Mamdani Hasn't Evolved on "Globalize the Intifada"

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani claimed that his views on the term "globalize the intifada" have changed since winning the Democratic Party nomination in an interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC:

In the meetings I've had since that moment, I've met with Jewish elected officials, with rabbis, with community leaders. And there was one rabbi who spoke to me about how that phrase, for her, brought back memories of bus bombings in Haifa, of restaurant attacks in Jerusalem. I knew from what she was sharing with me that she had a fear, as she said, that that could come home to New York City.

So, in having that conversation with her, I understood that the gap between the intent I've heard some New Yorker shared with the use of that language - of calling for the end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land - was disconnected from the impact it was having in that same conversation I was having with that rabbi.

And so I have said, after having that conversation, that this is language I would discourage. 

In reality, nothing has changed since July when he told New York business leaders in a closed-door session that he would not use the phrase but wouldn't discourage the ideas behind it.

What Mamdani is trying to do here is to claim that the term "globalize the intifada" is about the ending "Israeli occupation of Palestinian land" and that Jews are misunderstanding the intent of the language and to refrain from using it.

But the genie is out of the bottle and cannot be returned. The rabbi who told Mamdani about the bus bombings in Haifa and restaurant attacks in Jersualem can now tell him about the murder of six Jews by Palestinian gunmen at a bus stop in Jerusalem today. 

The gunmen who murdered those six Jews today surely want to globalize the intifada as much as the Hamas terrorists who killed Jews enjoying a music festival, the man who executed 2 Israeli embassy staff at the D.C. Capital Jewish Museum and the man who threw Molotov cocktails at Holocaust survivors in Boulder, Colorado. 

There is no gap between intent and effect. To globalize the intifada is about targeting Jews and Jewish institutions. I can add vandalizing a Jewish museum with red spray paint in Philadelphia, throwing red paint on a Jewish singer in Warsaw and red paint on Jews in Frankfurt in a vigil for the hostages. Mamdani should stop pretending otherwise.

And what exactly does Mamdani consider to be "Israeli occupation of Palestinian land". Does Mamdani wish for Palestine to be free from the river to the sea? If so, then how else would this come to pass without killing every last Jew in Israel?

And what of Jews in New York who see fit to cast a ballot for him? I can only say that either that particular group of Jews hates their fellow Jews so much that they would prefer we be murdered in the name of opening a few government-owned grocery stores or whatever passes for progress these days in order to assuage whatever white liberal guilt they happen to be feeling.