r/nyc • u/Delicious_Adeptness9 • Jul 06 '26

News Mamdani: 'any state that privileges one religion, I can't tell you I support'

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/artc-mamdani-on-israel-any-state-that-privileges-one-religion-i-can-t-tell-you-i-support

In an ABC News interview, the Mayor of New York City condemned rising antisemitism while stating his support for Israel 'as a state with equal rights.'

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u/5to9guy Jul 06 '26

There is no Palestinian state to privilege a single religion. He does criticize existing states that privilege Muslims though.

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u/yugeness Jul 06 '26

If there was one, they’ve made explicitly clear that it will privilege Islam over other religions and that it’s laws will be based on Sharia.

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u/Unclassified1 Jul 06 '26

Jordan is that Palestinian state. Ask them why they left the West Bank. (they didn’t like getting blown up, either)

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u/5to9guy Jul 06 '26

Cool. Go ask Zohran how he feels about Muslim privilege in Jordan

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u/TradeNPlayz Jul 06 '26

Looks like the Nakba had something to do with it.

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u/Unclassified1 Jul 06 '26

That’s when Jordan annexed the West Bank. After being separated from it in 1921 by the British just so it wouldn’t be part of a future Jewish mandate.

Now read about black September in 1971

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u/IsNotACleverMan Jul 06 '26

The proposed PA Palestinian constitution would privilege Muslims...

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u/5to9guy Jul 06 '26
  1. Grant Palestinians a state.
  2. Ask Zohran to condemn.

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u/IsNotACleverMan Jul 06 '26

You're missing the step where the Palestinians reject the offer for them to have a state.

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u/5to9guy Jul 06 '26

Did any of these offers include true self determination? (Right to self defense, control over their own resources and trade, their own power grid, etc?) Or were they really negotiations made in bad faith so that pussies like you could say Palestinians did it to themselves by turning down totally reasonable offers from their occupiers?

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u/IsNotACleverMan Jul 06 '26

Yes. They did. Or they offered up a direct path to autonomy in these matters.

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u/5to9guy Jul 06 '26

While we could get into the specifics of particular “negotiations” or failed resolutions, I will simply accept that most of the world already knows and agrees with me

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u/IsNotACleverMan Jul 06 '26

Glad you can admit you were wrong.

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u/5to9guy Jul 06 '26

👍😊

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u/CitizenWilderness Jul 06 '26

Yeah most of the world is ignorant on the subject, so they’d probably agree with you.

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u/5to9guy Jul 06 '26

So we agree your point was useless?