House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and socialist mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani finally sat down Friday for the first time since New York City’s primary — but the Democratic nominee left without an endorsement.
In a lukewarm statement, Jeffries called the pair’s hourlong meeting in his Brooklyn stomping grounds “constructive,” but did not indicate whether he would throw his weight behind the lefty candidate.
“We don’t really know each other well,” he has said. Jeffries has said Mamdani needs to “clarify” his stance on “Globalizing the Intifada” — a controversial phrase in the Israel-Gaza conflict.
That’s literally what world leaders who hate each other say after a state visit where nothing was accomplished. Jeffries is, as usual, full of shit and weasel words.
He just did. Directly to you. In a meeting specifically for that purpose. Stop lying.
It’s only controversial because Hasbarist demagogues make it so. Intifada just means uprising/resistance against oppressors.
The Warsaw Uprising, for example, is the Warsaw Intifada in Arabic.
And to be perfectly clear, Mamdani hasn’t even said it. It’s an islamophobic smear from a party willing to engage in bigotry to stop someone further to the left than they’re willing to go.
Absolutely. They’re very much complicit.