Zohran Mamdani is a Zionist

Which makes the racist meltdowns about his victory even more psychotic

“History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain

American politics is circular, dizzying even. Every few years it’s weapons of mass destruction this a bright new political candidate that. The cast members and locations themselves are not the main focus, sometimes it’s Iraq then it’s Iran….sometimes it’s Obama, AOC, then it’s Zohran Mamdani. No matter the projection onto the cave wall, we’ve seen this one before. They all serve the same capitalist imperial system. To everyone on the cast, they just want to put on a good show and get called back next season. It’s only the people in the countries the US destroys who bear the brunt of the drama.

The Internet is abuzz again, a brand new cast member just dropped. It’s Zohran Mamdani the likely winner of the mayoral election in New York City. A young up and coming outspoken politician, who captivates people with fiery speeches defeated the establishment candidate Andrew Cuomo and moves on to face Andrew Cuomo again and incumbent criminal Eric Adams in the general election.

Objectively Zohran has run a successful intergenerational, interracial, interfaith ground campaign that has lit up New York municipal politics in a way I haven’t seen in years, not since the rise of AOC. Mamdani, a young, cool “outsider" like Obama and AOC utilized social media against an out-of-touch older corrupt disgraced insider. The script is familiar, it’s another copy-paste. There must be a writers’ strike in NYC. This show of theater gives the US settler hope in the hollow rickety electoral system, so they never fully devote their potential revolutionary energy to building alternatives, direct action, and mutual aid. It gives the settler a glimmer of optimism to endure the hellscape because the racist colonial project still has a few gallons before E.

During AOC’s rise, she went as far as to say we need to abolish ICE, a call she’s dusted off after years of inactivity while her party held the levers of power. While families were ripped apart, children were kept in cages, and Biden deported 4.44 million individuals in 2021-22 alone. Then she told us to vote for him. She said the quiet part out loud and once Mamdani flagellated himself at the alter of AIPAC, AOC’s endorsement flowed shortly after. AOC said, “the US, our responsibility, is to the stability and security of the region. That means being able to support Israel in its defensive capacities."

Mamdani took a slightly harsher rhetorical tone saying he would arrest Netanyahu, and was repeatedly interrogated about whether or not he would visit the occupation of Palestine and he stood firm that he would not. That said, a zionist is someone who believes in the continuation of the brutal settler colony known as Israel. Mamdani when pressed by sycophantic sellout Stephen Colbert, said “I believe Israel has a right to exist and a responsibility to uphold international law.” This is the guy zionists are freaking out about and threatening white flight over.

Now comes the part where people “explain how politics works” to me. They say he “had to say that to get elected.” I know dummy that’s the problem. He’s still working to appease zionists. Is lying to your constituency because you know it’s what they want to hear, even if it’s not what you truly believe, the hallmark of a great leader?

People don’t say about President Thomas Sankara, man he knew how to pander! Was President Fidel Castro’s appeal that he would bend over backward for whoever was in front of him? He wore military fatigues to the UN because he wasn’t someone who let outside pressure impact his feelings on the inside, his speeches, or his actions.

Also, it’s not even true. Nation states don’t have a right to exist, that’s why we don’t hear a lot about Rhodesia. States do not have the right to exist but the Palestinian people do. An anti-zionist would have said explicitly, “states do not have a right to exist, people have the right to exist.”

Mamdani has popular policy proposals which include free buses, a rent freeze, and municipally owned grocery stores. If he’s able to deliver these they would certainly benefit the living conditions of the people of New York. That said, these petty bourgeoisie “victories” come at the expense of indigenous people on Turtle Island, people in the Congo, Sudan, Palestine and Latin America. They serve to benefit a group of people for whom the standard of living is already among the highest in the world. I don’t want to get paid more so I can watch the live-streamed genocides on a slightly better phone, I’d like to stop the genocides.

This situation reminds me of the weapons manufacturing workers who were negotiating better pay. They’re like we want to make a living wage killing people.

At the First Jewish Labor Congress in 1919, a national gathering in New York of representatives from Jewish-led unions claiming to represent five hundred thousand workers — delegates debated Zionism and passed a measure that explicitly rejected the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine. The resolution called for the establishment of “a free, independent republic in which no nationality, whether a minority or majority people, shall have any special rights.” But ultimately, the Jewish labor movement was used as a tool to colonize Palestine, at the expense of the indigenous Palestinian people.

So if the question is do I want a higher wage, at the expense of indigenous suffering the answer is no. I want us to stop pretending the US isn’t also a failed settler colony that needs to be fully dismantled and returned to native control, just like Israel.