Mick Hartley

Jenny Holland at Spiked on prospective NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and his poor auntie:

Progressives took a break this week from their collective nervous breakdown over President Trump’s White House renovations in order to respectfully mourn with Zohran Mamdani, whose hijab-wearing ‘aunt’ – actually his father’s cousin – felt weird one time after thousands of New Yorkers were evaporated in the 9/11 Islamist terrorist attacks.

Mamdani’s words alone – ‘I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who stopped taking the subway after 11 September because she did not feel safe in her hijab’ – would have been ill-judged enough. But the way he delivered them was even worse. As he stood outside the Islamic Cultural Centre in the Bronx, his voice faltered, he bowed his head and he choked back tears… just because his ‘aunt’ did not want to ride the Subway?

It was quite a performance. In a city that lost 1,169 residents in that cataclysmic act of Islamic terrorism, he stood in front of a row of people in religious Islamic dress, and had the audacity to pretend that Muslims were the ‘real’ victims of 9/11.

A good time, perhaps, to recall Norm MacDonald’s joke:

“I can’t say my friend’s name, but he said his biggest fear is that ISIS or some terrorist group like that will get a hold of a dirty bomb that exploded over a major city within the United States and kill tens of millions of people — because then the blowback against… innocent Muslims would be absolutely terrible.”

He, Zohran Mamdani, is also on record as saying “The struggle for Palestinian liberation is at the core of my politics and continues to be”, and “We have to make it clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF”. So Israel controls the New York police?

He’s currently favourite to win the mayoral election, in a city that has the second largest Jewish population in the world, just behind Tel Aviv. Good luck, New York.