New York City Mayor Mamdani just gave one of the most amazing speeches you will ever hear:
"We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, and more powerful than everyone else.
"The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed. We may have walked on the moon. But the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence — that work endures, and it belongs to us all.
"It belongs, too, to our newest Americans: those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I, too, felt what you feel: the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American, too.
"You each hold a special power: the power to determine what America means.
"The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom; where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.
"How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal.
"At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics — and the cheapest.
"But time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress."
Omer Bartov is an Israeli professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. His new book, “Israel: What Went Wrong?,” argues that Zionism has morphed into an ideology of extremism that led to genocide in Gaza following the Hamas attacks of October 7th. He joins David Remnick on #RadioHour to discuss. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/N13NpruPW0
The Gaza ceasefire brokered by Donald Trump has effectively collapsed for weeks. Israel is escalating killings and airstrikes against civilians—just moments ago, five people were killed in Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City.
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth ordered the strike that murdered every one of these girls from the Shajareh Tayebeh School in Minab, Iran
And they did it for Israel
We don't even need the Epstein files to know we're led by child slaughtering demons
Images that should haunt the world. Funeral graves of 165 young school girls killed in Israeli/US bombing that hit a school in Mina in Iran. Far away from Trumpian comfort in Mar-a-Lago. SAY NO TO WAR!. #StopTheWar
@narendramodi@netanyahu What the fuck are you doing, Modi? Calling the ICC indicted war criminal and the architect of genocide in Gaza your friend? It's like calling Hitler your friend! Let history remember this post!
@TimothyS@thenation You can only draw the conclusion that The Nation is genocidal and white-supremacist, with a coat of a seemingly leftist publication
@tkham73@dominictsz if you were in Hong Kong, Lai wanted to finish you also, in a minute. You would be happy with that as you believe that was a metaphoric nuclear bombing, of course.
My full AJ Forum speech last week: the common enemy of humanity is THE SYSTEM that has enabled the genocide in Palestine, including the financial capital that funds it, the algorithms that obscure it and the weapons that enable it.
@yuujirou451241@xijinping_bot That’s exactly why you received the A-bombs as a punishment for invading your neighbor countries with genocide. Would you like to repeat that history?