My heart goes to the innocent civilians in Beirut who are paying a hefty price for the madness of Hezbollah and the weakness of the Lebanese government.
The post is disgraceful and yet so entirely unsurprising.
Mamdani describes Khalil as a victim of “cruelty” who was punished merely for exercising his First Amendment rights while protesting what he calls the “ongoing genocide in Palestine.”
What Mamdani does not mention is who Mahmoud Khalil actually is — and what he has actually said.
Khalil has publicly defended “armed resistance,” saying: “We’ve tried armed resistance, which is legitimate under international law, but Israel calls it terrorism.”
He justified the October 7 attack as something that “had to happen” to “break the cycle,” even suggesting it was tied to the prospect of a Saudi-Israel normalization deal.
This is the man Mamdani chose to honor at Gracie Mansion.
And he did so while repeating the blood libel that Israel is committing an “ongoing genocide.”
Think about that for a moment.
The mayor of New York — home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel — is hosting a man who rationalizes the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, while accusing the Jewish state of genocide.
None of this should surprise anyone who has followed Mamdani’s political trajectory.
He emerged from the SJP ecosystem and the activist networks that helped normalize slogans like “globalize the intifada” on American campuses.
And the ideological environment around him has already shown sympathy for the atrocities of October 7 — his own wife had liked social media posts celebrating the attacks and denying the sexual violence committed that day.
So no, this post is not shocking.
What is shocking is that someone who speaks this language now represents power in New York City.
"I don't like Hitler but we have no right to intervene in Germany and it could be even worse if he left"
- Western "progressives" if they lived in 1945
In a surprise to nobody the New York Times published op-eds it presented as written by an innocent Gaza doctor who turned out to be….a Hamas colonel
https://t.co/T88A5V6QGD
As the grandson of Holocaust survivors who has studied that era extensively from all sides, I find these types of claims absurd. They are not only disrespectful to history but also undermine the very arguments currently being made. If someone is unhappy with a present day situation, they should do the far more difficult work of developing a reasoned case for why it is wrong instead of resorting to lazy comparisons.
For 2025, I counted about 110 @amnesty tweets against Israel compared to 6 on Sudan, 6 on Hamas, 10 on Myanmar and 18 on Russia/Ukraine.
"Obsession" is too weak a word to describe Amnesty's insane fixation on the Jewish state.
Why would Doctors Without Borders agree to only partial disclosure? What does a humanitarian organization have to hide?
Israel has repeatedly demanded transparency from Gaza-based organizations over possible ties to terrorist groups. Only after Israel revoked MSF’s operating licenses did the organization agree to release a partial list of its employees.
If MSF were truly confident that none of its staff had links to Hamas, it would disclose the entire list, not a carefully filtered one.
A humanitarian organization shouldn’t have anything to hide.
I have zero patience for our NYC politicians who have spent the past two years playing footsie with far left radicals trying to terrorize the Jewish community, only to walk back their violent rhetoric once they realize what they’ve unleashed
My online feed includes Venezuelans celebrating Maduro’s ouster, Iranians praying for their own revolution, and some Western leftists doing their best to whitewash the brutal autocracies in Caracas and Tehran.