Patinkin, the entertainer best known as Inigo Montoya in the late Rob Reiner’s hit The Princess Bride, described the first Trump administration as a “cancer that affects the world globally.” In July, he blamed the Gaza war on Jews, amplifying Hamas’s narrative while ignoring the hostage crisis. Critics denounced the video as disingenuous, pointing to the historical significance of Hanukkah — which commemorates the rededication of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem after Jewish fighters reclaimed it from foreign occupiers, a landmark assertion of Jewish independence in the land of Israel centuries before the rise of Islam or the Roman renaming of the region as “Palestine.” Last month, Mosab Hassan Yousef — the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, who broke with the terror group — described Mamdani as a “trojan horse” for a dangerous Red-Green alliance of communists and Islamists, warning that, if unchecked, his radical agenda would “burn the castle down” and erase the very freedoms that make New York City what it is.
Author: Joshua Klein
Published at: 2025-12-21 22:02:56
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