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As the saying goes, when you’re a hammer, the whole world looks like nail.
Exhibit A is the case of Mayor Mamdani, who has the nasty habit of twisting public events into an opportunity to bash Israel.
On Tuesday, he distorted St. Patrick’s Day and the long history of the Irish in New York to hijack the annual celebration and turn it into the latest example of his shameful obsession with the Jewish state.
In the midst of praise for Ireland and its former far-left president, Mary Robinson, at a Gracie Mansion breakfast, the mayor made a weird detour so he could hammer away on his favorite target.
Of Robinson, he said “I think also of how she stood steadfast alongside the people of Palestine. I say this as over the past few years, as we’ve witnessed a genocide unfold before our eyes, there has been deafening silence from so many.”
In case anyone didn’t get his point, he described Robinson as a rare voice in advocating “for universal human rights and the extension of them to Palestinians,” adding that “silence, however, is nothing new, for Palestinians are so often left to weep alone.”
He ascribed her politics to Ireland’s history, saying, “Who can better understand those who weep than those who have been made to weep for so long? The story of the Irish, both in Ireland and in New York City, is at one time a story of oppression, of subjugation, and of discrimination.”
‘Colonial project’
That was a cue for an attack on Great Britain over its brutal rule of the Emerald Isle, saying “it was on Irish soil that the British Empire developed their colonial project. So much of the exploitation later imposed elsewhere across the world was first honed in the plantations of Ireland.
“And yet when I think of the Irish, I do not think first of oppression. I think of resistance. I think of unity,” Mamdani added, before making a joking reference to corned beef and soccer.
There is nothing funny and everything wrong with the mayor’s hatred for Israel. That he is unable to bite his tongue even amidst the glory of a sunny St. Patrick’s Day reveals a disturbing compulsion.
As Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, put it in a blistering statement, Mamdani “is a master of the politics of victimization” who appealed to “his left-wing Irish friends by reducing the the story of the Irish, both in Ireland and in New York City . . . to a story of oppression, of subjugation, and of discrimination.”
Mamdani has been doing something similar with his biased reduction of the situation in Gaza, especially with his repeated use of the word “genocide” to describe the war there.
The habit marks him as ignorant of history — or a liar.
To get to his hobbyhorse, he first must ignore the actual facts of Gaza, namely that it was Hamas, not Israelis, who savagely oppressed the enclave’s 2 million Arab residents.
One key fact he never acknowledges is that Gaza was and still is a Palestinian-ruled state. But that independence was not good enough for the Jew-hating Hamas, which has in its charter a pledge to wipe Israel off the map.
That is the terror group’s reason for being, and its brutal leaders have never given a fig about how many Palestinians have to suffer and die for their evil cause.
The pursuit of that goal resulted in its invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
The documented atrocities, including the beheading and burning of children, the horrors of rape and torture and the taking of 251 hostages, have never caught Mamdani’s attention or interfered with his anti-Israel prejudice.
His wife’s social media approval of the bestiality is disturbing enough, but the mayor’s history on the subject is not significantly better. His gift of words has been put into the service of defending monsters.
Double standard
His refusal to accept Israel as the legitimate homeland of the Jewish people and his support for the boycott, divest and sanctions movement marks him as an antisemite.
He has never applied the same standards of tolerance and equality to any Muslim nation, most of which have zero Jews.
Nor did he ever object over the years when Hamas leaders were stealing billions of dollars in international aid destined for Gaza and living in luxury in Qatar and Europe.
He remained silent when it was obvious that construction supplies and equipment that were earmarked for Gaza housing and clean water projects were diverted into building tunnels and rocket launchers for Hamas.
Even last October, when Hamas released the final hostages it had taken in exchange for Palestinian prisoners convicted in Israeli courts, he couldn’t resist the chance to hop on the genocide bandwagon.
He wrote on X that as “New Yorkers who’ve felt the pain of the past few years . . . we have watched as our tax dollars have funded a genocide.”
He also fell back on other tired antisemitic talking points by demanding an end to “occupation and apartheid.”
If compassion for the truly oppressed were his driving force, New York City’s mayor would have been in the forefront of those denouncing the Iranian Islamist regime after it slaughtered some 30,000 of its citizens in January for the crime of peaceful protest.
Instead, his silence spoke volumes and underscored that for him, as with so many others in his camp, a key ingredient was missing:
No Jews, No News.