New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani must think Jews are stupid.
How else to explain his classic ruse of buttering us up with schmaltz before shooting us with a genocidal spear?
“This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers,” he began earnestly in today’s address. “It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.”
So far so good. But after this obligatory throat clearing, he zeroed in on his real message:
“The suffering did not begin nor end that day,” he added, as if providing helpful clarification. “It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children.”
Now he was on a roll.
“Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. 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. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.”
Even on this singular day to honor the victims of Oct. 7, the mayor kept the poison coming:
“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.
“To honor the dead,” he concluded, “we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.”
Indeed, we must honor the dead with dignity.
Of course, if Mamdani really wanted to honor the dead on Oct. 7, he could simply have said:
“This day marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7, when Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others.
“Today is their day. It is reserved for the victims of Oct. 7. As much as I’ve railed against Israel’s devastating military actions and the pain that caused, today is not the time to rehash that.
“Oct. 7 is for the victims of Oct. 7. I want the world to know that I grieve their unthinkable loss.
“May their memories be for a blessing.”
If Mamdani truly meant what he said about Oct. 7, he would have stuck to the schmaltz.
