Mamdani’s moral obscenity

Saturday, October 10, 2026

Zohran Mamdani, New York City's mayor, set off a firestorm of criticism Wednesday morning with a social media post ostensibly intended to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Israelis. It devoted a brief paragraph to condemning Hamas and commiserating with its victims. The rest was a much longer denunciation of Israel's "ongoing genocide in Gaza," a "world in which occupation and apartheid continue" and a situation in which "our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment." In response, Ammiel Hirsch, the president of the New York Board of Rabbis, said the statement was "so offensive to so many Jews that it is hard to describe how offensive it is." In fact, it's a moral obscenity. Let me count the ways.

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POSTED BY BELLRINGER

The Israelis have killed, nastily, 1,000 Palestinians for every Israeli who was murdered.

Enough.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-10 02:57 PM | Reply

POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Still looking for that old moral high ground in that stinking swamp you live in.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-10 02:58 PM | Reply

I'm a borderline Hall of Fame troll, Alexandrite. I easily elicit multiple responses with a single post. And it doesn't take any effort.
#27 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-06 05:42 PM

#3 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-10 03:03 PM | Reply

POSTED BY BELLRINGER

idk Mamdani is getting it from both sides.

First he does the social media post, then goes to a Israeli vigil, then eats dinner at a Palestinian restaurant.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-10-10 03:21 PM | Reply

Dez and TruthNLies are hilarious, from their posts you can tell they have no idea whats happening.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-10-10 03:22 PM | Reply

In response, Ammiel Hirsch, the president of the New York Board of Rabbis, said the statement was "so offensive to so many Jews that it is hard to describe how offensive it is."

Those Jews themselves are offensive to so many Jews.

What's hard to describe is Jewish reasoning for what was obviously Israel's practice of apartheid and is now genocide.

Jesus wept. But "They don't make Jews like Jesus anymore."

#6 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-10 03:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"It devoted a brief paragraph to condemning Hamas and commiserating with its victims. The rest was a much longer denunciation of Israel's "ongoing genocide in Gaza,"

The amount of time was proportional to the number of children killed by each side.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-10 03:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"so offensive to so many Jews that it is hard to describe how offensive it is."

So move to Israel?

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-10 03:48 PM | Reply

The essential question is "does Hamas' attack on 10/7 justify the ongoing genocide and pogroms and war crimes and wars of aggression being conducted by Israel?"

#9 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-10 03:59 PM | Reply

#6. It's not genocide. Lemme guess, those filthy Hews got what the deserved on 10/7, right?

#10 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-10-10 04:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Lemme guess, those filthy Hews got what the deserved on 10/7, right?

#10 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

If coming here makes you this angry, don't come here.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-10 04:14 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#6. It's not genocide. Lemme guess, those filthy Hews got what the deserved on 10/7, right?

#10 | Posted by BellRinger

www.ushmm.org

Let's look at the Holocaust museum's definition of genocide

The legal term "genocide" refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Genocide is an international crime, according to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948). The acts that constitute genocide fall into five categories:

Killing members of the group

Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction, in whole or in part

Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Clearly Israel has been doing some if not most of the 5 categories.

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-10 04:15 PM | Reply

So, let's look at intent

Key Statements by High-Ranking Officials

Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister): Netanyahu invoked biblical references in October 2023 regarding Amalek"frequently cited in legal proceedings (such as South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice) as an allusion to total destruction"stating: "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, saith our Bible." In other addresses, he spoke of turning Gaza into a "ruined city" and declared that Israel's response would "reverberate for generations."
Yoav Gallant (Former Defense Minister): In the days immediately following October 7, 2023, Gallant announced a total siege on the Gaza Strip, stating: "We are imposing a complete siege on Gaza. There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed." He also publicly referred to the combatants and context by stating: "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly."
Isaac Herzog (President): During an October 13, 2023 press conference addressing accountability for the population in Gaza, Herzog stated: "It's an entire nation out there that is responsible. It's not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It's absolutely not true... and we will fight until we break their backbone."
Bezalel Smotrich (Finance Minister): Smotrich has repeatedly advocated for the re-settlement of Gaza and suggested that starving or depriving the entire population of Gaza might be "justified and moral" until hostages are returned, remarking in early 2024 that it is "justified and moral, even though nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger, even though it might be justified and moral."
Itamar Ben-Gvir (National Security Minister): Ben-Gvir has publicly called for the total encouragement of the "voluntary migration" of Palestinians out of Gaza and demanded cutting off humanitarian aid and fuel into the territory until Hamas is completely crushed.

euromedmonitor.org

en.wikipedia.org

#13 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-10 04:18 PM | Reply

Pogroms committed in the West Bank

www.btselem.org

For decades, Israel has employed a slew of measures designed to make life in dozens of Palestinian communities throughout the West Bank miserable. This is part of an attempt to force residents of these communities to uproot themselves, seemingly of their own accord. Once that is achieved, the state can realize its goal of taking over the land. To advance this objective, Israel forbids members of these communities from building homes, agricultural structures or public buildings. It does not allow them to connect to the water and power grids or build roads, and when they do, as they have no other choice, Israel threatens demolition, often delivering on these threats.

#14 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-10 04:20 PM | Reply

I think if you ask the average Israeli leader they would proudly state they were committing genocide against the Palestinians

#15 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-10 04:21 PM | Reply

Jeff will next JUSTIFY the genocide with something about the way islam treats gay people.

#16 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-10 04:21 PM | Reply

It's not genocide.
#10 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

What is it then?

Here's your chance to set the record straight.

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-10 04:22 PM | Reply

#6. It's not genocide.
#10 | Posted by BellRinger

We can work with that.

The essential question is "does Hamas' attack on 10/7 justify the ongoing non-genocidal pogroms and war crimes and wars of aggression being conducted by Israel?"

What's your answer?

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-10 04:24 PM | Reply

the way islam treats gay people.
#16 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

Is how MAGA wants homosexuals treated.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-10 04:24 PM | Reply

The Republican Party's Moral Obscenity is in the White House.

And a "denunciation of Israel's "ongoing genocide in Gaza," is totally called for.

#20 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-10 04:25 PM | Reply

"For decades, Israel has employed a slew of measures designed to make life in dozens of Palestinian communities throughout the West Bank miserable. This is part of an attempt to force residents of these communities to uproot themselves, seemingly of their own accord."

^
JeffJ doesn't think it was genocide when we wantonly slaughtered the plains buffalo, to starve out the Indians.

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-10 04:27 PM | Reply

What a garbage opinion piece.

Reading it was a waste of time.

No wonder BellRinger posted it.

It conflates being Jewish with supporting Netanyahu's genocide.

Then really lays it thick.

What nonsense.

#22 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-10 04:30 PM | Reply

"It conflates being Jewish with supporting Netanyahu's genocide."

If you oppose Netanyahu, you want to murder every Jew.

In fact, you hate Jews so much, you'd put the Jews in captivity, where they'd breed, making an endless supply of Jews for you to kill, while also demonstrating that it's not a genocide because you let some of them live in captivity, like animals at the zoo.

This comment is about Palestinian refugee camps.

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-10 04:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Lemme guess, those filthy Hews got what the deserved on 10/7, right?
#10 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

And the hundreds of Jews killed fleeing in their cars by IDF gunships and killed hiding in their Kibbutzim by IDF tanks, they were spared a fate worse than death!

You have roughly the same beliefs about Palestinians that the average WWII Japanese soldier had about American GI's.

What's worse is, it's fun for you. You get off thinking about kids dying.

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-10 04:40 PM | Reply

-"They don't make Jews like Jesus anymore."
#6 | Posted by Dbt2

Some people wonder why the NT ends with a fallen, corrupt Jerusalem being replaced by a New Jerusalem from on high; a symbolism that convicts Israel, and the world, of their crimes.

#25 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-10 04:42 PM | Reply

Ballwasher voted for someone that raped children THREE TIMES

#26 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-10-10 04:43 PM | Reply

Ballwasher voted for someone that raped children THREE TIMES

I find conservatives to be the biggest hypocrites on earth.

#27 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-10 04:50 PM | Reply

Thanks, Truth, for posting the commonly accepted definitions of genocide.

Not just for Nazis and Rwandans.

The world turned their heads at the horrors in Rwanda. Most nations are trying not to repeat errors of the past. The US should be on board with that.

By the way, you've got some fucking nerve posting under a headline about moral obscenity.

The conservatives are not only publicly twisted and proud of it, they think all the dumb librulz reading their tripe have no memories.

#28 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-10 05:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"You" being BellRinger, not Truth.

#29 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-10 05:42 PM | Reply

I was all ready to be offended! :O)

#30 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-10 06:23 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

It's not genocide.
#10 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

What is it then?
Here's your chance to set the record straight.
#17 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

Didn't want to take a swing at this?

That's okay. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have had anything constructive to contribute to the discussion.

#31 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-10 07:30 PM | Reply

Unthinking Tribalism is the Obsce"nity.

Disproportionate Murders and Ethnosupremacism are the Obscenity.

Ethnic Cleansing is the Obscenity.

Aggressive War and Displacement of Civilian Populations are Obscene.

Waah,Waah,we're the ETERNAL Victims.

It's So "Offensive" to tell the Truth.

"Never Again" for Me, Not for Thee.

#32 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-10-10 07:40 PM | Reply