You have to give New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani one thing—he doesn’t hide it very well. His racism, his antisemitism, and his radical leftist extremism aren’t whispered in smoky back rooms. No, he says them out loud, with a straight face, into microphones, and on national television. The only time he pretends not to mean them is when the public backlash finally reaches his well-manicured ears.
This week, Mamdani sat across from NBC’s Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press" and was asked—over and over—whether he condemned the phrase “globalize the intifada,” a rallying cry from anti-Israel, often antisemitic extremists around the world. And like every coward who knows the truth would get him disqualified from polite society, let alone public office, he bobbed, weaved, deflected, and flat-out refused to give a straight answer.
Welker—hardly anyone’s idea of a conservative hardliner—pressed him again and again. His response? A word salad of disingenuous nonsense about “liberation” and “context,” without ever acknowledging what every rational person watching already knows: globalize the intifada means spreading violent, armed insurrection against Jews and the state of Israel—period.
Let’s not play stupid. The word intifada isn’t complicated. It’s not poetry. It’s not ambiguous. It refers directly to two bloody waves of Palestinian terrorism—the First and Second Intifadas—that murdered thousands of innocent Israeli civilians in cafes, buses, markets, homes, and schools. Suicide bombings. Rocket fire. Stabbings. Children blown apart. That’s the historical, factual, undeniable meaning of intifada.
When Mamdani refuses to retract that phrase—when he insists that “globalizing” it is some kind of beautiful call for freedom—he’s not just gaslighting you. He’s endorsing it. He’s declaring that the violent murder of Jewish civilians isn’t just tolerable—it’s exportable. It’s a blueprint.
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And then there’s his other charming slogan: “Tax white neighborhoods.” Oh yes, that little gem.
When first caught saying it publicly, Mamdani tried to spin it as an academic thought exercise. You know, the ol’ “equity in taxation” bit. Funny how it always ends with punishing people based solely on their skin color. In Mamdani’s worldview, being white isn’t just a demographic descriptor—it’s a taxable offense.
Imagine, just for a moment, if any other politician suggested “Tax Black neighborhoods” or “Tax Muslim neighborhoods.” Their career would be over before the sentence finished leaving their lips. They’d be rightly driven out of public life, shunned as the bigot they would clearly be.
But when Mamdani does it? When he openly advocates for race-based taxation? Crickets from the progressive media class. And on Meet the Press, he played it exactly the same way. “Oh, that’s not what I meant.” “It’s about systemic issues.” Nonsense. No amount of Ivy League parsing makes “tax white neighborhoods” anything but the raw, festering racism that it is.
This isn’t a one-off gaffe. This isn’t “taken out of context.” This is the context. It’s the left’s not-so-secret operating system. Under the banners of “equity” and “liberation,” they justify raw racial animosity and violent antisemitism—so long as it’s directed at the right targets.
When Mamdani says “globalize the intifada,” he’s not talking about peaceful protest or civil disobedience. He’s invoking a movement that celebrated lynching Jews in the streets, that burned buses with schoolchildren aboard, that made suicide vests a regular fixture of morning commutes in Tel Aviv.
When Mamdani says “tax white neighborhoods,” he’s not talking about closing budget gaps. He’s broadcasting the core belief of today’s neo-Marxist left: that whiteness itself is a crime, that success built by any non-approved racial group is inherently suspect, and that the solution isn’t opportunity but punishment.
And let’s be honest. This isn’t just some wild-eyed activist holding a megaphone in Union Square. This man holds elected office in New York state. He writes laws. He votes on budgets. He shapes public policy for millions of people.
The fact that NBC even had to ask him whether he condemned globalize the intifada is itself a sign of how degraded the political discourse has become. The fact that he refused to answer tells you everything else you need to know.
The Democratic Party is at a crossroads. They can’t keep pretending this isn’t happening inside their own tent. The Squad, the DSA, the campus Marxists—this is their endgame. Divide America by race. Demonize Jews worldwide. Pretend it’s justice.
Mamdani isn’t an outlier. He’s the prototype.
You want to know where this goes? Look at college campuses where Jewish students are barricaded into libraries for their own safety. Look at mobs chanting “Death to America, Death to Israel” in downtowns from coast to coast. Look at the teachers’ unions passing resolutions to support Hamas. That’s where it goes.
And every time some empty suit on cable news pretends this is just “complicated” or “nuanced,” they’re complicit in it.
This is simple. There is no moral gray area in terrorism. There is no legitimate policy in racial revenge. There is no freedom to be found in lynch mobs or suicide bombs.
Zohran Mamdani may think he’s clever. He may think dodging basic moral questions on national television makes him sophisticated.
What it really does is expose him for exactly what he is: a small, angry, bitter bigot who wraps his hatred in just enough intellectual jargon to make himself palatable to a dying media ecosystem and a morally bankrupt progressive base.
And if voters have any sanity left, they’ll run—not walk—to the ballot box to send him into permanent unemployment.
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