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Mamdani again accuses Israel of ‘deliberate’ starving of Palestinians

The Democratic frontrunner for New York City mayor criticized the Jewish state for detaining people on a flotilla.

Zohran Mamdani
New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani at the “Resist Fascism Rally” in Manhattan on Oct 27, 2024. Photo by Bingjiefu He via Wikimedia Commons.

Zohran Mamdani, the state representative who is frontrunner in the New York City mayoral race, attacked Israel again on social media on Friday, after the Jewish state detained people on a flotilla who claimed that they intended to deliver aid to Gazans.

Mamdani, who has criticized the Jewish state frequently and said that he would have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if the premier comes to the Big Apple, accused Israel of war crimes.

“They must be freed at once, and the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now,” he said.

“The charging by the FBI of Haverford College associate professor Guangtian Ha for harassment and intimidation of a Jewish Israeli professor closes the dotted line between verbal acts of harassment and actionable violence which, when Jews are the recipients, is far too often ignored,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus, of the Deborah Project, told JNS.
Luis Har was freed from captivity in Gaza in a daring Israeli military operation 129 days after he was abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
The Jewish state lowered its flags to half-staff at 6:29 a.m. to launch commemorations honoring fallen soldiers and victims of the 2023 assault.
The policy goes “far beyond the boundaries of legitimate political debate,” the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said.