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A leaked Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) document outlining the organization’s demands for New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) has left many social media users stunned.
Just The News’ Jerry Dunleavy obtained and published a document from the DSA’s Anti-War Working Group articulating the organization’s demands for Mamdani, a longtime member.
Those demands are:
- Divest City pension funds from Israeli bonds and securities
- Withdraw City funds from banks that lend money to Israel or do business in Israel
- End City contracts with companies that do business with Israel
- Operate City-run grocery stores free from Israeli products,”
- Investigate real estate agents hosting illegal sales of stolen lands in the West Bank,”
- Evict weapons manufacturers and transporters from the NYC Metro Area
- Divest CUNY endowment and reinstate wrongly fired professors,”
- Dismantle Eric Adam’s NYC-Israel economic council,”
- End repression of demonstrators and the SRG [the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group]
- Remove non-profit status from charities that raise funds for IDF
- End NYPD training with IOF
- Arrest Netanyahu and active IDF soldiers for
war crimes
The reaction to Dunleavy’s reporting has been substantial.
“The DSA finally has a sympathetic mayor in NYC, and almost every single one of their policy demands is tied explicitly to Israel. This is weird, scary, and insanely stupid stuff,” mused centrist Tangle News founder Isaac Saul.
“Complete and utter insanity,” declared Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY). “As Chair of the Middle East and North Africa subcommittee on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I will be watching closely and will conduct hearings if @ZohranKMamdani and New York City engage in policy detrimental to US Foreign Policy.”
“This is the essence of antisemitism — the obsession with the Jew. It amounts to a grotesque inversion of reality spun up by a fevered and phlegmatic mind that cannot conceive of reality free of hook-nosed puppeteers wrapping their arms around a hapless globe,” submitted Free Press columnist Peter Savodnik.
“Here we go,” mused Fox News’ Guy Benson tersely.
“This DSA anti-Israel to-do-list will likely be implemented by Mayor Mamdani,” predicted writer Joel Petlin. “To be clear, singling out only one country in the entire world for economic ruin, and that country is inhabited by a majority of Jews, is the textbook definition of Antisemitism.”
But wait, there’s more:
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