We warned you about NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. When Mamdani announced he was keeping her as NYPD Commissioner, we organized over 100 organizations to oppose her appointment and laid out her record of racist policing, mass surveillance, repression of protesters, and collaboration with Israeli occupation forces. These demands came from the streets, from the communities that have been subjected to this violence for years. The movement was right to oppose Tisch then, and we’re right to demand her resignation now. We are recirculating our statement and calling on every organization that has not yet signed to add its name. TISCH OUT. DISBAND THE SRG. ABOLISH ICE. wolpalestine.com/statements/…

“FROM NEW YORK TO GAZA, GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA!” Zohran Mamdani stands silently as protesters chant the very slogan he once defended against attempts to equate it with antisemitism. During his mayoral campaign, Mamdani initially contextualized the Arabic word intifada, pointing out that even the US Holocaust Memorial Museum had used it in Arabic to describe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis. I gave him credit for challenging the idea that Palestinian resistance could be reduced to the most violent interpretation of a single word. But after sustained backlash, Mamdani reversed course, publicly pledging to discourage the slogan’s use. He explained that decision by citing Jewish New Yorkers who understood it as invoking violence against Jews. Tonight’s chant brings that campaign controversy back into the open. For protesters who understand intifada as uprising against oppression, the dispute was never simply about vocabulary. It was about whose understanding of Palestinian resistance would be recognized in New York’s political discourse. Video via @WOLPalestine