Criticizing Israel for bombing Beirut after Hezbollah drone strikes on northern Israel failed to kill civilians is like criticizing the police for shooting the sniper who fired on innocent bystanders and missed.
The same Mayor Mamdani who says he won't join the Israel Parade because of the government, marched with a smile on his face at the Pakistan Independence Day parade.
Pakistan 🇵🇰
- Is a global transit point for human trafficking
- Sees 1000+ honor killings of women a year
- Has one of the highest rates of heroin addiction in the world
- Its army raped ~200,000-400,00 women and killed between 300,000 and 3 million people during a war with Bangladesh in 1971, in what is widely recognized as a genocide
- Multiple terror groups operate in the country and killed 100s in attacks in just the last year
None of those are reasons for individual Pakistanis to stop marching for their country; random citizens are not responsible for an entire country's failures.
But they are reasons why the Mayor's stance betrays a double standard.
Mayors are responsible for ALL of their city's residents, no matter what country they are from.
When I was in my 20’s I was on a TV show. When Karen Bass was in her 20’s, she was training in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare with communists in Cuba. Back when the LA Times was still in LA, and used to tell the truth…