Politicians who endorse NYC candidate Zohran Mamdani should earn your complete contempt
Please take note of all the politicians jumping aboard the Zohran Mamdani train — because they're telling you that they're just hunky-dory with an anti-Israel zealot who routinely flirts (at least) with blatant antisemitism.
This holds particularly for Brad Lander and Michael Blake, the mayoral rivals cross-endorsing him: They've thereby disqualified themselves from even a No. 5 ranking by any decent New Yorker.
And of course it applies to Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose Mamdani endorsement dropped Tuesday, as well and Bernie's protégé, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
So much for AOC's efforts to distance herself from Squad-mates like venomous Jew-hating Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib — or ex-Squad-boy Jamaal Bowman, for that matter. (Jamaal's endorsed Zohran, too, natch.)
As well as to the various local pols who've listed Zohran as any one of their top choices among the nine or so who qualified for at least one debate: Remember to vote against Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Rep. Nydia Velásquez, state Sen. John Liu and state Attorney General Tish James if you ever get another chance.
Look: On top of having basically never achieved anything in life, Mamdani's been an anti-Israel activist since college; he not only refuses to support Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, he's declined to sign on to Assembly resolutions condemning the Holocaust.
He's done a friendly interview with sick online influencer Hasan Piker and pretends 'globalize the Intifada' and 'from the river to the sea' merely express a desire for Palestinian rights, when the slogans are all about 1) violence against Jews anywhere and everywhere and 2) the destruction of Israel.
He's a cop-defunder, too.
All he's got going for him is charm and a raging socialist platform that would destroy the city if he got the chance to implement it.
Sadly, that's enough to have him polling No. 2 (albeit in the weakest Democratic field ever) — and that momentum, plainly, is enough for hacks like Lander and Blake to cut cross-endorsement deals with the devil.
Shame on them all.
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