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We don't know how many people were killed by Hamas and we don't know how many people were killed by the IDF due to the Hannibal directive. It's false and misleading to say Hamas killed 1100+ people.

Mamdani took the most accurate plausible number that most people agree on, acknowledged it with reverence, and then went on to read Israel for filth regarding its genocide, actively reaffirming that Oct 7th *does not* justify their actions, which is SIGNIFICANTLY better than 99% of politicians.

You forget. Israel knew of attack beforehand. Top officials got their families to safety. Netanyahu weakened the fence & delayed response to get Israeli agreement with genocide. Israel killed many Israelis with Hellfire missiles, dropping houses with tanks. Genocide has been the plan for 78 years.

There is no genocide. Only Hamas propaganda for weak minds and blind minions. Gaza’s population has INCREASED. Easy to fact check. You are horrible jihadi, hate mongering, ultra-racist, murder-cult mindless moron for spreading hate propaganda on this day.

Tragic, indeed. Except for the fact that Israel has used this tragedy to excuse their murderous war crimes against Palestinians. How many children have they slaughtered only to use 10/7 as justification?

While both sentiments can be true, we must respect the feelings of those who lost People on October 7. Oct 7 is a day to mourn what happened that day. We can talk about what’s going on in Palestine the next day

You're an inspiration. I love all my Jewish, and Muslim (and all others) brothers and sisters. Peace is the path forward. One race. One species. One planet. One fate. Give love. Get love back.

🇮🇱 HAS MURDERED MORE Palestinians than one day of processed foods in one country This is not a day of remembrance for the known enemies this was the day of resistance that Hamas said fuck you Satanyahu!!!! Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 and free the children of 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩

@mayor.nyc.gov I would advise you not to condemn 🇮🇱 for their planned attack against themselves and use it against the people of Palestine who were just trying to protect and defend themselves against their enemy I don’t have any sympathy for 🇮🇱 and they don’t deserve any

I couldn’t encapsulate better than add, a massacre on that level was in response to Apartheid subjugation & discrimination against Palestinians by Israeli Jews; and Israel’s efforts to deny statehood by undermining the Palestinian Authority’s ability to self-govern by funding Hamas’ reign of terror.

And that subjugation and discrimination was in response to Arab and Palestinian brutality against Jews since the 1920s... We can focus on trading blame, or on improving things for everyone moving forward. Only one of those helps people.

Explain the latter to Netanyahu. Nobody thinks genocide of Palestinians and usurpation of lands in Gaza, West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights (in Syria) and recent South Lebanon (Litani River to Beirut) are the panacea to that Middle East region. Jews have never been more despised by so many.

He intentionally separated them which was appropriate. No reason to conflate those issues when acknowledging on the anniversary of the terrorist act.

You have a point, but I haven't seen Carney issue a condemnation, or even a recognition, of the genocide. He's remarked on the humanitarian crisis which isn't enough

When US politicians commemorate the 2977 lives lost on 9/11 they don't conclude with a diatribe against the US for the million lives lost in our retaliatory war against Iraq. Always a double standard for Israel though.

we should also say violently meddling in foreign affairs is why 9/11 happened in the first place and while we're at it that we had ways to prevent it and did not. all of that is true about 10/7 and israel also

An expression of condolences is insincere when followed immediately by a wagging finger and history lesson of why you deserved the grief. Whether it's 9/11, or Oct 7, or your neighbor's funeral. Decency in civil life requires a measure of compassion for time and place.

Maybe (if your schedule allows) you should go to the 92 St. Y tonight. Only to listen. Maybe to meet those two guys at the end of it?

His statement about Oct. 7 is about as short as he could possibly get away with. At least he mentions Hamas. Followed by a whole big spiel about Israel's response. Weird how he doesn't go into the history of Hamas violence before Oct. 7th either if he really wanted to both-sides it.

@mayor.nyc.gov said “To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.” Please explain to us how your fighting to replace an egalitarian democracy (Israel) with a heterosexual Muslim male supremacist Sharia Law state (Palestine) does that.

currently I call it what it is, a series of concentration camps and refugee groupings. hopefully when the colonial blight of Zionism is eradicated like their predecessors the Nazis, Palestine can heal and become something better

I’m not from NY, but Mr. Mamdani is my mayor. This man defines integrity with every move he makes, every word he speaks and every action he completes. If only others in positions of power could act with such humility and grace, our world would be a better place. Thank you, Mayor Mamdani.

This is another horrible statement. But what do you expect from someone who supports Hamas and shares their goal of redeeming Islam by the annihilation of Jews and the destruction of the ONLY jewish state, Israel. I hope you burn in hell.

I have been very supportive of you @mayor.nyc.gov but this is a complete and total fuck up.This is why many Jews just don’t and won’t trust you. The first paragraph was all that was needed today. The rest could’ve been left for another day. It comes across as equivocation and damages DEMs everywhere

Any other day then when the deliberate slaughter of the most Jews since the holocaust occurred. But you don’t care about Jewish lives so it doesn’t matter to you. You don’t want people to equivocate about what’s happening in Gaza then don’t equivocate about what happened on 107.

You're accusing me of stuff when I only asked you questions, but go off, I guess. I invite you to look for any anti-Semitism in my timeline (or even my follows). You will not find it. I think -you- don't care about the Palestinian deaths instead, buddy.

The Ppl killed on 10/7 not just Jews. There Muslims, other faiths & many nationalities. He has frequently spoken about the deaths of Gazans. Today either honor the victims of 10/7 or STFU 🤦‍♀️

Your comment exemplifies why the I-P conflict continues: Each side prefers to nurse its own grievances rather than recognizing each other’s suffering and working to end it. But that’s just one Jew’s (my) opinion.

Wrong. All I said is that today is the day to recognize what happened on 10 7 without equivocation. That doesn’t diminish what’s happened in Gaza. There may be two sides to the I-P conflict, but there are not two sides to what happened on 10 7.

Mamdani didn’t equivocate. He said that the Oct 7 attacks were “horrific war crimes”. He didn’t say they were justified in any way. All he did was state the obvious truth that Palestinians are suffering horribly from Israel’s response. It’s never the wrong time to acknowledge people’s suffering.

BS, people like you have been salivating for any opportunity to go after him. If your criminal in chief Netanyahu hadn't used this as an opportunity to commit genocide, nobody would bring it up, but he did. So now the day will be overshadowed by his genocidal response. Blame Netanyahu.

Yarvin and Thiel are sociopaths that should be institutionalized. I believe Mandami to be a well intentioned and decent person so I expect more from him.

Jewish grief deserves to be acknowledged on its own terms. We should be able to speak about antisemitism and Jewish trauma without being expected to qualify it by bringing in---Compassion isn’t a competition.

Amazing you can’t acknowledge this was an attack on Jews, or that 10s of thousands of the Gazan deaths were of Palestinian combatants. You could be a true messenger of Peace, but your bias is disqualifying. Maybe you should get Uganda to stop buying Israeli drones first.

So it took me a day of ruminating on what I felt went wrong with @mayor.nyc.gov’s 10/7 statement. I think the intention was sincere, but the execution felt like using Jewish Community’s trauma to talk about Gaza. I took a stab at a rewrite I think more appropriately addresses both on 10/7.

Hamas knows it's a war, so why does Mamdani pretend that it isn't? A cynic would say that he's trying to make it easier for the aggressor to kill some more Jews.

Thank you for bringing the truth to light... the initial terrorist attack was horrific... but the ongoing systematic destruction and genocide of a country has been worse... If we remain silent about the ongoing genocide, we ourselves are complicit...

That is a bizarre and misguided world view. Looking at any event in history without acknowledging what came before and what followed is a flawed way of doing things

His entire statement is valid and necessary. Israel murdering CHILDREN (SOME OF WHOM WERE NOT EVEN BORN WHEN THE ATTACK HAPPENED!!), in the name of REVENGE is repulsive. More repulsive: People telling a man of good moral conscience to be quiet about the murder of CHILDREN.

What is so vile about this creature is that this post about 10/7 so insincere . He is like the creature that intentionally insults someone &then says “sorry if I hurt your feelings”. Hope this piece of shit gets blowback he deserves. He is as vile as Trump. Putz!

And THIS is exactly what is wrong. You CANNOT talk about 10/7 without acknowledging Gaza. Because the conflict didn’t start on 10/7, it started way beforehand. This is not a statement of antisemitism.

Literally the RVO in DARVO. No, we don’t need to talk about whatever grievances, real or imaginary, made INTERHAMWE, Ottomans, Nazi Germany or Hamas commit their atrocities.

You would do well to remember the community harmed determines the harm. If the Jewish community says the statement is antisemitism, it IS. Full stop. Strongly recommend you listen to the comments you're sure to get & alter your perspective.

It's not the Jewish community, it's the Israeli community. The entire point of all of this is to conflate the two so that they can continue a genocide under the cover of calling all criticisms of the Israeli government antisemitism. It's really not that hard to grasp.

what really happened: 1. israel established 2. arabs voluntarily leave israel 3. arabs invade israel 4. israel kicks ass 5. israel denies enemy arabs re-entry 6. arabs refuse to assimilate other arabs 7. “refugee crisis” 8. more arab invasions 9. israel kicks more ass 10. 50 years of terror 10/7

Indeed. It started in 1920, with an Arab pogrom launched by a Muslim fascist who later became a personal friend of Hitler: bsky.app/profile/anti...

Anti-Sabotage Operations Group@antisabotage.bsky.social

Palestinian Arabs started their forever war against Palestinian Jews in 1920, when the founder of their movement, a personal friend of Hitler named Amin al Hussaini, gave an an incendiary speech from the balcony of the Arab Club that incited a pogrom against his indigenous Jewish neighbors:

It was all peaches and fluff. Here we can see trusted local leadership discussing with a delegation of painters and animal rights activists how to improve conditions and better welcome the refugees. Also hummus recipes.

exactly and I still struggle to understand people that refuse to see this reality. The entirity of HAMAS and their attack on 10/7 was born out of the thin air of their beastiality because Palestinians are monsters that can't abide by the rules that they are prisoners without rights.

Right. When 9/11 happened was the next decade filled with “all the reasons why Americans deserved it”? This is why you’re fundamentally wrong.

Everyth8ng Iran believes is about antsemitism. This deep seated vel8ef has been there for a millennia. It did began on Oct 8 or 9 after Hamas lit the fuse on Oct 7th. IT IS LITERALLY TAUGHT & EMBEDDED IN THE DNA OF IRAN ISLAMISTS & THE TERRORIST GROUPS RUN AMOK IN THE ARAB REGION.

WRONG! YOU 🫵 CANNOT talk about 10/7 without acknowledging Gaza. And everyone with a functioning moral compass knows why…

So long as the Israeli right to exist is questioned or denied there will never be true peace in the Middle East.

THE HAMAS CREEP EL-SAYED MAMDANI CARES ABOUT 5yo CHILDREN? Like those Jewish children he ridiculed for causing GAZAN MURDERERS to put them in microwaves 7OCT? DEPORT THIS DANGEROUS LYING SACK O’SHIT HAMAS TERRORIST! WE’D HATE TO SEE MOSSAD DO ANYTHING TO INTERFERE WITH HIS MAYORAL DUTIES. NOT.

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Fox News has always been a stalwart ally of Bibi's Israel. Yet New Yorkers aid them by allowing their weaponized misinformation and lies to flow freely from their soil. So please, stuff like this is pointless if you all are refusing to go after one of the main root causes of everything wrong now.

It's issues like this when a smaller Dem party would be better. I don't want to vote for Dems who are ok with murdering Palestinians but I'm not going to vote Rep so they can kill Latinx here. It's why I don't vote as a conscientious objector. It's a farce and both parties are basically the same.

I think that, for the average politician from the #USA, this is much better language supporting a #FreePalestine than I've ever heard elsewhere from a nationally known politician.

Scenes of Gaza to a poem by Catalan rapper Pablo Hasél. What United States has made and is making possible after sewing itself into Israel to become its post-birth Siamese twin.

Israel has killed today at least 5 Palestinians, 4 in occupied Gaza Strip and one in occupied West Bank. Ali Hasan Al-Bazzari(44) was killed and 16 others wounded in a joint attack by Israel 's illegal colonialista and Israeli occupation forces on State of Palestine 's occupied West Bank.

Israel has killed 1215 Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank since October 7th 2023, 109 them this year. Israek had already killed ~10 000 Palestinians, nearly 3000 of them children, before Oct 7th during this century.

Yeah… I get the thrust of this message. And it’s good acknowledge the carnage that happened on Oct 7 2023. But making the majority message about the Palestinian side when it’s the anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since WWII is certainly a choice.

The population of gaza and the WB has about doubled over the last 30 years and roughly 1.3% of the total population has died in the conflict. Of that 1.3%, most were males 20-40 years of age. Also if tou look up statistics, 80% of all aide has reached its intended destination. far from a Genocide

All you jew haters wouldnt blink an eye if the roles were reversed and youd probably cheer it on while wearing your little terrorist starter kits, safe and sound, 1000 of miles a way. Good little do nothing hypocritical cowards.

You are a piece of shit whose insincere concern for the victims of 10/7 evident from your perverted post. Many brave Muslims were also slaughtered by Hamas & their confederates on 10/7 simply for helping Jewish friends You are such a putz There is no excuse for Hamas’ conduct on 10/7 or for you!

You are truly despicable.You use a horrific day to talk about Gaza.The senseless slaughter on 10/7 of ppl who primarily fought for the rights of Arabs as the murderers shouted death to all Jews is eclipsed by your perverted post The deaths in Gaza are criminal but not caused by the 🇮🇱 Victims!Pisher!

You could and should have stopped with the first paragraph, Mayor. There's 364 other days of the year when you could have condemned Israel's response to this atrocity. But this is like commemorating the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by lecturing us about our invasion of Iraq.

I wouldn't have an issue with a commemoration of 9/11 including an acknowledgement of the crimes committed by the US gov that were a result of 9/11 Honestly addressing one without the other gives a false impression that there is such a thing as actions without consequences

Nah, there is no bad day to point out the atrocities committed by our government as a response to 9/11. Our government used thousands of US victims and dishonored them by committing countless war crimes in their name. Netanyahu is doing the same today.

Israel has killed an order of magnitude more Palestinian children than the total number of Israelis who were killed (both by Hamas and the Israeli government, by the way) on Oct. 7. And, Israelis murdering Palestinians is still ongoing! So maybe, just maybe, know your place and be quiet.

Israel has been killing, forcefully removing, and torturing Palestinians for a century, and most Israelis are complicit in this. Yes, October 7th was a terrible tragedy that killed a lot of innocent people, but Israel deserves no sympathy for an attack in a war that they started.

This is what I spend every 9/11 doing because what we did in Afghanistan and Iraq is an atrocity so many orders of magnitude worse than 9/11. Also 9/11 was perpetrated in response to unchecked imperialism that has only gotten worse since, showing that America learned nothing and needs the lecture.

Was spending billions going into Afghanistan, killing innocents and American soldiers, to end the taliban... But only succeeding in creating a stronger better weaponised Taliban wrong . 🤔. YES.

You do realize it's fairly comment knowledge Netanyahu knew of the attack in advance? Even Charlie Kirk believed that. There was video circulating of an IDF soldier testifying the the Knesset about a stand down. This attack was allowed to further Israeli Lebensraum

And? So what? Bush was famously/infamously warned about 9/11 as well, but you didn't hear any official, including Mamdani, talk about that on the anniversary of the attack. Netanyahu is a piece of shit who should be in prison. That's irrelevant to my point.

I have no doubt 9/11 was allowed to happen at the very least. It was the "Pearl Harbor" event Wolfowitz said was needed to further the PNAC/neocon agenda. Which is securing Israeli and its hegemony in the middle east.

"commemorating the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by lecturing us about our invasion of Iraq" To be fair, DSA-niks often both-sides 9/11 too, typically by blaming "US imperialism" for the Al Qaeda attacks. I imagine repeating that trope on 9/11/26 was too risky even for Mamdani.

Living in NYC, I have had so many thoughts about 9/11, especially on/around each anniversary. We still grieve and remember about how that grief was exploited. How cynics abused our grief to divide the country, to demonize, silence, torture, kill. We’re still holding back 25 years later.

Why should he have to stop because of what he said hurts your feelings? Why shouldnt he remind the world that what's happening right now is because the US continues to enable it and we allow them to? And btw, yeah we did deserve 9/11 because of our presence in the Middle East...

Stopping at the first paragraph would be like mentioning 9/11 without acknowledging the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. The story wouldn't be complete.

Both the 9/11 terror attacks and the Bush wars led to innocent civilians dying. Since one was the direct cause of the other, I see no reason not to remember both on the same day. We already do something similar with Black Monday and The Great Depression.

That’s the norm. I’ve never heard a memorial ceremony of 9/11 that spends any much less 2/3s of the time on the wars on the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

No it’s a perfect time to blame Nutinyahoo for all of this terrorism! HE KNEW!! Where is the Israeli outrage for their people that he let them be martyred

It’s really worse than that, Charles. Mamdani’s intent isn’t to teach or even lecture. He’s deliberately inciting hate by rewriting history. The real history, the real problem, is genocidal Arab aggression against Jews, which he is carrying to the city he took an oath to protect.

Here's where it's useful to reflect on how Israel accepted peaceful coexistence and the 2 state solution via the Partition Plan and subsequent 2 state solutions. The other side hasnt, and that ongoing, viloent rejection, and the genocidal project to destroy israel is why there is war and not peace.

But every other day when people bring the other stuff up people ironically criticize you for not talking about Sudan (even though the people doing the criticism only talk about Sudan in that context).

Then don’t support Hamas or Hezbollah and their determination to eliminate the home of the Jewish people, the only democracy in the Middle East (despite that evildoer Netanyahu).

It’s crazy that some people can say don’t support terrorists when someone is denouncing those terrorists. We can also call a ♠️ a ♠️. A lot ppl who were mad the U.S. was blowing things up after 9/11 in the name of destroying terrorism aren’t mad that Israel is doing the same.

This 👆🏼. Exactly this 👆🏼. Behind every criticism of Israel - unless it’s from an Israeli (Jewish or otherwise) or a knowledgeable Jewish person elsewhere, I hear decades of well-funded, well-organized propaganda by fundamentalist Islamists.

What an atrocious statement. I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt but you have repeatedly shown your true colors. You don’t give a crap about New York City or its inhabitants. It’s all a stepping stone/grift to get you to a position where you can accomplish your true goal; destroy Israel.

wow this is so disappointing and graceless- Oct 7 is a day to contemplate antisemitism. not lecture about your pet cause. what a slap in the face to New York Jews.

You should have separated the two messages. Plus. Even the ICC calls Israel’s crimes “crimes against humanity,” not a genocide. Both on the same day would make sense. Those messages together make them seem equal. Which is terrible for both sides

you are doing the same thing as saying "it made sense that the Nazis killed as many people as they did, because they otherwise would have had to feed them, and they were at war after all." you are doing genocide denial

This is how History will remember this day, not as an isolated incident but holistically, with the necessary perspective. Thank you Mayor Mamdani for keeping it real.

I appreciate highlighting the fact that the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has been an ongoing process for decades... But when will you crack down on the illegal land sales? When will you end the NYC gov's complicity in this genocide and ethnic cleansing?

Okay, those are fair points. Hey, Mamdani, when can you lower the hostility of the police towards the people protesting these unconscionable acts and start pressuring Hochul and the state legislature to do something?

That's much more doable and is contigent on good ol' fashioned horse trading like how he got a few concessions from NYPD after keeping the old chief. (they once kidnapped DeBlasio's daughter and implied she might be Epstein-ed if he went forward with his planned reforms).

Unfortunately, he doesn't have the authority to revoke their tax exempt status. He tried to talk to the governor about it, and it went nowhere. At least he can say he tried....

Agree , only i think you should check the number you have quoted as killed by Hamas. There are credible reports a portion of these were killed by IDF Hannibal Directive.

what's the difference between "we shouldn't rank them instead of fighting them, have to make sure we fight all injusticies, not just the single worst one" and "we should pretend evils don't exist" do you see any differences?

Of course it is not victim blaming. The victims were civilians killed and kidnapped by Hamas, the blame goes to their government, who failed them. The government is not a victim.

Hamas was after hostages to exchange for hostages Israel had taken. Yes, they killed people, but that wasn't their primary goal. The IDF was the one with helicopters mowing people down indiscriminately because they couldn't distinguish Palestinians from Israelis. (cont)

that's not even what they said. of course it was a barbaric massacre. just uhhh who killed more innocents during it? be honest.

Note that Isreal is like the US with a population that has the good, the bad, and the evil. Unfortunately, the bad are supporting the evil leaders to carry out their evil agendas. Just like the incompetent, corrupt, misogynistic, pedophilic, felon Trump won a second term, so too can Netanyahu win.

I knew you would show your true colors today, you are no different than the ones who brutally murdered all those innocent Israelis on this day three years ago. I pray that New Yorkers wake up to this and make you a one term mayor.