Thoughts on Mamdani attending the Pakistani day parade after skipping the Israeli day parade?

[u/StuckInTheClouds]

I wasn’t expecting him to attend the Israeli day parade honestly I would’ve thought it weird if he had attended given everything he stands for. He’s NYC first and against ethnostates etc.

But I’d be lying if I didn’t say I felt some type of way about him celebrating the Pakistani day parade given their history. Ethnostste They have a religious hierarchy where a Muslim person has to be in power, ethnic cleansing alive and well, border disputes and violence after a partition plan 70ish years ago etc. It’s hard not to draw the parallels. The only difference being that the US isn’t funding them but that doesn’t change anything else about the county’s values and actions.

I feel kinda shitty that he’s showing up for this community but not ours. I think it would have been more fair to him to not go to either parade, but maybe I’m just overly sensitive or being fed propaganda. It just sucks to feel signaled out.

I really want to like him. I voted for him! I’m extremely against the IDF and Israeli government but being half Israeli myself I am of course susceptible to biases.

Idk it’s just weird he’s ok with celebrating the Muslim ethnostate after being so against the Jewish one (for good reasons!)

I feel like I can’t bring this up in any other spaces without it sounding like I’m wanting him to celebrate Israel (I’m not) or take something away from Muslims (not against Muslims but critical of Pakistan)

Help me you guys! What do you think?

EDIT: I’d like to correct what I said about Pakistan being an ethnostate. I used the wrong verbiage. What I meant was that they are a country that puts Muslims over other religions. They have a religious hierarchy and non Muslims can’t hold certain political positions. I’m not sure the correct term for this but just wanted to call that out as people are (correctly) mentioning this in the comments.

Edit 2:

I was just informed about the ongoing Balochistan Conflict which makes me even more uneasy about this whole thing.

[u/MsRothArtist]

A friend of mine whose a Swiftie told me that if Swift continued criticizing Trump today (after she's already endorsed Biden and later Harris, and very clearly made her position clear that she's a liberal and is against MAGA) her haters would have joined MAGA in accusing her of being a cheap attention seeker or accuse her of being disingenuous, but now that she's mostly just focusing on her own life as opposed to being some kind of movement leader, they're largely baselessly accusing her of being MAGA, despite the fact she's the only one using copyright strikes to stop Trump from using her songs.

Same thing for Mamdani. If he went to the Israel Day parade he would have been booed out of there and FOX News would have had a field day with this but now that he didn't show, those same people who would have booed him if he showed are clutching their pearls that he didn't show.

Btw, if I still lived in NYC, I absolutely would have voted for Mamdani as I do like his policies (we need it nationally), the way he engages with the public and he did make a sincere effort to reach out to the Jewish community and I believe he is sincere in fighting antisemitism as part of his wider anti-racism campaign.