https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/nyregion/mamdani-police-apology-floyd.html
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, said on Thursday that he intended to apologize for comments he made in 2020 calling the New York Police Department “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.”
He said that the remarks, which he wrote in June 2020 in a social media post in support of the defund the police movement, were made after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis a month earlier.
The comments were made “at the height of frustration,” he said in an interview with The New York Times, and were not reflective of his current campaign or “my view of public safety and the fact that police will be critical partners in delivering public safety.”
But stated the opposite. His words (maybe slightly paraphrasing) - "Israel has a right to exist as a state with equal rights". That's not denying it. That's defining its "right to exist" within the same terms they themselves use to describe it. The correct, truthful answer is "states don't have a right to exist". We don't have time for clever riddles that play both sides.
I don't care about any words anymore I care about policies. Look at Turkey shouting big words and then supplying with Israel 30% the oil they use.
If Zohran does BDS I don't care what lip service he puts on.