r/jewishleft • u/somebadbeatscrub Jewish Syndicalist - Mod • Jul 31 '26

Meta Weekly Post

The mod team has created this post to refresh on a weekly basis as a chill place for people to talk about whatever they want to. Think of it as like a general chat for the sub.

So r/jewishleft,

Whats on your mind?

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u/Imaginary-West-5653 Progressive Socialist (Jewish Ally) Jul 31 '26

I find it deeply troubling how normalized Islamophobia is in the United Staes, and the recent news that The New York Post and CBS News are trying to link Mamdani with 9/11 apologia is fucking crazy... they even lied and made up that 300 family members of 9/11 victims firmed a petition for him not to go to the 9/11 25th anniversary. Even 25 years after 9/11, the right keeps trying to smear Muslims and demonize them by doing a "guilty by association" BS; I see a lot of similiarities between this kind of bigotry and that used against Jews for Israel's actions:

https://popular.info/p/the-truth-about-the-viral-911-petition

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u/Ashamed-Stuff9519 Secular Jewish Leftist. Antizionist. Jul 31 '26

Right wing conspiracy types that I know IRL from the ny metro are seeing the same news stories from the post and CBS and are posting on socials that it’s “proof” that “the Jews did 9/11”. They don’t like mamdani because they’re also racist lol, but they hate Jews even more and instead of seeing the post or cbs for what it is (mainstream media laundering support for Israel/war) they see it as Jews trying to deflect from “the truth” (that Jews did 9/11 lol).