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In a CNN <\/em>interview earlier this week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani discussed his decision to skip the city\u2019s annual Israel Day parade, stating that his choice was not rooted in antipathy toward Jewish New Yorkers but rather opposition to Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Mamdani said that he still played a role in ensuring that the parade was safe for participants.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy job [as mayor] was to prepare for that parade, to ensure it could be a safe experience,\u201d the mayor explained.<\/p>\n

His decision not to attend the parade was a political stance against Israel\u2019s genocide of Palestinians, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSolidarity with a government that is committing genocide is a very different thing than a question of solidarity with people of a specific faith,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cI\u2019m proud to be a mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The annual Israel Day Parade took place earlier this month. Mamdani was the first New York City mayor in decades not to attend.<\/p>\n

Two weeks prior, Mamdani attended an event recognizing the Nakba; the catastrophe<\/em> in Arabic, the Nakba refers to the violent expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland following the establishment of the state of Israel. <\/p>\n

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Mamdani also explained why he wouldn\u2019t attend the Israel Day Parade before it took place, stating that it was a promise he had made during his mayoral campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said on the campaign trail that I wouldn\u2019t be attending the parade, and I\u2019ve made my views on the Israeli government abundantly clear,\u201d Mamdani said. <\/p>\n

While many have welcomed Mamdani\u2019s views, others say he has to go further, calling for him to disrupt material support in New York City for Israel\u2019s violent occupation and displacement of Palestinians.<\/p>\n

In January, Nerdeen Kiswani, a Palestinian American organizer based in New York City, published an op-ed in Mondoweiss <\/em>demanding that Mamdani do just that, describing the city as a \u201chub\u201d for fundraising that goes to charities \u201cthat support Israeli settlement activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMamdani was elected on the power of a movement energized by his rhetoric on Palestine prior to and during the campaign, but we have seen him back away from other positions he took before the election,\u201d Kiswani wrote.<\/p>\n

Kiswani added:<\/p>\n

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New York City has the legal tools to act today, and acting is not a favor, it is a minimum standard of justice and accountability. Choosing silence or symbolic gestures while Palestinians are killed, homes are seized, and communities are erased is not a neutral position, it is complicity. Mayor Mamdani can intervene immediately.<\/p>\n

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