To escape the shame of white European Anglo-saxon antisemitism that produced such fine productions of western civilization as Slavery, the Spanish Inquisition or the German Holocaust, those very same antisemitic Jew-haters (The American Nazi Party, your average GOP republicans, the Ku Klux Klan, MAGA, Proud Boys, etc..), have elaborated a vaccine called "antimsemitism" to posture themselves as defenders of Jews.
But this posture has no universal character: It does not apply to generic racism and hatred of everything and everyone who who is not white Protestant Christian of European descent. It is strictly developed by the "Judeo-Christian" fallacy to assuage the guilt of having persecuted Jews for two millennia. There is no "morality" to the western fake defense of Jews, because if there were, it would be universal and extend to defending any other human being, regardless of their origin, race or religion.
Alas, at the same time that they claim to want to defend Jews, the white Christian European and American racists hate everyone else on the planet. They don't like Asians, they don't like Arabs, they don't like Latin Americans, and we know very well how much they continue to hate Africans.
Imagine the contrast between the Holocaust and Slavery:
The Holocaust lasted 4 years and killed 6 million Jews. It involved herding people out of their homes, towns and cities and into concentration camps where they were starved and worked to death for 4 years, subjected to torture and human experimentation, then disposed off in high-tech ovens.
Slavery, on the other hand, lasted 400 years (16th to 19th century) and killed tens of millions of Black Africans. The estimate of the number killed during the transatlantic slave trade varies, but given the time frame of 4 centuries, it is likely to be much much higher than 6 million. The official UN estimate is 17 million. But reasonable estimates usually agree on 60 million. The slave trade involved herding people out of their homes, villages and cities, ferrying them in chains across the Atlantic on ships, putting them to work in atrocious conditions, including torture, beating, raping, whipping, lynching and killing.
The horror of the persecution of Jews during WWII by the white Christian anglo-saxon Germans can never be understated, but why is the persecution of Black Africans over four centuries swept under the rug, and anti-Africanism continues to be fashionable among the perpetrators of both the Holocaust and the Slave Trade?
Why is it OK for white American Christians to have an anaphylactic reaction when a Swastika is painted on a wall, but to indulge in indifference when a white American Christian officer kneels on the neck of a Black African and suffocates him to death?
Again and again, and without falling into the trap of creating new terms and definitions, it is acceptable in White Christian American circles to hate anyone who is not white Christian, except Jews. In fact, Jew-hating has not disappeared; it is still present, but it has been subdued and camouflaged under a veneer of fake Christian love and is indeed tolerated because of the utility to the West of the Jewish colonial implant in Palestine. Had Israel not being created out of Holocaust-guilt artifice and crooked British (and now American) colonialism, antisemitism would still be shamelessly flourishing in the West.
But when it comes to non-Jews, hatred and xenophobia towards all other human groups that are not white christian is guilt-free, vocal and widely prevalent and acceptable.
Zohran Mamdani is a case in point. He's not white. He's not Christian. Culturally and perhaps even ethnically he's closer to a Jew than to a European descent white American. Had he been a Jew, no one would dare say a word against him. But he's not a Jew. He's a Muslim with an ethnic background that - typical of America - is the bastardization and hybridization of a variety of origins that seems to irk White Christian Americans to the bone. Zohran Mamdani is a "brownie" of Indian origin, born in African Uganda to an Indian father and an Indian-American mother.
So they must hate him. Especially because he is successful. For some reason, his Indian origins do not seem to make him exploitable like a Jew would be. Is India with its 1.5 billion people not as valuable as Israel's 5 million Jews? Could he not be shielded against racism by the utility of India to the long-standing Western tradition of raping other countries and nations?
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Top Democratic Senator Goes On Wildly Racist Tirade Against Zohran Mamdani
Sanjana Karanth
Mon, June 30, 2025
A top Democratic senator has joined the mostly right-wing chorus of Islamophobic attacks against Zohran Mamdani, launching a shockingly racist tirade riddled with lies against the party’s recently elected Muslim mayoral candidate for New York City.
Last week, New Yorkers elected Mamdani as the Democratic nominee for November’s mayoral general election, beating out scandal-ridden former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Despite the young progressive skyrocketing in popularity, his campaign faced repeated attacks from the right on his identity as a Muslim American immigrant – attacks that only increased after his primary win.
Repeating that rhetoric is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York who angrily made unsubstantiated claims about Mamdani’s beliefs during a Thursday radio appearance on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show.” The senator had responded on-air to a caller’s unfounded claims that New York’s Jewish community is facing threats as a result of Mamdani’s win.
“The caller is exactly the New York constituents that I’ve spoken to that are alarmed. They are alarmed by past public statements. They are alarmed by past positions – particularly references to global jihad,” Gillibrand said. “This is a very serious issue, because people that glorify the slaughter of Jews create fear in our communities. ‘The global intifada’ is a statement that means, ‘Destroy Israel and kill all the Jews.’”
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attend the 2025 New York City Pride March on June 29, 2025 in New York City. Noam Galai via Getty Images
The Arabic word “intifada” is used to describe uprisings and rebellions, most commonly the decades-long Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation. “Globalize the intifada” is a phrase used by some activists to express solidarity with the Palestinian liberation movement. The Arabic word “jihad” means to struggle, though over time many non-Muslims in the U.S. have come to believe the word is synonymous with religious violence.
Gillibrand’s comments likely referred to a prior interview where Mamdani was asked if he would denounce the phrase, “Globalize the intifada,” to which he has repeatedly answered that while he does not use the term himself, he will not use the office of the mayor to police speech in the way that President Donald Trump does.
Lehrer pushed back at least three separate times during the interview with Gillibrand, reminding the senator that Mamdani has spoken extensively about his commitment to protect all New Yorkers – including the Jewish community – and that there is no evidence of the Democrat ever having expressed support for the violence Gillibrand and the caller accuse him of.
Despite the fact-checks and admitting she does not “have all the data and information,” Gillibrand continued to push the lie that Mamdani endorses rhetoric that endangers Jewish New Yorkers, without mentioning the anti-Muslim hate rising alongside antisemitism. After facing protests and public backlash for her comments, the senator’s office told Rolling Stone on Friday that she “misspoke.”
A group of Democrats rally in front of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's (D-N.Y.) office to protest her racist remarks made on WNYC Radio's Brian Lehrer Show about mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in New York City on June 27, 2025. Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images
“Why is Senator Gillibrand parroting divisive Republican fear-mongering about Zohran? He has pledged from day 1 to combat anti-semitism & protect Jewish New Yorkers like me,” New York City councilman Lincoln Restler posted on X in response to her comments.
“Voters are clamoring for a vision to make life in our city more affordable – not politicians who just try to make us scared of each other,” he continued. “I wish the Senator took the time to do her homework and get her facts straight before attacking the Democratic nominee for mayor.”
Gillibrand’s comments were followed by fellow New York Democratic Rep. Laura Gillen, who this weekend pushed the lie that Mamdani has called for violence against Jewish people. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday joined in elevating the false claims about Mamdani, demanding on ABC’s “This Week” that he clarify his position on Palestinian-related slogans.
“We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary – some blatant, others latent,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said on Sunday. “Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.”
Mamdani has not directly commented on the senator’s rhetoric, but was asked Sunday by NBC’s Kristen Welker about whether he condemns the same phrases Gillibrand accused him of supporting. The progressive made it clear that he would not take the bait, maintaining that the public should focus less on slogans and more on his words and actions supporting all people in historically diverse New York City.
“That’s not language that I use. The language that I use and the language that I will continue to use to lead this city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights,” he told “Meet the Press.” “And ultimately, that’s what is the foundation of so much of my politics, the belief that freedom and justice and safety are things that, to have meaning, have to be applied to all people, and that includes Israelis and Palestinians as well.”
The pressure on Mamdani to denounce certain phrases or groups unrelated to him is just the latest incident of Muslim public officials facing scrutiny at a level advocates say is much higher than non-Muslim officials.
“We know these attacks all too well. At a time of increased violence against elected officials, we cannot allow the attacks on Zohran Mamdani to continue. They directly contribute to the ongoing dehumanization and violence against Muslim Americans,” four Muslim members of Congress wrote Friday in a letter. “We unequivocally reject the normalization of anti-Muslim hate and fearmongering and call on elected leaders across our country to speak out.”
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