New in PJ Media:
It’s hard to believe that there could be a candidate who is too far to the left even for Democrat politicians who behave as if Uncle Joe Stalin were a MAGA Republican, but such is the Democrat Party these days. New York’s left-of-Castro Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-Planned Parenthood) has come out against the Muslim Marxist candidate for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani. When you’ve lost even Kirsten Gillibrand, it might be a good time for you to pause and engage in some reflection about whether heading back in the direction of sanity might be a good idea. But whether Mamdani will do this remains an open question.
Gillibrand appeared on radio host Brian Lehrer’s WNYC radio show on Thursday and took Mamdani to task for refusing to denounce the phrase “globalize the intifada.” After a caller expressed concern about this, Gillibrand said: “The caller is exactly the New York constituents that I’ve spoken to that are alarmed. They are alarmed by past public statements. They are alarmed by past positions, particularly references to global jihad. This is a very serious issue because people that glorify the slaughter of Jews create fear in our communities. The global intifada is a statement that means destroy Israel and kill all the Jews.” That is true. Intifada means “uprising” or “rebellion,” and during the two intifadas that Palestinian Arabs declared against Israel, numerous Israeli civilians were killed.
Gillibrand went on to call upon Mamdani to assure New York City voters that he would “protect all Jews and protect houses of worship and protect funding for not-for-profits that meet the needs of these communities.” She intimated that she was working with Mamdani and was making progress in this direction: “One of the issues I did talk to him about yesterday was exactly this issue, and he has agreed to work with me on this and to protect all residents.”
Lehrer, however, disputed Gillibrand’s claim that Mamdani was as radical as she had said. “On Mamdani,” he said to her, “I just feel compelled to say we can find no evidence that he has supported Hamas or has supported violent jihad…. Can you? He was never out there saying ‘globalize the intifada.’ He was asked about others who used it.”
This was technically true. Mamdani has not used the phrase. He has, however, also refused to condemn it. In mid-June, he said in an interview with The Bulwark: “To me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights.” He didn’t say anything about the Israeli civilians murdered during the First and Second Intifadas, and even went so far as to add: “And I think what’s difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic, because it’s a word that means struggle.”
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mike says
The Democrats allowed this to happen. Democrats promise nothing and deliver nothing but party lines & control policies.
Paul Bunting says
Far-left radical Dems like Gillibrand have cultivated the likes of Mamdani for the past 60 years starting with the 1965 Immigration Reform Act. Dems have catered and pandered to “immigrants” for too many years and now we see the results.
White Progressives like Gillibrand called people “racists fearmongers” when they warned us.
Huh?!? says
It does not matter what he says to appease Gillibrand. He will just tell what she wants to hear. Is Gillibrand that dumb? The Intifada will begin in New York. This man is an Islamic political Jihadist. An Islamist with Marxist leanings. I read a post on this site that it takes a special kind of stupid to vote for this. Evidently New Yorkers are a special kind of stupid. Sad.
Lady of the Lake says
Muslims toss about the phrase “human rights” as if they know what it means. In my opinion “human rights” is not an islamic concept, therefore the meaning is truly inconceivable to any muslim. Even the converts do not grasp it in the way Judaic (Western) societies do. They cannot because it has to be generationally experienced as to meaning. Lost in translation big time.
somehistory says
She needs to know that….just like the ghouls at planned genocide of the unborn…mzscums lie.
It doesn’t matter if he tells her that he will stop saying “intifada” plans. They are taught to lie when it will further islime and its takeover of the earth.
It doesn’t matter if he proclaims that Israel has a right to exist and…a right to self-defense, to respond to the violence perpetrated against them.
Because they lie to get what they want. The only Truth that comes from them are the times they threaten what they are going to do …rape, murder, replace every religion and culture with islime.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Sorry, she has no credibility. Her brand of elitist politics (remember her presidential campaign in 2020?) was what gave rise to the likes of Mamdani
abu taleb says
If Mamdani is succesfull in power, then Gillibrand will suddenly support him. There is no moral standard, only a goal that needs to pursuit, namely power and money.