(Free Beacon) Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said there is no room for pro-Israel voters within his coalition, arguing that fellow Democrats should not make “an exception” for people who are “progressive except Palestine.”
The Democratic nominee said his long history of anti-Israel activism — which includes founding the Bowdoin College chapter of the extremist and terror-aligned Students for Justice in Palestine organization — informs his belief that pro-Israel liberals should be driven out of the left.
“That exception is one that I believe we should not only take issue with because of what it means for Palestinians and Palestinian human rights,” he told the New York Times in an interview published Tuesday. “But also, whenever you are at peace with the making of an exception, you make it easier to make another exception — wherever, whenever.”
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