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Mamdani’s pro-Palestinian views drive 83% of his voters, progressive group poll shows

2025-07-31

[IsraelTimes] Survey released Tuesday by the pro-Palestinian IMEU Policy Project claims nearly 78% of primary voters also believe Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza

Zohran Mamdani’s advocacy for Paleostinians was a motivating factor for most of the New Yorkers who voted for him in the mayoral primary, new polling from a progressive research group suggests.

Most voters who showed up for Mamdani were inspired by his campaign to lower costs and tax the wealthy, according to the poll conducted by Data for Progress and released by the Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project on Tuesday. But their third-most motivating issue was "his support for Paleostinian rights," which drove 62% of his voters.

New Yorkers who never voted before, a surge of tens of thousands of people, were especially motivated by Mamdani’s pro-Paleostinian beliefs — 83% said it drove them to the voting booth.

How many of his new voters were Imaginary-Americans? How many of his longstanding voters? New York City has well over a century of experience with Machine Politics.

Mamdani, who is running to be New York’s first Moslem mayor and has said that Paleostinian rights are central to his identity, sharply criticized Israel’s offensive in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
during the primary race. When drilled repeatedly by journalists and opponents, he said that Israel was committing genocide against Paleostinians and that he supported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.

As mayor, Mamdani said he would have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested upon setting foot in New York, citing the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister — though it’s doubtful he’d be able to follow through, as the US is not an ICC member. His refusal to condemn the pro-Paleostinian protest slogan "Globalize the intifada" — a position he has since softened — drew allegations of antisemitism.

It turns out that many primary voters were on his side, according to the poll commissioned by IMEU Policy Project, a pro-Paleostinian advocacy nonprofit. It found that 78% agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, 79% support restricting weapons shipments to Israel and 63% say that Netanyahu should be arrested if he visits New York.

I seem to recall that the Democratic primary there had such low turnout that only about 8% of New York City voters actually pulled the lever for him, which admittedly says nothing about his overall popularity.

The poll of 531 primary voters conducted earlier this month has a margin of error of 4%.

The results add to those from a different poll released this month, by a conservative polling firm, that found about 30% of New York City voters said they were more likely to vote for Mamdani after learning his positions on Israel.

Mamdani’s victory signals a shift in the plates underlying the Democratic party, which has long treated support for Israel as a guarantee. In New York and across the United States, Americans’ opinion of Israel’s actions in Gaza has plummeted and a growing number of leaders, including rabbis and Jewish institutions, have reacted with horror to the humanitarian crisis in the enclave.

"Democrats

...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
cannot hope to win future elections if they fail to speak directly to the pain so many Americans are feeling," said Margaret DeReus, executive director of the IMEU Policy Project. "Not just the pain of dealing with rising costs and a more fragile safety net, but the real grief of seeing Israel commit grave atrocities against Paleostinians in Gaza using our tax dollars."

Some traditional pro-Israel Democrats, such as Jewish Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, have criticized Mamdani’s approach to rhetoric about Israel. But some have also been sharply critical of Israel over the last few days.

Former reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
mayor Rahm Emanuel, who is Jewish

…and though the son of an Israeli who spent many summers there as a child, he clearly turned his back entirely to the olde countrie…

and recently accused Mamdani of "not hearing a big constituency" of New Yorkers worried about antisemitism, took a stance against the Israeli government on Monday. In response to Netanyahu’s denial of starvation in Gaza, he said, "From a strategic standpoint, from a moral standpoint, and from a political standpoint, it’s fully bankrupt."

Another vocal pro-Israel Democrat, Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York, said in an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday that Netanyahu had done "irreparable damage" to Israel’s relationship with Democrats in the United States. He added that support for the alliance between the United States and Israel was "eroding," and anyone who denied that was "ignoring the numbers."

Posted by:trailing wife

#4 I'm that old also SteveS. There were a couple of rats worth supporting even...like Scoop Jackson.

Posted by: alanc 2025-07-31 18:51

#3 Democrats are just American-Globalist party.

Man, I'm so old I remember when the Democrats were on our side. At least nominally, anyway.

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

-- President John F. Kennedy, inaugural address

Posted by: SteveS 2025-07-31 09:32

#2 years and years of blood libels 'reported' by the NYTimes and agiprop by commie and islamophile professors have done this

Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-07-31 08:01

#1 Democrats are just American-Globalist party.

Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-07-31 01:45

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