Democrats in Congress, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), must do more than just condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” according to Abraham Foxman, the former longtime national director of the Anti-Defamation League.
“It is not enough for Sen. Schumer and other Democrats to condemn the phrase ‘globalize the intifada,’” he stated. “They need to condemn those especially in their own Democratic Party who not only do not condemn it but embrace and defend it.”
Zohran Mamdani, the party’s nominee for New York City mayor “not only embraced this call for violence against Jews in the past, but when he had several opportunities to refute this phrase, he ducked, refusing to ‘police’” others, Foxman stated.
Mamdani has drawn criticism for defending “globalize the intifada” as a legitimate expression of Palestinian rights, later defending it by claiming that the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum used the word “intifada” to describe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He drew a reprimand from the typically apolitical institution.
A Holocaust survivor, Foxman, 85, was national director of the ADL from 1987 to 2015.
