaders and countries. To be a patriot it’s actually required…
7101334@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I can understand that answer from a politician. I can understand why Mamdani gave that answer.
But Israel has no right to exist period, under any context, unless “Israel” is a government-sanctioned province of the Palestinian state overseen by the rightful owners of the land on which it is based: the Palestinians.
It is stolen land. It is to be returned.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
That’s kind of tricky, though. How far back into history would you need to go to find the truly “rightful” owners of that long contested land?
zbyte64@awful.systems 19 hours ago
In the context of Isreal, who is actively taking land at this moment, you don’t really need to go back in history.
7101334@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
To Palestinians.
bufalo1973@piefed.social 18 hours ago
Would you ask that about Crimea?