Mamdani distorting St. Patrick’s Day, Irish – Latest News
As the saying goes, whenever you’re a hammer, the entire world seems like nail.
Exhibit A is the case of Mayor Mamdani, who has the nasty behavior of twisting public occasions into an alternative to bash Israel.
On Tuesday, he distorted St. Patrick’s Day and the long historical past of the Irish in New York to hijack the annual celebration and switch it into the newest instance of his shameful obsession with the Jewish state.
In the midst of reward for Ireland and its former far-left president, Mary Robinson, at a Gracie Mansion breakfast, the mayor made a bizarre detour so he may hammer away on his favourite goal.
Of Robinson, he mentioned “I think also of how she stood steadfast alongside the people of Palestine. I say this as over the past few years, as we’ve witnessed a genocide unfold before our eyes, there has been deafening silence from so many.”
In case anybody didn’t get his level, he described Robinson as a uncommon voice in advocating “for universal human rights and the extension of them to Palestinians,” including that “silence, however, is nothing new, for Palestinians are so often left to weep alone.”
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He ascribed her politics to Ireland’s historical past, saying, “Who can better understand those who weep than those who have been made to weep for so long? The story of the Irish, both in Ireland and in New York City, is at one time a story of oppression, of subjugation, and of discrimination.”
‘Colonial project’
That was a cue for an assault on Great Britain over its brutal rule of the Emerald Isle, saying “it was on Irish soil that the British Empire developed their colonial project. So a lot of the exploitation later imposed elsewhere internationally was first honed within the plantations of Ireland.
“And yet when I think of the Irish, I do not think first of oppression. I think of resistance. I think of unity,” Mamdani added, earlier than making a joking reference to corned beef and soccer.
There is nothing humorous and every thing fallacious with the mayor’s hatred for Israel. That he’s unable to chew his tongue even amidst the glory of a sunny St. Patrick’s Day reveals a disturbing compulsion.
As Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, put it in a blistering assertion, Mamdani “is a master of the politics of victimization” who appealed to “his left-wing Irish friends by reducing the the story of the Irish, both in Ireland and in New York City . . . to a story of oppression, of subjugation, and of discrimination.”
Mamdani has been doing one thing related along with his biased discount of the scenario in Gaza, particularly along with his repeated use of the phrase “genocide” to explain the battle there.
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The behavior marks him as ignorant of historical past — or a liar.
To get to his hobbyhorse, he first should ignore the precise information of Gaza, specifically that it was Hamas, not Israelis, who savagely oppressed the enclave’s 2 million Arab residents.
One key reality he by no means acknowledges is that Gaza was and nonetheless is a Palestinian-ruled state. But that independence was not good enough for the Jew-hating Hamas, which has in its constitution a pledge to wipe Israel off the map.
That is the fear group’s motive for being, and its brutal leaders have by no means given a fig about how many Palestinians must endure and die for his or her evil trigger.
The pursuit of that purpose resulted in its invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
The documented atrocities, together with the beheading and burning of youngsters, the horrors of rape and torture and the taking of 251 hostages, have by no means caught Mamdani’s consideration or interfered along with his anti-Israel prejudice.
His spouse’s social media approval of the bestiality is disturbing enough, however the mayor’s historical past on the subject just isn’t considerably higher. His present of phrases has been put into the service of defending monsters.
Double customary
His refusal to just accept Israel because the reliable homeland of the Jewish people and his help for the boycott, divest and sanctions motion marks him as an antisemite.
He has by no means utilized the identical requirements of tolerance and equality to any Muslim nation, most of which have zero Jews.
Nor did he ever object through the years when Hamas leaders had been stealing billions of {dollars} in worldwide support destined for Gaza and residing in luxurious in Qatar and Europe.
He remained silent when it was apparent that construction provides and gear that had been earmarked for Gaza housing and clean water initiatives had been diverted into building tunnels and rocket launchers for Hamas.
Even final October, when Hamas launched the ultimate hostages it had taken in exchange for Palestinian prisoners convicted in Israeli courts, he couldn’t resist the prospect to hop on the genocide bandwagon.
He wrote on X that as “New Yorkers who’ve felt the pain of the past few years . . . we have watched as our tax dollars have funded a genocide.”
He additionally fell back on different drained antisemitic speaking factors by demanding an finish to “occupation and apartheid.”
If compassion for the really oppressed had been his driving drive, New York City’s mayor would have been within the forefront of these denouncing the Iranian Islamist regime after it slaughtered some 30,000 of its residents in January for the crime of peaceable protest.
Instead, his silence spoke volumes and underscored that for him, as with so many others in his camp, a key ingredient was lacking:
No Jews, No News.
