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Zohran Mamdani’s Moral Obscenity
NY Times ^ | 9 Oct 2026 | Bret Stephens

Posted on 10/09/2026 8:12:43 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s mayor, set off a firestorm of criticism Wednesday morning with a social media post ostensibly intended to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Israelis. It devoted a brief paragraph to condemning Hamas and commiserating with its victims. The rest was a much longer denunciation of Israel’s “ongoing genocide in Gaza,” a “world in which occupation and apartheid continue” and a situation in which “our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.”

In response, Ammiel Hirsch, the president of the New York Board of Rabbis, said the statement was “so offensive to so many Jews that it is hard to describe how offensive it is.” In fact, it’s a moral obscenity. Let me count the ways.

It is obscene in the same way it would have been obscene if the mayor had commemorated the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 last month with a perfunctory nod to the victims of the day, followed by a much longer denunciation of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. What happened on both Sept. 11 and Oct. 7 was undiluted evil, each an unprovoked visit of deliberate and maximalist violence on people who had done nothing to invite that violence other than being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Hamas; Hezbollah; Iran; Israel; Lebanon; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror; Yemen
KEYWORDS: alohasnackbarboy; demagogicparty; hamas; headchopper; hezbollah; iran; irgc; israel; lebanon; newyork; newyorkcity; ugandan; waronterror; yemen; zohrankwamemamdani; zohranmamdani

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1 posted on 10/09/2026 8:12:43 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Damannie is a pig.


2 posted on 10/09/2026 8:15:16 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since "protesters" are now being paid, protests should be required to have at least 5000 idiots.)
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To: Rummyfan

Damannie is a pig.


3 posted on 10/09/2026 8:15:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since "protesters" are now being paid, protests should be required to have at least 5000 idiots.)
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To: Rummyfan
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You almost have to admire Mamdani. Dude just walks around NYC smiling and shitting on everything because the place is so far gone that he’s untouchable, and he knows it.

Like John Gotti wearing a keffiyeh.

4 posted on 10/09/2026 8:17:19 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.)
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To: Rummyfan

God Bless ICE!
Let’s kick the bozo African Mandammi out instead. ICE is preventing that African slob from destroying America.

Have an ice day!


5 posted on 10/09/2026 8:28:36 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since "protesters" are now being paid, protests should be required to have at least 5000 idiots.)
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To: Rummyfan

Got genocide and apartheid in the same sentence. How clever.


6 posted on 10/09/2026 8:28:46 PM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Whoring Zohran, the obscene Ugandan.


7 posted on 10/09/2026 8:29:17 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Whoring Zohran, the obscene Ugandan.


8 posted on 10/09/2026 8:29:18 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Rummyfan

Egging impressionable and mentally unstable followers on is very dangerous. Jewish people are now targets and as soon as Dem/Socialist/Islamist extremists take political power they may be in mortal danger. There are very few Fettermans to stand up for them and lots of trendy, fashionable highly educated anti-semites to be on the other side.


9 posted on 10/09/2026 9:15:50 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: bray
Got genocide and apartheid in the same sentence. How clever.

Yes, his mom always told him he was clever. /S (spit)

10 posted on 10/09/2026 9:19:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Rummyfan

I guess they shouldn’t have voted for him, huh?


11 posted on 10/09/2026 9:55:22 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: frank ballenger

And a grinning jackass.

He-haww!


12 posted on 10/09/2026 9:57:27 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: Flaming Conservative

They will probably vote for him again. Sometimes party affiliation is more important than what people say in speeches.


13 posted on 10/09/2026 11:25:01 PM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Misspelled đụ má mày…


14 posted on 10/09/2026 11:41:59 PM PDT by umbagi (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. [Twain])
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Misspelled đụ má mày…


15 posted on 10/09/2026 11:42:01 PM PDT by umbagi (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. [Twain])
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Misspelled đụ má mày…


16 posted on 10/09/2026 11:42:06 PM PDT by umbagi (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. [Twain])
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To: umbagi

FR going crazy tonight.


17 posted on 10/09/2026 11:43:13 PM PDT by umbagi (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. [Twain])
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To: Rummyfan

Bkmk


18 posted on 10/10/2026 3:10:14 AM PDT by sauropod ("They eventually succomb to the dollar" - President Donald J. Trump Ne supra crepidam)
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