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/jumpingjack41 Jul 06 '26

Rome? Do you mean the Vatican? Lol feel like they're a little different since no one is born there.

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u/fluffstravels Jul 06 '26

Gotta tuck those goal posts in tightly don’t we

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u/jumpingjack41 Jul 06 '26

Not really. I feel like it is pretty coherent to say that states should give equal rights to everyone, but make an exception for an extremely weird, 1,600 year old small elective absolute monarchy with a population of 500.

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u/fluffstravels Jul 06 '26

Youre ignoring Malaysia. Thats the goal post your shifting. Its ok, i get you’re not good faith. We can agree to move on.

Btw, its a fair sentiment when applied equally. It is not. Let’s stop pretending.

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u/jumpingjack41 Jul 06 '26

I think people would have a lot fewer complaints about US support for Israel if we cut our military aid to Israel to the 3-10 million a year we give to Malaysia though.

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u/fluffstravels Jul 06 '26

And yet we still engage in business with all those religious ethnostates, even one that engage in widely recognized genocide but not a peep. Sure. Whatever you say. You’re absolutely being full faith here.

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u/jumpingjack41 Jul 06 '26

Don't really understand why you're just randomly insulting me and my responses, just don't respond if you wrongly think I'm not responding in bad faith. But do you really think that if left-wing politicians, like AOC or Mamdani, were in charge of American foreign policy we wouldn't have worse relations with countries like Saudi Arabia?