‘Truth-telling’ Hochul lets Mamdani’s ‘genocide’ – Latest News
“Not telling the truth is something that needs to be called out,” sniffs Gov. Kathy Hochul of Benjamin Netanyahu’s charge that Mayor Zohran Mamdani helps Hamas — but she’s silent on Mamdani’s “genocide” lie.
The gov preached on truth-telling after the Israeli prime minister’s thundering UN handle Thursday, but it surely’s hardly the primary time she fudged details for Zohran.
She insists he’s criticized Hamas and the Oct. 7 assaults, however the mayor routinely dances across the query, as when he did final October.
“I don’t really have opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel,” Mamdani instructed Fox News, “beyond the question of justice and safety and the fact that anything has to abide by international law and that applies to Hamas, that applies to the Israeli military.”
The “international law” he routinely invokes is no such factor, by the best way — what he (and different Israel-bashers) factors to on that entrance is nothing however the politicized posturing of UN functionaries chosen by diplomats devoted to Israel’s destruction.
Having no “opinions” about Hamas — and both-sidesing the matter by placing the phobia group and Israel in the identical class — is a smarmy solution to elevate a theocratic death cult whereas denigrating an precise democratic nation battling a ruthless foe devoted to its destruction and the slaughter of its people.
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Mamdani spent months refusing to denounce the terrorist motto “Globalize the Intifada,” claiming “intifada” is a impartial time period which means “shaking off” and pretending the phrase merely requires human rights.
While he personally doesn’t use the time period, he says, he additionally sees nothing unsuitable with it.
But Mamdani has in reality long stood in assist of international terror.
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In 2021 he addressed a rally below a signal studying “Only one solution: Intifada, Revolution”; in 2017 he wrote a rap tune praising the “Holy Land Five,” reps of a pretend charity convicted of sending money to — shock — Hamas.
Meanwhile, Hochul’s dedication to the reality hasn’t led her to call out Mamdani’s incessant falsehoods about Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza.
Why? Because Hochul, like Sen. Chuck Schumer and the remainder of the Democratic management, doesn’t dare stand up to their celebration’s anti-Israel radicals.
Schumer, who for many years proclaimed himself Israel’s protector in Congress, is even directing hundreds of thousands to the marketing campaign of Michigan antisemite Abdul El-Sayed.
However typically Israel’s foes redefine “genocide” to allow them to apply the phrase to Gaza, the charge stays what Bibi referred to as it Thursday: “the lie of the century.”
When Democrats like Hochul shy from calling out that fact, they’re displaying their submission to their celebration’s actual chief, and its utter lack of precept.
