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Mamdani’s Israel dodge is nothing but bad faith and hypocrisy
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It’s a shame, really: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is such a strong supporter of pluralism that he has to single out the state of Israel for unique opprobrium.
Asked by Jonathan Karl of ABC News whether he supports Israel’s status as a Jewish state, Mamdani said he doesn’t — he’d only support Israel “as a state with equal rights.”
“I believe that any state that privileges one religion over another is one that I can’t tell you I support,” he continued, “whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else.”
Mamdani makes it sound as though Israel is a theocracy, and so he has to withhold his support until such time as it meets his exacting standards for state neutrality in religious matters and freedom of conscience.
That’s true, sadly, of Saudi Arabia.
When is the last time, though, that you heard Mamdani or his movement, the Democratic Socialists of America, inveighing with great moral passion against Saudi Arabia?
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