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Cuomo says key factor in his primary loss was Mamdani’s support from young, Jewish and pro-Palestinian voters (forward.com)
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“I would wager that in the primary, more than 50% of the Jewish people voted for Mamdani,” Cuomo told the crowd of around 450 at a breakfast event Sunday at the Hampton Synagogue.

He believed they were influenced by Mamdani’s appeal to younger and first-time voters who, Cuomo said, view criticism of Israel as opposing the policies of the Israeli government in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “They are pro-Palestinian, and they don’t consider it being anti-Israel,” he said.

“We have the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, and I was proud to be the strongest advocate,” Cuomo continued. “But many, especially younger people, don’t consider saying anti-Israel is different than being antisemitic.”

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[-] [email protected] 132 points 6 days ago

Because it’s not. You can be critical of the government of Israel without making it about the Jewish religion.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Or people of Jewish ancestry. That’s why antisemitism is not Judeaphobia. Jewish is an ethnicity as well as a religion. It’s a combination term for religious persecution and/or racism.

I’m genetically part Ashkenazi Jew according to 23andMe. I don’t practice Judaism, and my ancestors moved to the US to escape persecution by the Bolsheviks in Eastern Europe prior to the founding of Israel. More Jews live outside of Israel than within.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago

Nobbody is able to distinguish Jewish people from white people these days.

Ask any person on the street what a "Jew" looks like and they will shrug their shoulders.

Same with Italians, Irish, and other racial constructs people used to discriminate in the past.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

This is patently false and just a rehash of the same old attitude we've seen so frequently before.

If you're going to be a bigot at least try and be original

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

If I present you with 5 images of people you would be able to tell which is Jewish and which is not?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

You're conflating colourism with racism, I'm guessing you're in the US and your primary exposure to racism is via colourism?

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