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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22729/zohran-mamdani-israel
Mamdani Erases History
(Gatestone Institute) Kenneth Levin - New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently released a map of ethnic enclaves in the city. The map labels neighborhoods as "Little Palestine," "Little Egypt," and "Little Pakistan" - recently arrived Muslim immigrant communities - but absent is any acknowledgment of the city's prominent and historic Italian, Irish, Jewish or Puerto Rican neighborhoods. Their history and prominence are simply erased. Palestinians claim they should be acknowledged as the exclusive claimants of what is now Israel and that the Jews are recent foreign interlopers whose presence should be nullified and erased. The reality is, of course, the opposite. Jewish history in the land goes back more than 3,000 years. Islam didn't even exist for most of that time. The Jewish presence in the land was unbroken throughout that entire history. The only coherent use of "genocide" to characterize events in the area is the genocide advocated by the Arab side, where Hamas calls in its charter for the annihilation of all the world's Jews as a religious obligation, and the Palestinian Authority advocates the murder of Jews in its media, mosques and schools.