Benjamin Netanyahu came to New York, addressed the United Nations General Assembly, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, protests followed. Hundreds of people gathered outside the United Nations to protest Netanyahu’s appearance and Israel’s conduct in Gaza. The demonstrations included Jewish, Palestinian and other New Yorkers, along with elected officials, candidates and activists. At one demonstration on Thursday,Continue reading “When Politics Meets Reality: Netanyahu, Mamdani, the NYPD, and Trump”
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Selective Outrage: Mamdani’s Loud Netanyahu Campaign and His Very Quiet Maduro Silence
There’s a pattern emerging with Zohran Mamdani that’s hard to ignore once you actually line the two situations up side by side, and it has nothing to do with legal nuance or jurisdictional technicalities, even though those things are real and do matter. It has to do with volume. Right now, this week, Mamdani isContinue reading “Selective Outrage: Mamdani’s Loud Netanyahu Campaign and His Very Quiet Maduro Silence”
The Prophecy Fulfilled: How Mamdani’s Netanyahu Dance Played Out Exactly as Predicted
I said it back when this whole saga first flared up, when Zohran Mamdani was still riding the momentum of his mayoral campaign and delighting his base with the kind of righteous, uncompromising language that wins primaries but rarely survives contact with the actual machinery of governance, that he would eventually find a way toContinue reading “The Prophecy Fulfilled: How Mamdani’s Netanyahu Dance Played Out Exactly as Predicted”
The Difference Between Political Theater and Political Reality in New York
There is a massive difference between what politicians say during campaigns and what they would actually do once they are sitting in office with the full weight of government institutions, diplomatic pressure, federal agencies, media scrutiny, police unions, donors, courts, foreign governments, and financial markets all staring directly at them. That difference is exactly whyContinue reading “The Difference Between Political Theater and Political Reality in New York”