Clapping for genocide

If you were part of the clapping audience of a recent broadcast of “The View,” featuring Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, you might try to defend your applause, over his accusation that Israel is committing a genocide, by saying that you were simply acknowledging the statement as being true.

If, however, you know the real facts about what’s taking place in Israel and how the war has been surgically fought, against the bloodthirsty terrorists, who began everything two years ago, you might say that the clapping was a show of support for the desire to pin a phony genocide claim on the Jewish state.

Nonetheless, it must be said that meeting the word, “genocide,” by a round of applause is about as callous and wanton as it gets. Of course, no one is surprised by the reaction of people who sought to be the audience of a nonsensical talk show, hosted by uninformed, narcissistic women who have an anti-Israel agenda.

Nor is anyone shocked to, yet again, hear the mayoral candidate express vilification for Israel.  Those are two constants which will not change.  What should change, though, is the opinion held by any Jewish person who intends to vote for Mamdani in the New York race. Because the socialist is making no secret of how he feels, even before elected.

In his unashamed candor, Mamdani told the audience, “What we see is a war crime being answered with war crimes, and what we see is every single hour, the Israeli military killing a Palestinian child for close to two years. I can’t stop that as the mayor of this city. I can make clear my own values, my own commitments.”

Given Mamdani’s personal views about Israel’s legitimacy to even exist, it’s very disingenuous, on his part, to refer to October 7th as a war crime. That is because his alignment with the Palestinian position – one which completely justifies the massacre, contradicts his claim of Hamas’s act as being one which rises to the level of a war crime. 

Consequently, in his attempt to sound reasonable, and not completely warped in his thinking, Mamdani offers the bone of false morality. It’s not difficult to arrive at such a conclusion, because the second half of his sentence is a disclaimer of Israel’s right of defense as it seeks to excise the scourge of cancerous tumors in its midst.

Essentially, Mamdani is saying that it was wrong to attack us, but equally wrong for us to try to do something about it.  

Naturally, he plays the “dying Palestinian children” card – one which works like a charm every time! The ploy is to get listeners to feel sickened as they consider the death of innocent children as an indefensible concept – no matter how pro-Israel you are.

The pity is that he never addresses the hateful and demonic ideology that takes these innocent children from the comfort of their families, as they are forcibly recruited into military training camps at tender ages, told that the highest possible achievement would be to die as a martyr for their people. Why does that not tug at the heart strings? 

And why is the loss of Jewish children, who were brutally slaughtered in Israel, also minimized or, in this case, not even mentioned? These are the unspoken words over which potential New York Jewish voters should be deeply concerned. Because they attest to a very specific agenda whose consequences are far-reaching, pointing to dark and ominous danger.

While the words “my values and commitments,” have an honorable ring to them, in the case of Mamdani, one should dig as deep as possible to find out what those entail. Because waiting to find out could be a costly and painful mistake for which the city will pay dearly.  

As co-host Sara Haines pushed back against Mamdani, reminding him that many do not support his views, she being one of them, his glib response was that it’s okay not to agree with him. He still intends to fight for every New Yorker, “making sure that they can afford to live in the city and feel safe.”

But how will Jews be able to feel safe in a city run by a mayor who is not only sympathetic to Palestinian protestors but champions their right to intimidate and threaten the Jewish community, something they’ve gotten away with even under a pro-Israel mayor such as Eric Adams.

Imagine how much more toxic the environment will be if a pro-Palestinian defender is in control of a largely Jewish-populated city such as New York? Mamdani has already said that, as mayor, if Israel’s prime minister were to set foot in New York, on his watch, he would be arrested.  

Does anyone see that such sentiments extend to individuals who share the same ethnicity? If that’s not true, why have we witnessed innocent Jewish students being terrorized on their campuses? 

Has anyone ever made a link between them and their connections to the Jewish state? Absolutely not! They are being persecuted for one thing only, and that is the crime of being from the same tribe as the people of Israel. Personal involvement into the state has nothing to do with anything.

And that is the problem with electing an anti-Israel mayor who shares the hateful ideology of terrorists, who spent 20 years planning the worst invasion which has ever taken place on Jewish soil.  Winning the candidacy would afford him the unprecedented opportunity of furthering that same hatred in a city which houses more Jews than any other place in the world, except for Israel.

Whether or not he would directly target Jews is not the issue, because the super-charged atmosphere which would further embolden Jew-haters would be felt in a way that would dramatically change the sense that the Big Apple still remains the secure home of many Jews.  

Of course, there will be major shifts in policy, rhetoric and deference shown to supporters of Mamdani’s “values and commitments?” If you disagree, I have a bridge I’d like to sell you.

Bottom line - how do we know Mamdani would be an unmitigated disaster for New York? Because if he had even the least bit of integrity, decency and humanity, he would have put an end to the sound of applause the moment it was heard, following the phony charge of genocide – a word which should never receive applause!