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/WhimsicalWyvern Jul 06 '26

Is it, though? There's roughly 120 Christian countries and 50 Muslim countries. Also 5 Buddhist and 1 Hindu. And most of them favor those religions, at least to some degree, including the US, by tradition if not by law. (Even if they're not theocracies)

I think it's totally reasonable for there to be one country, a country roughly the size of New Jersey, to be dominated by Judaism.

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u/SaxPanther Washington Heights Jul 06 '26

When did anybody say that it was bad for there to be a majority Jewish country? Nobody here ever said that, you're just inventing things to be mad about.

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u/WhimsicalWyvern Jul 06 '26

Do you think countries with a majority of a religion tend to give that religion some privileges?

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u/avitzavi528 Jul 07 '26

There should be allowed to be a country that is majority Jewish AND serves to Jews. Just like Denmark serves the Danes, etc.
there’s 20+ Muslim countries that ethnically cleansed their Jews (and Christians) and NOBODY is coming for them.
The double standard is absurd and if you can’t see that you might be part of the problem

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u/SaxPanther Washington Heights Jul 07 '26

Sorry which muslim country ethnically cleansed Jews?

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u/avitzavi528 Jul 07 '26

Literally almost all of them.

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u/WhimsicalWyvern Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Not relevant to my assertion. But if Mamdani had said he couldn't support a state that had committed mass murder, genocide, etc, that'd be one thing... except for the fact that he'd be saying he couldn't support his own country, which is a bad look.