Stop playing dumb, Mehdi. You know exactly what the grievances are. Stop strawmanning critics and exaggerating their demands. Mamdani loves to boast that New York City can serve as a model for the rest of the country. Great. Then let him spearhead a campaign to divest city funds from Israeli bonds and weapons manufacturers. Whether he can accomplish this with the stroke of a pen or must build a political campaign to force those decisions is beside the point. He has the platform, political capital, and grassroots support of the masses who elected him. Will it put him at odds with Zionist interests? Absolutely. But that is precisely the political fight that must take place if meaningful progress is to be made. Leadership isn't just exercising the powers you already possess. It's mobilizing people to achieve what those powers alone cannot. Instead, Mamdani has used his power to retain Jessica Tisch, walk back his promise to arrest Netanyahu (an empty promise he made on your platform when he needed votes), failed to stop the sale of Palestinian land at Jewish community centers, amplified Israeli atrocity propaganda, and given millions of dollars to organizations who use 'antisemitism' as a way to stifle criticism of Zionism. But the most egregious betrayals were probably his endorsements of Brad Lander and Hakeem Jeffries. Lander is a self-declared Zionist who opposes BDS and invested in Elbit Systems during the genocide. Mamdani knew this and endorsed him anyway. That is the connection critics are drawing between his political choices and the slaughter in Gaza. Indirect? Yes. Imaginary? No. Taken individually, these are serious concessions to Zionism. Taken together, they suggest his grassroots activist persona was a performative grift. Another politician who campaigns on moral courage only to capitulate once in power. Another Obama. Another AOC. These protests are a line in the sand. We see the direction he's heading, we reject it, and we intend to hold him accountable. We may be harsh at times but it is actually due to your constant gaslighting. Your constant refusal to engage with legitimate criticism and failure to acknowledge these problems only intensify the backlash. If you spent half as much energy guiding Mamdani through constructive feedback and holding him accountable, as you do running cover for him, the response might look very different. But what can we expect from someone who took three years to seriously address the Hannibal Directive? Perhaps in another three years you'll acknowledge these issue with Mamdani too. First, though, you still owe your audience a reckoning over your amplification of the mass-rape hoax. You know, the bullshit atrocity propaganda that made the genocide possible. Hurry up, Mehdi. We need you to pick up the pace.