Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City – Mondoweiss

Zohran Mamdani, in condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its Zionist principles while running for New York City mayor, in objecting to “any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else,” embodies an intercultural NYC tradition that goes back over a century in NYC. In the wake of Great Britain’s 1917 Balfour Declaration that opened the doors for a Jewish nation in Palestine, Zionism animated debate among not only the 1,600,000 Jewish…