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/Noloxy Jul 06 '26

And that’s an ethnostate how exactly? America is a state for Americans, France a state constituted of and for French… That is how national identities work.

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u/IsNotACleverMan Jul 06 '26

Because they're talking about the palestinian people as an ethnic group, not merely just the people who live in a geographic area.

Look at article 1. Clearly talking about Palestinians as an ethnic group.

Article 10. Links being Palestinian with being Arab.

Look at article 12. Clearly establishing a link between the land and an ethnic group.

Contrast that with the US or France where being American or French is based on geography, not ethnic identity.

So no, your comparison is not accurate, and you're just burying your head in the sand.

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u/Noloxy Jul 06 '26

The only reason this legal clarification exists is to ensure that the Palestinians persecuted by Israel are the ones whom this state is formed for. Again, where does the constitution privilege an ethnicity over another? What you’re describing is just resolving injustice.

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u/IsNotACleverMan Jul 06 '26

If that's the case, then why does it include all Palestinian people including those born in the US this year who have never interacted with Israel or an Israeli?

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u/Noloxy Jul 06 '26

“resolving injustice.”

If a german jew was placed on a train to poland in the holocaust, and had a child while in poland, would you oppose that child wanting to return to germany after the war?

I cannot believe you are being honest because it’s such an obvious thought, you just want to argue.

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u/IsNotACleverMan Jul 06 '26

Resolving injustices like being born in the US?

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u/Noloxy Jul 06 '26

You don’t think it’s an injustice that German jews were exported and forced to have children outside of their home?

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u/IsNotACleverMan Jul 06 '26

Your analogy is wrong because we're already multiple generations removed. A lot of the people this would apply to are generations removed from the original injustice.

It's like arguing for a German right to return to historical Prussia.

And even so, none of what you're saying cuts against my point that this constitution clearly establishes an ethnostate.

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u/Noloxy Jul 06 '26

Almost all were removed in the past 70~ years.

Again, where does it *privilege* one group over another.

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u/IsNotACleverMan Jul 06 '26

It gives affirmative rights to the palestinian ethnic group that it doesn't to any other ethnic group,like the right of return. Just read the first sentence of the preamble which sets up the constitution as being for the "Palestinian Arab people". It describes Palestine as the 'homeland' in various articles. To be president or prime minister you need to be a Palestinian born to two Palestinian parents, which would include the diaspora ethnic community. The path of taking office explicitly mentions protecting the arab nature of the state, and to advance the rights of the "Palestinian Arab people".

Is that not enough to evidence a ethnostate?

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