ComradeFalco

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[Pal-Awda NY/NJ @pal_awda]

🧵No Politician is Above Critique
Our Demand for Tangible Action from Mayor Mamdani

On Wednesday, October 7, 2026, working-class students and community members took to the streets to protest three years of accelerated genocide against the Palestinian people. What followed was a frenzied effort to stifle our outcry and an attempt to paint the united, Palestinian-led front as "fringe," "psy-ops," "not representative of the electoral base," or "ultra-left."

But while Mayor Zohran Mamdani engages in acts of political theater, our demands have been simple and consistent: we call for a stop to the sale of stolen Palestinian land, disbandment of the Strategic Response Group (SRG) that terrorizes our community, removal of Zionist Jessica Tisch as Commissioner, and CUNY's divestment from war and settler-colonial funding.

We reject those who say that we are unrealistic and impatient, and that Mayor Mamdani is doing all he can. Let us be clear: no politician is above critique. Mayor Mamdani achieved his success because of our movements; without our communities, he has no base.

We reject analysis that values words — no matter how eloquent or sleekly deployed — over tangible action. Our campaigns and demands are designed with a clear goal in mind: to starve the genocidal Zionist entity of its material base in the imperial core, including by targeting the torrent of money, weapons, and settlers that flows from New York City.

It is in that spirit that we applauded then-Assembly Member Mamdani in pushing for the Not on Our Dime Act in 2021. And it is in that spirit that we protest his unacknowledged and inexplicable failure to take concrete action now. Until the mayor uses his formidable powers to follow through on the movement's demands, we will not celebrate symbolic wins.

We commend the Mayor for rejecting AIPAC money. However, when he unveils a $26 Million "Anti-Semitism Strategy" — which feeds on AJC statistics tying anti-semitism to pro-Palestine speech, and guarantees escalated policing by the NYPD — his words ring hollow.
As Mayor of New York, Mamdani occupies a seat that is by design complicit in suffering and violence. His seat was red before he even sat in it. The Mayor has been clear about the limits of his power, and what he cannot do. However, he has failed to answer as we and other New Yorkers call on him, time and again, to respond to the demands that are indisputably within his control.

1) Mayor Mamdani CAN apply pressure to stop the illegal sale of stolen Palestinian land. It is within the Mayor's power to call on the New York State Attorney General to investigate, audit, and stop illegal Palestinian land sale events that violate state, federal, and international law.
2) Mayor Mamdani CAN hold houses of worship and organizations accountable for violations. It is within the Mayor's power to revoke the local tax-exempt status of non-profit organizations that participate in illegal Palestinian land sales.

3) Mayor Mamdani CAN disband the Strategic Response Group (SRG) and remove Zionist Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. The Mayor has primary command over the NYPD. SRG arrested hundreds who protested Netanyahu's visit, has repeatedly collaborated with ICE—most recently in the Bronx last Thursday—and continues to brutalize protesters at illegal Palestinian land sales.The Mayor must act on his promises and disband this force immediately.

Since the so-called "War on Terror," our communities have been criminalized, coerced, and fear-mongered into believing that the only way to gain power is via electoral positions. Twenty-five years later, we reject this. We will no longer accept concessions and normalization when genocide and war wages on in our home countries. We no longer accept the racist, Islamophobic notions of the "Good Muslim" or "Good Arab." We will no longer be forced to accept that the only way we will win is by having the most "left, Palestine-friendly mayor" in the history of New York City.
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[welcome to our trash revolution @trash_panda97]

just pointing out that the same orgs who were attacked for protesting zohran this week have been calling for him to drop tisch for a year. as NYC-DSA finally begins to echo that call, we should pause before dismissing and denigrating these groups. they were remarkably prescient.

[Jeremy Kaplowitz @jeremysmiles]

a democrat turned on by the idea that he can't do anything? now i've heard it all

[Peter Sterne @petersterne]

The contradiction between a socialist mayor who wants to abolish ICE and the police force he nominally controls wanting to maintain order by arresting and attacking protesters trying to stop ICE are not going away.

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

The “Israeli peace group” that Zohran Mamdani spent time with on October 7th posting stuff on their story calling the folks who counter protested them a “mob” that is a “Hamas proxy” who stand for “Islamic supremacy”. Amazing.

[CCNY Students for Justice in Palestine @ccnysjpofficial]

We stand in full solidarity with NYC-YDSA students. Read their statement regarding NYC-DSA repression which occured in response to YDSA student chapters endorsing yesterday's rally: https://t.co/uMX4Kiid9x

[canceled for all the wrong reasons @comradejumpshot]

at the one general meeting nycdsa has ever had, people wanting to talk about this were called 'childish' by leadership

[full slack @fullslack_]

Even if you support him, it’s valid to criticize Zohran over not ending illegal West Bank land sales in synagogues, and instead, further protecting them. It’s valid to criticize him over funding the Zionist JCRC. If that is not valid & reasonable, what is?

[reluctant labor notes trainer 🌺 @kampongovan]

explicit violation of pacbi/bds movement’s ongoing boycott on standing together

[Springs of Revolution 🌺 @SOR4DSA]

Palestinians have demonstrated to the workers of the world a generational struggle for liberation — an injustice so abhorrent that it bonds people in solidarity to fundamentally change a world that could allow it to happen.

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

The question we should be asking ourselves isn’t “Do you condemn Hamas?” on October 7th, but rather “Do you condemn the decades of brutal Israeli colonial violence that has perpetrated a cycle of violence in Palestine and causes the suffering and displacement of millions?”

[Bisan Owda @bisanowda01]

Three years of living through the genocide carried out by Israel.

[soul khan, msw @soulkhan]

preemptive reminder that the israeli narrative of october 7, from the sexual assault allegations to the carnage only achievable via arms (esp airborne) that hamas just doesn't have, is a lurid fantasy meant to fashion the chaos of an uprising into a pretext for genocide in gaza

[World to Win @w2wdsa]

OUT NOW IN GEESE MAGAZINE: A critique of Zohran's "Strategy to Combat Antisemitism," from the World to Win Coalition 🔴

[Geese Magazine🪿 @geesemagazine]

In their statement on the MOCA "Strategy to Combat Antisemitism," World to Win argues that Mayor Mamdani’s new antisemitism strategy launders Zionist and carceral politics through the language of public safety, empowers the NYPD, and directs public money toward Zionist institutions, making the terrain more dangerous for Palestine solidarity movement in New York City.

READ:
https://t.co/uTIKvHYJqV

[ComradeFalco @Dat_Aint_Falco]

@woodsoffin Sorry for your loss comrade

[Gerard @GerardDalbon]

This group of psychotic racist zionist freaks have been doing this shit terrorizing and assaulting people repeatedly over the past years with zero consequences. Jewish supremacists run around doing endless hate crimes and somehow still taken at their word on facing antisemitism.

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

Mind you, they want us to believe they’re walking around in fear and in need of protection as if they aren’t running rampant and harassing people nonstop.

[nick @unionnick]

@Cornell Liang also suspended two graduate student activists, effectively revoking their visas. ICE hounded them in Ithaca until they left the country. Cornell is now requiring they return to the US to graduate with no guarantee of their safety. Support them here: https://t.co/BEZdbpDYvS

[nick @unionnick]

@Cornell At Cornell, one person— Christina Liang — handles every disciplinary case, including the Cornell Seven’s and the suspensions of over 40 protestors. Liang wrote in 2025 that “2024 was one of the most challenging years of my career…and it helped me learn that caring less is okay.”