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Cuomo says key factor in his primary loss was Mamdani’s support from young, Jewish and pro-Palestinian voters

“I would wager that in the primary, more than 50% of the Jewish people voted for Mamdani,” Cuomo told the crowd of around 450 at a breakfast event Sunday at the Hampton Synagogue.

He believed they were influenced by Mamdani’s appeal to younger and first-time voters who, Cuomo said, view criticism of Israel as opposing the policies of the Israeli government in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “They are pro-Palestinian, and they don’t consider it being anti-Israel,” he said.

“We have the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, and I was proud to be the strongest advocate,” Cuomo continued. “But many, especially younger people, don’t consider saying anti-Israel is different than being antisemitic.”

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Because it’s not. You can be critical of the government of Israel without making it about the Jewish religion.
- Indeed. Fuck Israel and its leaders, but Jewish people who oppose the massacre living in Israel and abroad did nothing wrong and deserve protection from antisemitism
  
  cumuo already used the anti-semitic angle to blame jewish people, albeit a section of the group.
- You can also be for someone's right to live without being racist / hating jews.
  This whole "pro-Palestine = antisemite" spiel is getting old.
  
  The whole "pro-Palestine = antisemite” was a naked appeal to Racism.
  Those who are pro-People (Humanists) don't care about the ethnicity of the aggressors or the victims, only the inherent character of the actions being committed.
  It's only the Racists who would judge the actions differently depending on the ethnicity of the aggressors or the victims.
- Remember when the U.S. entered an antisemetic war in Afghanistan? Or when Trump launched those antisemetic strikes on Iran recently?
  If those weren't anti-Semitism, I don't see how we could say Israel's actions of slaughtering other semites are bad, is anti semtic
  
  I dont think Afghanistani or Persian ethnic people are semitic. Iraq would probably count but probably a majority of Muslims in the world aren't semitic.
  
  I'm pretty sure neither Afghans nor (most) Iranians are semites. Non-Jewish Semitic peoples mostly inhabit what is now the Arab world.
- Indeed. Antizionism is simply not antisemitism
- The Israelis holding protests are heroes. I love seeing news about that. They understand that it’s not about ideology; it’s about being a decent human being.
- Or people of Jewish ancestry. That’s why antisemitism is not Judeaphobia. Jewish is an ethnicity as well as a religion. It’s a combination term for religious persecution and/or racism.
  I’m genetically part Ashkenazi Jew according to 23andMe. I don’t practice Judaism, and my ancestors moved to the US to escape persecution by the Bolsheviks in Eastern Europe prior to the founding of Israel. More Jews live outside of Israel than within.
  
  Nobbody is able to distinguish Jewish people from white people these days.
  Ask any person on the street what a "Jew" looks like and they will shrug their shoulders.
  Same with Italians, Irish, and other racial constructs people used to discriminate in the past.
"Mamdani won because he got the support from more voters than me!"
— Sherlock Cuomo
- I mean, the bigger reveal is him admitting that over half the Jewish vote probably voted for Mamdani.
  He pushed the antisemitism HARD. Every outlet pushed the antisemitism HARD. He's admitting point blank it failed miserably.
  
  And he's admitting that new york jews are torn on Israel. That's huge.
- he also included jewish people as the reason he lost.
"It's the jewsssss".
Every time. No surprise there.
"We don't address the concerns of young people because young people never vote!"
"It's not fair! Young people voted for someone who addressed their concerns!"
In entirely unrelated news, a man discovered that he only missed his flight because he went to the wrong airport, late and without his ticket.
My generation grew up in the US being condescendingly laughed at by older more cynical people saying over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again that Young People Never Vote So Stop Trying To Be Optimistic And Push For Better Things.
Now Cuomo is the voice of the conservative element of the boomer generation that is deluded into thinking they are progressive or give a shit about younger people in any way and probably don't even consider themselves Republicans (though everything that comes out of their mouth sounds Republican-lite if not downright brainwormed authoritarian apologist).
The most jewish city on earth besides Tel Aviv has RESOUNDINGLY spoken against the genocide of Palestinians. It is that simple.
Andrew Cuomo's words are anti-democratic, they are anti-jewish in the sense that they vividly misrepresent the majority will of jews living in New York City and the US in general, Andrew Cuomo's words speak to a cancerous rot that is now exploded into the open in the US Colonial Empire's necessary conflation of Israel with Judaism.
Silicon Valley, the Finance Industry of the US and big business in the US in general has utterly consolidated around profiting off of the Palestinian Genocide especially as a means of delaying the popping of the AI bubble by using it as a means to obscure complicity in actors conducting the Palestinian Genocide. Blood is on all of our hands and in order to escape that horrific realization centrists will dive into the simple, relieving comfort of anti-semitism, conservatives that are PRETENDING to be the friends of jews right now are counting on it.
This is necessary for the next step, which is escaping complicity with the now undeniable Palestinian Genocide by turning the rightwing violently anti-semitic en masse through introducing a time tested "the Jews betrayed us again by fooling us into committing genocide for them!!!!!!!".
Any Jews still on the side of Israel here are openly inviting an era of mass violence and subjugation of the jewish people, Netanyahu is COUNTING on that.
- Any Jews still on the side of Israel here are openly inviting an era of mass violence and subjugation of the jewish people
  One only needs to look at the Middle East for a demonstration of that in action. Most Arab countries had Jewish populations in the tens or hundreds of thousands, but they were either intimidated into leaving or forcibly expelled during the 20th century as a misguided extension of anti-Zionism.
I would wager that in the primary, more than 50% of the Jewish people voted for Mamdani
I hate when people say shit like this. What a stupid way to spin being less popular.
"I think a key factor in my opponent winning was getting more votes than I did."
- All I hear.
- The demographics matter though.
  
  Didn't more than 50% of everyone vote for him though? So it's not really saying anything, except implying that Jews shouldn't have voted for him..
the anti-semitic angle, labeling jewish people as the cause of your failings, classic nazi, and not like platforms that claim your nazi for criticizing israel.
“We played it safe,” he said. “I [Cuomo] didn’t engage him. I didn’t debunk him enough. I wasn’t aggressive enough.”
Zohran Mamdani reportedly tells business leaders he will ‘discourage’ the phrase ‘globalize the intifada’
Cuomo blasted Mamdani’s clarification, accusing him of “fueling antisemitism.”
“‘Discourage’ people, that’s a wink and a nod,” Cuomo said. “No, you should condemn people saying it. That’s hateful speech.”
I, for one, am glad that Cuomo will be more aggressive. The election showed that aggression is exactly what people don’t want. Also, equating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with “hateful speech” is exactly the kind of idiocy that shows how out-of-touch Cuomo is.
This election has energized young voters. Some may have been indifferent before, but the news coverage since the election has been relentless. If anything, Mamdani will become more popular.
- Eh. Unless they do ranked choice, getting energized after the primary is just trying hard to split the vote. He should get energized... for next election.
Blame everything else besides you being a shithead.
Or just that your messaging is old and tired and your track record spoke for itself?
This guy sounds like a fucknut
Gee, ya think? Ya fuckin' moron? Really? Cause you nailed it, Mr Stopped Clock.
"Duh doy dum dee… Anti-genocidism is anti-semetism, doy!"
-ShitheadCuomo
Wait, you have to be an appealing option for people to vote for you now? Guess I won't get into politics then

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