Mamdani Merely Refused to Endorse Genocidal Zionist Supremacy and Apartheid

The recent decision by New York City Mayor, Zohran “The Shining Star” Kwame Mamdani, not to partake in the annual Israel Day Parade this year, was perfectly in keeping with his clearly and boldly articulated principled respect for the equal rights of all humans, regardless of racial affiliation, background, ethnicity or political and religious persuasion or inclination while on the electioneering-campaign last year (See “NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Skips Annual Parade Celebrating Israel” Associated Press [AP], 5/31/26).

The parade, we are reliably informed, was established in commemoration of the 1948 founding of the Jewish State of Israel; but what clearly appears to have been conveniently ignored by Radical Zionist Revanchists and the so-called Pro-Srael Activists, Lobbyists and Politicians, both Jewish and Non-Jewish, is the “NAKBA,” the deadly and the catastrophic displacement of the Pre-1948 inhabitants of the hitherto predominantly Arab-populated globally recognized State of Palestine by the European Jewish Victims of the Nazi-orchestrated Holocaust in the Hitler-ruled Germany and other parts of Western and Central Europe, shortly thereafter.

The Holocaust, globally acknowledged as a heinous crime against humanity, was a thoroughly and a completely European Problem and a Dilemma entailing wanton savagery and unspeakable barbarism deeply underlaid by socioeconomic and the geopolitical exigencies of the time, pretty akin to the present-day white-supremacist and fascist political culture of the Trump-presided Agenda-2025 Right Wing “Rapepublican” Government of the United States of America, a patently and a decidedly European Problem that, in the memorable words of late African American autodidact scholar and thinker Dr. John Henrick Clarke, ought to have been properly and organically resolved or definitively settled inside the European Heartland of Germany and Austria, among several other countries of the present-day European Community (EC) or the European Union (EU).

Yet, an implacably hostile and virulently Racist and Anti-Semitic Europe nefariously chose to settle what the European Leaders, nearly each and every one of them, nonchalantly characterized as the “Jewish Menace” by literally deporting these putative socioeconomic and cultural undesirables, with the knavish complicity of a cabal of Zionist Irredentists, to the largely Mythological Original Homeland of the Jews in the present-day Israel and Palestine, before the former.

It was, of course, a wrongheaded decision and choice of destination, since most of these European Jews, so-called, and their ancestors and forebears had been uninterruptedly domiciled within the European Community or World for at least some 2,000 (Two-Thousand) Years by most reliable accounts and estimates, that is, much, much longer than Diaspora Indigenous Continental Africans have been forcibly domiciled right here in the United States of America and other parts of the Americas and the Caribbean, formerly known as The New World. In short, other than plain and Naked and Baldheaded Mythology, practically speaking, the overwhelming majority of the European Jewry, as they are popularly known or have become popularly known in our time and age, had absolutely nothing uniquely “Palestinian” or “Israeli/Israelite” about them, other than their religious and cultural affinity or affiliation with a thoroughly and temporally transformed ideology and mythology of Judaism, pretty much akin to the present-day religio-cultural practice of Rastafarianism in Jamaica and several parts of the Caribbean and even some marginal enclaves and communities in Africa.

Not quite exactly like Rastafarianism, one supposes, especially when one also critically reckons the temporal stability and chirographical potency of The Torah or The Bible, though culturally speaking, most European Jews are decidedly European in every respect and sense of the term. But actually, what I really wanted to shine the spotlight on is the fact that by the most reliable ancient accounts of the “Originary” narratives of Judahite Genealogy, the present-day Jews are actually Iraqis from the Biblical City of Ur, as in “Burp.”

At any rate, during the aforesaid NAKBA, that is, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War that precipitated the establishment of the Modern Jewish State of Israel, approximately One-Million Palestinians are known to have been displaced. Now, we are not even talking about the number of Palestinians who lost their lives in the process, though one could reasonably fathom the same by referencing the estimated number of the Gaza and the West Bank Arabs/Palestinians who lost their lives during the most recent Anti-Palestinian Pogrom led by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin “Mileikowsky” Netanyahu, in whose genocidal venture, fully backed by both former President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Incumbent US President Donald John Trump, an estimated 100,000 (One-Hundred-Thousand) Palestinians lost their lives, in direct retaliation for the approximately 2,000 (Two-Thousand) Israelis alleged to have been massacred by a Hamas-orchestrated paramilitary assault during the Supernova (Peace) Music Festival Celebration, on October 7, 2023, in Southern Israel.

Ultimately, what is of utmost significance to note and/or observe here is the fact that unlike many of his predecessors, New York City’s Mayor Mamdani knows how to deftly and seamlessly balance his deep-seated and morally unimpeachable convictions with a meticulous and an evenhanded approach to cosmopolitan governance, such as direly needed in our present-day Global Village. Which is why immediately on his assumption of the reins of the New York City Mayoralty, on January 1, 2026, the former State Assembly Representative from Queensborough, New York, had absolutely no qualms in retaining Ms. Jessica Tisch, a Jewish woman, as a holdover New York City Police Commissioner. And by the way, going by her curriculum vitae or resume, PC Jessica Tisch ranks among the topmost candidates to have ever been named as New York City’s Police Chief.

Now, what is inimitably fascinating about the working relationship between our Muslim Mayor and our Jewish Police Chief regards their hitherto historically unprecedented ability to vehemently and publicly disagree on policy matters and still work together amicably and harmoniously and mutually respectful of each other. In the news story on which this brief commentary is based, we are significantly informed by the AP reporter, Mr. Anthony Izaguirre, that: “Support for Israel among Americans has deeply eroded in recent years, a trend that accelerated amid the outcry over Israeli military action in Gaza.”

Now, what the preceding quote/quotation obviously means is that Mayor Mamdani’s widely alleged Pro-Palestinian stance puts the 34-year-old student of Global African Studies and graduate of the prestigious Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, smack among the mainstream of progressive-thinking Americans, precisely the sort of ideal leader and leadership that, as already adumbrated above, a Cosmopolitan New York City has been avidly and voraciously craving but has been woefully bereft of for decades, with the singular exception of former Mayor Bill de Blasio - aka Warren Wilhelm, Jr.

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
SUNY-Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York
E-mail: okoampaahoofekwame@gmail.com

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