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Cynthia Lazar's avatar

The irony and hypocrisy of that Jew hater wishing us a peaceful Tisha B’av is entirely lost upon him. Mamdani recognizes the holiday where we mourn our expulsion from our homeland and then turns around and calls us colonizers.

Alison Bull's avatar

It’s not lost on him. Everything he does is deliberate.

Liv Bare's avatar

Yes, an insult to injury. He and his ilk provide an insurmountable challenge to practicing compassion. Literally nauseating.

Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

And some Jews will say, See? He’s not anti Semitic. Actions speak louder than words.

Bruce Jacobson's avatar

Right on point Eve. It’s his shameless gaslighting that the progressives either don’t care about or don’t see. And once you see it, it can’t be unseen. His shit-grinning smile, the suit, the calm outer demeanor masks (for some) the calculated evil beneath the surface. Your warnings need to be heeded.

Peter Steinhauser's avatar

People need to understand that Mandami is a Muslim cleric posing as the Mayor of New York. He uses socialist language to mask a radical Islamist agenda. Big trouble.

Bless you Eve and stay strong.

Morris Glassman's avatar

Bravo. I just finished a book about Trotsky. He was another charismatic man, responsible for the death of many who followed him as one would follow a god. The DSA, Mamdani, many in the DSA, LGBT... groups, "liberal, "progressive" movements are so similar. Maybe they truly believe themselves as doing what is "right and honorable" but they are evil because the cure is never hate, no matter how you try to disguise it. Never be willing to overlook or excuse hate. Your finger may be pointing to the other, but the other 4 are pointing to you.

David Collins's avatar

A very minor quibble, but: one finger points at those you accuse, but three are pointing back at you and the the thumb points skyward to remind you to repent of the hate in your heart.

Morris Glassman's avatar

thanks, you are definitely correct. Appreciated.

Tillman Eddy's avatar

I reiterate my earlier comment: I would happily attend Mamdani’s funeral! It is inconceivable to me that any Jewish person would even remotely consider voting for him!

Alison Bull's avatar

Other DSA members won primaries in NYC over democrats who have been in office for years. When I mention this to my Dem friends, they never heard of it. Read it here in The Free Press:

https://www.thefp.com/p/new-york-new-squad-primary-winners

If these people win, Mamdani may turn out to be the least of our troubles, which is terrifying. And chances are they will because the “blue no matter who” is strong in NYC. And after having to listen to ten years of people melting down over Trump, I’m not hearing a peep out of lifelong Democrats to expel these people from the party.

Eve Barlow's avatar

Yep I’ve been talking about this since 2020

Bless America's avatar

Superb. Not a word needs to be added.

Charles St-Louis's avatar

💯. To defend against the subversion, we need to respond to the red/green alliance with our own kind of subversion. But first we need to identify and understand its mechanisms. Eve Barlow’s work is a good place to start this process. Priceless if you ask me.

Terry Quist's avatar

Eve, your phrase "cosplay revolutionaries" echoed my own FB post yesterday as cover comment to a Free Press article by a former DSA leader. I think you will appreciate:

"Many of my more credulous left-leaning FB friends have been reposting pap designed for useful idiots (Lenin's phrase) about how 'socialism' as represented by Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) only means butterfly and unicorn things like 'fairness' and 'helping people.' Let me disabuse you. The butterfly and unicorn positions characterize the position of normie social democrats, not DSA. Social democracy (as practiced in Scandinavia and other European states) doesn't reject free enterprise; it simply uses the prosperity generated by free enterprise to distribute wealth to people in need. DSA leadership, on the contrary, is revolutionary Communist. That means they don't care about prosperity or democracy. They know what you want, and they will give it to you good and hard when they gain power. BTW, DSA spits on your social democracy. This is your moment, Democrats; if you believe in social democracy, you need to fight to save your party from the Jew-hating cosplay revolutionaries. If not, well, 'Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad...' If you hit a pay wall, DM me and I will help you out.'"

Geoffrey Katz's avatar

Thanks for this post Eve. Today during Tisha bAv mincha services at our congregation the Cantor read a list of destructive events that traditionally took place on the 9th of Av. I hope that Mamdani's video will not be on any future list. More to the point, I look back at for example Farrakhan's blatant antisemitism and the mainstream Jewish organizations not acting to confront that. I remember thinking at the time that this will come back to us...

Ruth Friedman's avatar

Knowing, facing and fighting this now obviously existential threat, highlights the bravery of your continuing to periodically reach out to those who cut you off who’ve (consciously or unconsciously) betrayed you (and us), as you did with Let’s Talk. Leaving the door open a crack that way, refusing to dehumanize others, is emotionally brave and a powerful way to fight evil. So, as you say, is telling our stories

Eve Barlow's avatar

I don’t know if it’s brave or if it’s just born of a need to stay human.

Ruth Friedman's avatar

If embracing vulnerability doesn’t feel brave, perhaps you’ve moved on to wise :)

Ian Mark Sirota's avatar

And the number of Jews supporting him (and others like him) is just appalling. And disheartening. So damned disheartening.

Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Perfectly said. I pray people will wake up soon.