I don’t glaze Mamdani for his speech because Israels actions are so appalling that even figures on the right, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, have spoken out against them and have been critical. Mamdani merely does so more eloquently. He did not produce anti-Israel sentiment; he is reacting to it. But he is not doing so in a way that is materially beneficial. He is actually undermining anti-Israel and anti-Zionist movements through his actions—or lack thereof. What people do not seem to realize, or fully grasp, is that Mamdani actively rode the energetic wave of anti-genocide protests to propel himself toward the mayoral seat in New York. The most energetic volunteers for his campaign—the people who knocked on tens of thousands of doors—came to him because of the Gaza protests he attended and spoke at. Mamdani attended these protests and used the language of “from the river to the sea.” These volunteers, angry and hopeless over the ongoing genocide, flocked to his campaign believing that he would represent their anger and actually do something. But as soon as Mamdani was elected, he did what countless others before him have done to the Palestinian cause: he abandoned them. Mamdani went from chanting “from the river to the sea” and giving Malcolm X-style speeches at protests to literally condemning the phrase. He condemned those very same protesters when they went to synagogues to protest the sale of stolen Palestinian land. He appointed the Jewish Zionist police chief who beat up student protesters who established anti-genocide encampments at their universities. He endorsed a Jewish Zionist congressman who bragged about being anti-BDS and invested city pension funds in Israeli weapons manufacturers during the genocide. Mamdani knew this and endorsed him anyway. And, of course, we all know that he condemned Susan Abulhawa, a Palestinian, because of the language she uses to condemn her Jewish Zionist Israeli oppressors. Now, after promising to arrest Netanyahu—which was clearly a false promise designed to tap into Palestinian energy and secure more headlines and votes—he has reneged and offered words instead. Mamdani did not recently discover that he could not arrest Netanyahu. He knew he would not be able to do so the moment he appointed a Jewish Zionist, Israel-first police commissioner who would be responsible for coordinating the arrest in the first place. It is baffling that people can run so much cover for him and make excuse after excuse, given that this man grifted off the bones of the slaughtered to attain power, only to throw them under the bus and use whatever leverage he does have to propel more Zionists into power. It is insanity. He is now doing photo shoots with Obama, AOC, Bernie and other liberal Zionists, amplifying the Zionist propaganda tactic to put the blame for the genocide on Netanyahus shoulders. This is NOT PROGRESS. It’s ‘hope and change’ and more of the same rebranded for 2026. And you’re cheering !