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Video: Zohran Mamdani Does Not Believe in Coexistence
(X) Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch - I met Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani after the primaries. Several prominent and liberal New York City rabbis spent an hour with him. We entered with open hearts and open minds. We were interested in taking the measure of the man. Zohran Mamdani is an ideologically committed, dogmatic opponent of the Zionist idea. He is not simply a critic of Israel. He does not believe in coexistence. He does not believe in two states for two peoples. His opposition to Israel is existential. He believes that Israel has no right to exist at all as a Jewish state in any territory. This is the position of Israel's most implacable foes. It is the ideology of Hamas, Hizbullah, Iran, and their supporters in the West. He doesn't hide it, he's proud of it. "The struggle for the Palestinian liberation was at the core of my politics and continues to be," he proclaimed in a 2023 speech to the Democratic Socialists of America. None of this is about coexistence. Anti-Zionism is an illiberal philosophy at its very core and it offends me both as a liberal and as a Jew. The writer, senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City, served as executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America.