He proclaimed that the correct way for Israel to respond to the most brutal attack against the Jewish people since the Holocaust was through "ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid." Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America—which held a rally in New York on October 8 "in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to resist 75 years of occupation and apartheid" that featured an image of a swastika—and the son of Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani, who has argued against the existence of Israel. Several months later, Emhoff posted a link to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s (UNRWA) donation site after the Biden administration froze funding for the agency following allegations that UNRWA staffers had participated in the October 7 attack—allegations UNRWA itself later confirmed.
Author: Zach Kessel
Published at: 2025-05-05 21:45:27
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