Israel-bashing Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is catching flak again — for once using “Zionist” as the punchline to an insulting joke, critics claim.
Jewish New Yorkers were outraged over the recently resurfaced video of the mayoral race frontrunner speaking before the Democratic Socialists of America in 2023.
“If you don’t clap for El-Yateem,” Mamdani said, “You’re a Zionist!”
He was referring to Lutheran pastor and Palestinian community organizer Khader El-Yateem, who ran unsuccessfully for a Brooklyn City Council seat in 2017.
Mamdani, the 33-year-old Queens assemblyman, then said, “It’s a joke, you don’t have to clap.”
But Israel supporters weren’t laughing.
“The turning of ‘Zionist’ into a slur in mainstream western liberal spaces is the most significant antisemitic development of the 21st century,” said podcaster Blake Flayton, who posted the video on X.
“This man is about to be mayor of New York,” said Flayton, host of “We Should All Be Zionists,” of the Democratic nominee.
“I don’t think people yet understand how much of a code red situation this is. The severity of the moment,” he added.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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