Zohran Mamdani’s win wasn’t the only race last week or even in the past few years where pro-Israel money and arguments failed. The Israel lobby’s power rests on appearing more fearsome than it actually is.
  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    4·
    10 days ago

    Let’s be real here. Money is speech, de facto, regardless of laws, especially if the law says so, and corporations are legally people. But yes, with a winning message that motivates the downtrodden, it can be overcome.

  • some_guyEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    The Super PAC they funded, Fix the City, spent more than $22 million on the mayoral race and the mayoral race only. It ended up being responsible for effectively half (49.5 percent) of all the outside spending in every single race, in a year with dozens of candidates and all fifty-one city council seats on the ballot. Another pro-Israel super PAC, Sensible City, Inc., spent more than $100,000 opposing Zohran Mamdani. All told, pro-Cuomo forces raised a staggering combined total of $35 million, making the pro-Mamdani side’s $9 million look measly.

    It’s disgusting that we allow this political corruption, but we do.

  • AltMediaGuy@altmedia.houseOPM
    2·
    10 days ago

    More info on Cuomo’s behavior: in 2023 he declared it was “time for the Shabbos Goy” at an event hosted by Rabbi Schmuley Boteach. He was announcing that he was starting a Democrat political group completely devoted to Israel, as part of a scheme to come back into politics after his sexual harassment scandals. More from Forward:

    https://forward.com/news/539829/shabbos-goy-andrew-cuomo-israel-democratic-antisemitism/