Mamdani’s tone-deaf Oct. 7 post attacks Israel
Mayor Mamdani on Wednesday used the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 slaughter of Israelis to instead attack the Jewish state of "war crimes" in an "ongoing…
There are days when the right thing to do is just keep your mouth shut. Wednesday was one of them. Instead, the mayor now known for this post used the third anniversary of the Oct.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani sparked outrage Wednesday by using the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 slaughter of Israelis to instead attack the Jewish state of “war crimes” in an “ongoing genocide.”
Hizzoner dedicated less than a quarter of his statement to the “unthinkable loss” suffered when “Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others” — with the vast majority instead devoted to his ongoing attacks on Israel.
“The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza,” he said, decrying the Palestinians killed in response to the Hamas attack being marked Wednesday.
“That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing.
“Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment,” said Mamdani.
The biased statement by the mayor — already widely criticized for making Jewish New Yorkers feel unsafe with his ongoing attacks on Israel — was quickly met with horror.
“What he is trying to do is hijack the only day we have for the victims and survivors. He’s trying to hijack the day to talk about attacking Israel,” Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon told The Post:
“It’s like on 9/11 you talked about victims and al-Qaeda terrorists. It’s basically taking the only day we have for victims and trying to attack Israel with propaganda. He’s dangerous and sophisticated. He will go to both ceremonies and try to say he feels for both losses of life.”
Mesneshe Shapiro, a former adviser to Mamdani’s predecessor, former Mayor Eric Adams, called the statement “incitement and electronic violence against New York’s Jews.”
“He doesn’t get to hide behind Hamas’ made-up stats to justify his open Jew-hatred.”
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There are days when the right thing to do is just keep your mouth shut. Wednesday was one of them. Instead, the mayor now known for this post used the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre to lecture the Jewish state about "war crimes" and "ongoing genocide." On a day for remembering over a thousand murdered Israelis, he chose to attack the victim. That's not commentary. That's a tic.
Think about what actually happened on Oct. 7. Hamas broke through a border fence and went house to house. They shot people at a music festival. They took grandmothers hostage. They brutalized women and killed babies, and they did it on purpose. Israel responded the way any country would. But three years later, we're supposed to believe the moral crime is Israel's self-defense, not the barbaric attack that started everything. The order of events is not complicated. It matters. It explains why Israel has no choice but to root out the terrorists who promised to do it again.
Mamdani's post isn't just tone-deaf. It's a small sign of a larger sickness on the left, where "context" always means explaining the killers first. The people who deny the details of Oct. 7 are the same ones calling Israel genocide while Hamas still holds hostages. They never meet a Jewish victim they can't blame. Maybe that's the policy of the mayor's political brand. For the rest of us, we'll keep our eyes on the truth: October 7 was the crime, and Israel has every right to make sure it never happens again.
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