piquant nefesh
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"Never Again means everyone," I only happen to yell at Jews
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
"Never Again means everyone," I only happen to yell at Jews
The populism of it all is so reminiscent and so off putting and even worse it's from voices I'd previously considered sober.
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The populism of it all is so reminiscent and so off putting and even worse it's from voices I'd previously considered sober.
Exactly!
We have to engage with the ~30% who voted for Mamdani (esp bc it's probs a big bloc: younger, more progressive, more secular) but Mamdani got ~30% of Jews, has brutal favorability (iirc 75% unfavorable per QU), & is facing massive pushback from progressive Jewish leaders who met with him.
We have to engage with the ~30% who voted for Mamdani (esp bc it's probs a big bloc: younger, more progressive, more secular) but Mamdani got ~30% of Jews, has brutal favorability (iirc 75% unfavorable per QU), & is facing massive pushback from progressive Jewish leaders who met with him.
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Exactly!
We have to engage with the ~30% who voted for Mamdani (esp bc it's probs a big bloc: younger, more progressive, more secular) but Mamdani got ~30% of Jews, has brutal favorability (iirc 75% unfavorable per QU), & is facing massive pushback from progressive Jewish leaders who met with him.
We have to engage with the ~30% who voted for Mamdani (esp bc it's probs a big bloc: younger, more progressive, more secular) but Mamdani got ~30% of Jews, has brutal favorability (iirc 75% unfavorable per QU), & is facing massive pushback from progressive Jewish leaders who met with him.
My concern is that Mamdani hasn't addressed his past at all & we're supposed to trust a very short track record starting ~this year.
He literally did a rally with WOL & Samidoun in 2021. His 2023 comments about the IDF & NYPD were blatant antizionist antisemitism. He praised the Holy Land five!
He literally did a rally with WOL & Samidoun in 2021. His 2023 comments about the IDF & NYPD were blatant antizionist antisemitism. He praised the Holy Land five!
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
My concern is that Mamdani hasn't addressed his past at all & we're supposed to trust a very short track record starting ~this year.
He literally did a rally with WOL & Samidoun in 2021. His 2023 comments about the IDF & NYPD were blatant antizionist antisemitism. He praised the Holy Land five!
He literally did a rally with WOL & Samidoun in 2021. His 2023 comments about the IDF & NYPD were blatant antizionist antisemitism. He praised the Holy Land five!
So, I’m not exactly a fan of Zohran but he's (early going!) assembling a transition team filled with serious, highly competent progressives &, notably, not many DSA/lefty ideologues.
If he concentrates on being a sewer socialist, then I think he'll succeed. If he focuses on culture wars, he won't.
If he concentrates on being a sewer socialist, then I think he'll succeed. If he focuses on culture wars, he won't.
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
So, I’m not exactly a fan of Zohran but he's (early going!) assembling a transition team filled with serious, highly competent progressives &, notably, not many DSA/lefty ideologues.
If he concentrates on being a sewer socialist, then I think he'll succeed. If he focuses on culture wars, he won't.
If he concentrates on being a sewer socialist, then I think he'll succeed. If he focuses on culture wars, he won't.
Is Mamdani still an *_anti_*-zionist? Genuine Q.
I think it’s fair to say he’s evolved towards non-Zionism or, really, post-Zionism. He supports Israel’s right to exist (as a state w = rights for all its citizens, he’s no longer anti-normalization, etc.)
He’s within the right to exist redline.
I think it’s fair to say he’s evolved towards non-Zionism or, really, post-Zionism. He supports Israel’s right to exist (as a state w = rights for all its citizens, he’s no longer anti-normalization, etc.)
He’s within the right to exist redline.
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Is Mamdani still an *_anti_*-zionist? Genuine Q.
I think it’s fair to say he’s evolved towards non-Zionism or, really, post-Zionism. He supports Israel’s right to exist (as a state w = rights for all its citizens, he’s no longer anti-normalization, etc.)
He’s within the right to exist redline.
I think it’s fair to say he’s evolved towards non-Zionism or, really, post-Zionism. He supports Israel’s right to exist (as a state w = rights for all its citizens, he’s no longer anti-normalization, etc.)
He’s within the right to exist redline.