What’s with the @nytimes.com harassing Zohran Mamdani repeatedly about disavowing the phrase “globalize the intifada”? It has written several articles featuring accusers of Mamdani for not affirmatively denouncing this slogan which means different things to Palestinians and Israelis—but doesn’t...
Mamandi is a threat to the Establishment. The same Establishment avidly defended by the Times. Hence, he must be denounced for a phrase he's never used and made to disavow it. The Dem power brokers see Mandani as the disruptive other and he must be defeated by any means necessary.
... demand that these accusers disavow their support of Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza and his starvation policies. This is mischievous, somersault journalism engaging in uncalled for wordplay while ignoring the accusers support, complicity or silence regarding the U.S.-backed Palestinian Holocaust.
That includes PA Gov. Josh Shapiro and Rahm Emmanuel. They and other Mamdani accusers have never disavowed the vicious, violent, racist epithets hurled against Palestinian people as an ethnicity by high Israeli officials over the years.
What’s going on inside the New York Times is often excellent reporting by Times journalists reporting out of Jerusalem—although barred from going into Gaza by Netanyahu with the approval of Biden and Trump—and suppressed editorials, misleading headlines, and passive voice writing...
...until recently, to take some heat off the Netanyahu regime. Never discount the constant pressures by their columnist Bret Stephens (Palestinian hater and voice of Netanyahu) who brings the daily threat of frivolously accusing Times people of antisemitism, and the influence of AIPAC and Netanyahu
...regime backers into the journalistic climate at the Times. The real dynamics regarding the electoral ascension of Mamdani relate to his three main opponents—Wall Street, the NYC Real Estate Industry and the Israeli-Government-Can-Do-No-Wrong Domestic Lobby.
They are working daily to undermine his potential victory in November. Those are the interests that the New York Times should be addressing with their reporters and editorials. -R