🎥 “Who else is leading a cause that we will glorify in retrospect, but is being vilified in the present?”
Speaking at the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Global Leadership Forum, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani drew a direct line from Mandela’s refusal to abandon the Palestinian cause to the fight for global solidarity and Palestinian freedom today.
Recalling how Mandela was branded a terrorist and pressured to renounce his principles, Mamdani asked: “Who are we treating today the way Madiba was treated before history declared him a messiah?”
Citing Omar El Akkad’s book on the genocide in Gaza, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” Mamdani said “justice is not measured by where we stand after history has issued its verdict. It is measured by where we stand when the verdict is still being rendered.”
“Why must Doctor Hussam Abu Safiya wait more than 18 months for freedom in Israeli detention,” he asked, “after the world watched him be kidnapped as he left his hospital?”
“Why must we wait to practice solidarity until it no longer costs us anything?”
@NYCMayor | @cspan (Full speech available at the link below)
I'm told the reason a lot of people on the far-left are supporting Dr. Abdul El-Sayed over Rep. Haley Stevens is due to policy outlook, and yet, what I keep seeing are people on the far-left obsessed with mocking her appearance, voice, and mannerisms.
Weird campaign strategy.