Zohran Mamadani's Success: A Triumph of the People

Success, Smears and the new Sun of Hope

Mamadani’s Success

The weaponization of Mamdani’s faith has been a prominent feature of the opposition’s campaign. Yet last night he swept to victory in the New York Mayoral elections, blazing a success trail through a sea of divisive rhetoric and hackneyed tropes that left Republican dreams of success mere debris in its wake.

The young, dynamic Muslim son of Ugandan immigrants demonstrated that taking an honest, principled stance steeped in unflinching integrity, combined with speaking directly to the people of New York City, can light the touchpaper of success and set alight the edifice of lies constructed by the Zionist powered establishment, reducing their hopes to ash and challenging the tyranny of an elitist system.

Drawing together the diverse demographics of a multi-racial city through policy ideas that speak directly to their lived experiences and real needs - rent freezes, free city buses, universal childcare, public grocery stores and a tax on the cities wealthiest residents - makes Mamdani a man of the people rather than yet another puppet of the Zionist lobby; his emphatic refusal to pander to those influences that promote policies benefitting the few and cushioning the elite, is a radical departure as well as an affront and challenge to the establishment that long sold its principles and sold out the American people by funnelling billions into forever wars abroad.

Mamadani’s unremittingly honest criticism of “Israeli” atrocities in Gaza that aroused the same tired accusations of “anti-Semitism” from the usual parties, had little effect on his voters, and rightly so – the continual brandishing of this term to silence legitimate criticism of “Israel” has divested it of any authority and diminished its relevance.

Polls showed that Mamdani won around a third of the overall Jewish vote and approximately two thirds of the younger Jewish vote, which not only places accusations of anti-Semitism firmly in their place, as the desperate smears of those who not only use generalisations and labels rather than facts to fuel their campaign of hate, but also demonstrates that their political weaponization of “anti-Semitism bears little relevance to the sentiments of the many people, who looked beyond convenient propagandic veneers of falsehood.

The implication that thousands of Jews, especially younger ones voted for Mamdani, speaks to the widening cracks appearing in a hitherto largely unchallenged construct of ideological distortions that has placed “Israel” at the centre of a narrative of victimhood that allowed for a two-year genocide to unfold unimpeded.

Clips of Mamdani next to the Palestine flag demolish simple minded falsehoods equating “pro-Palestinian” with terrorism and even work to challenge the stringently despotic and dictatorial definitions of “anti-semitism” wielded by the likes of the IHRA, instrumentalized to beat people into submission and silence.

Something about his refusal to abandon his principles and to even double down on his stance, reveals the kind of blazing authenticity that commands respect and magnetises people; contrast this with the cheap image of Trump with his unbridled pursuit of gifts and big money bribes, his allegiance to “Israel” and sleazy Mar-a-lago excesses as well as his lurid criminal trial and counts of felony; an appropriate darling of the Zionist establishment, he personifies their traits to perfection.

Mamdani’s unflinching support of Palestine that is in line with the dictates of international law and his vocal opposition to the genocide, far from damaging his campaign, rightly foregrounded him as a person of moral conscience and therefore a person who can be implicitly trusted.

In contrast the hesitation of many Democratic Party members to openly endorse Mamdani in the lead up to the elections, spoke to their own moral cowardice, presenting a stark opposition to Mamdani’s radical departure from the traditional position of appeasing “Israel”. Such refreshing moral clarity from those in power, is what people of conscience everywhere, have longed to hear.

The despicable and morally craven displays of desperate sycophancy towards “Israel” and “Netanyahu” by Cuomo and the Democratic primaries candidates’ with their proclamations of loyalty and allegiance exemplified a stance, it seems, that many New Yorkers, especially the younger generation - who have seen raw, unfiltered footage of “Israel’s” atrocities in Gaza - are no longer swayed by, immune to the mainstream Zionist fuelled rhetoric and lies.

Billionaire donors, Wall Street banking elites, and indeed the entirety of the morally decaying establishment itself – all were defied through Mamdani’s spectacular success, none could undermine his statements that appealed directly to New Yorkers eager for change and sceptical of a corrupt leadership, more disillusioned than ever by a system whose priorities are to foreign states and billionaire interests over the people themselves.

Mamdani pointedly stated in his recent interview with Mehdi Hassan that he does not seek to create his own laws like Trump, but “to operate within the bounds of international law”; also that the time for “Netanyahu” to be celebrated and to make military decisions from this city is over.

His description of the “shame” felt by New Yorkers for their complicity in the genocide, places him as unique and authentic at a time where other politicians not only fear challenging “Israel” but attempt to subvert our reality before our very eyes by colluding with the media and other establishments in upholding the “Israeli” narrative.

Zionism’s Labels, Generalizations and Smears vs the Logic of Reality

Zionists everywhere were alarmed by Mamdani’s popular support and unprecedented success, unable to contain their shrill fury nor to stem their unbridled vitriol, with “Israel’s” minister of diaspora affairs and combating anti-Semitism, Amichai Chikli, announcing that Mamdani’s views were “not far from those of the fanatic jihadists” who carried out the October 7 attacks.

The cynical deployment of inflammatory, emotive and racially pointed terminology such as “fanatic” and “jihadist” is designed to bypass peoples critical thinking abilities and appeal directly to their fears and prejudices rather than using logic or rational argument based on facts – one of the key defining tactics of Zionists as a whole.

The irony is, that Chickli’s description of Mamdani as “A supporter of Hamas, someone whose views are not far from those of the fanatic jihadists who murdered three thousand people 25 years ago,” deploys the by now tired stereotypes held only by the stupidest or utilized only by the most desperate propagandists, who support genocide, ethno-supremacy and the killing of innocents.

Avigdor Liberman, chairman of the Yisrael Beytenu opposition party, branded Mamdani as a “racist” with again, absolutely no evidence to support his claim, but as we now know, every accusation is a confession, and his declaration that “Just three decades after the Twin Towers disaster, New York has elected a racist, populist, and openly Shiite Islamist as its mayor,” rings hollow, an indictment only of the fraudulent speaker.

To invoke the spectre of 9/11 and weaponize the past trauma suffered by New Yorkers in order to attempt to defame the mayoral candidate is the lowest of tactics and the most despicable of cheap shots, yet testimony to the desperation of the Zionist lobby, to hold onto a narrative that is clearly spiralling from their grip as more and more people see through the easy lies.

Chickli, Lieberman and all the other Zionists who threw a fit after Mamdani’s success, continued the Zionist tradition of taking their own collective crimes and projecting them outwards: murder, fanaticism, racism, ethno-supremacy and terrorism are all the proven hallmarks of “Israel” and Zionism, livestreamed to the world over two years and indeed boasted of with unbridled impunity, arrogance and the swagger of the psychopath. Too late now, to attempt to impose these labels upon others, through the use of lazy stereotypes. This is to undermine the intelligence of the people. Perhaps the time for this kind of power play is over.

Mamdani’s success offers a glimmer of freedom from the despotic hold of tyrants and dictators, the “sun” of Mamdani’s closing quote: “The sun may have set over our city this evening, but ... I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity” symbolizes the light of collective unity eclipsing the darkness of an establishment that was hitherto unable to inspire the people or ignite their hope, in the way that this man has. Let us hope that this is the inception of a turning point.