Stephen Eskilson

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Mayor Mamdani did not simply express a personal political opinion. He used the authority, symbolism, and credibility of the mayor’s office to issue what amounted to an official public address declaring that the democratically elected leader of the world’s only Jewish state is a ‘war criminal’ who is ‘not welcome in New York City.’ That is a profound misuse of the office entrusted to him by all New Yorkers.

After acknowledging that New York City has no independent legal authority to execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant, the mayor nevertheless chose to transform that legal reality into a televised political spectacle. Respect for the separation of powers and the legal limits of public office is a bedrock of American democracy; those limits should not be treated as an inconvenience to be exploited for political theater.

Perhaps most telling was what the mayor chose to leave out. His address made no mention of Hamas or the October 7 massacre of innocent civilians. Instead, he delivered a sweeping moral indictment of Israel while erasing the terrorist atrocities that ignited this war. Appeals to universal humanity and justice ring hollow when they exclude the victims whose suffering does not fit a preferred political narrative.

This is no longer simply about Prime Minister Netanyahu. It reflects a broader pattern in which Mayor Mamdani repeatedly singles out Israel while using the prestige of his office to legitimize rhetoric that further isolates the Jewish state and deepens division here at home. At a time when Jewish New Yorkers are experiencing alarming levels of antisemitism, harassment and intimidation, they deserve a mayor who refrains from fomenting hatred against the world’s only Jewish country while maintaining the fiction that this is not anti-Jewish.

Throughout his campaign, Mayor Mamdani repeatedly insisted that his responsibility as mayor would be to focus on New York City and the issues affecting New Yorkers. New Yorkers elected him to make their neighborhoods safer, combat hate and unite a diverse city, not to conduct foreign policy or transform City Hall into a stage for ideological declarations about world leaders.

New Yorkers elected a mayor, not a prosecutor of foreign leaders. Mayor Mamdani should spend less time trying to demonize only one leader and one country from City Hall and more time protecting the New Yorkers he was elected to serve.

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@faustocoppi60 So embarrassing for Spain

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Mother writes: My daughter Adar Ben Simon, 20, is a commander and fighter in a rescue and search unit.

On Simchat Torah (October 7, 2023) she heard that terrorists had infiltrated the Zikim base, Adar did not hesitate and protected 120 recruits.

She put all the recruits in a protected room and went out to fight the terrorists and fought with all her might!

And finally she fell in battle.

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FYI Spain is one of the most anti-Israel nations in Europe, surpassed only (possibly) by Ireland.

The crew of the plane called the Spanish Guardia, armed Spanish police to forcibly remove the kids.

This was part of the war for Palestine.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

NEW DETAILS ABOUT THE ANTISEMITIC VUELING FLIGHT INCIDENT:

The family of the 21-year-old camp director — the one we saw violently arrested and handcuffed on the floor — has shared new information.

After her arrest, the young woman was taken alone into a room inside the airport with a police officer, leaving the children scared and abandoned in the terminal.

While alone with the officer, she was told she would be banned from entering Spain for two years. He then began questioning her about Israel.

To be clear: this woman is French. She was managing a group of 40 French Jewish children, aged 13 to 15, on a trip to Spain.

There is absolutely no connection to Israel.

As a reminder, the young woman was removed from the plane by police, along with the children, for singing in Hebrew.

They were then ordered to hand over their phones and delete any videos.

When she refused to comply with this illegal and alarming demand, she was thrown to the floor and arrested, in front of 40 terrified children.

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This growing "soft BDS" in which Jewish writers and books about Israel are considered too dangerous to touch is antisemitism plain and simple. By canceling a book for simply having the word “Israel” in its title, @shelfawareness is giving into a fear that is erasing Jewish voices from the literary industry.
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