Foreign ministry says mayor has poured ‘antisemitic gasoline on an open fire’ by scrapping IHRA definition

Israel’s foreign ministry has accused the New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of pouring “antisemitic gasoline on an open fire” after he reversed a recent order by the outgoing mayor, Eric Adams.

“On his very first day as @NYCMayor, Mamdani shows his true face: he scraps the IHRA definition of antisemitism and lifts restrictions on boycotting Israel. This isn’t leadership. It’s antisemitic gasoline on an open fire,” the foreign ministry said in a post on X.

Mamdani revoked an Adams-era order that adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, which the previous administration said included “demonizing Israel and holding it to double standards as forms of contemporary antisemitism”.

Israel’s response came hours after Mamdani issued an order to rescind all executive orders that Adams issued after he was indicted on federal corruption charges in 2024 – charges that were later, controversially, dropped.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The Guardian has been massively pro-Israel for most of their Genocide in Gaza and even now that they toned down the very overt support for it, still uses two-tiered language when it comes to Israel and Palestinians, such as using “says” or “states” for statements from the former whilst for the latter using “claims”, reporting on deaths by saying that Israelis “were killed” whilst Palestinians merely “died”, describing attacks on civilians as “terrorism” if done by Hamas but not if done by Israel and, more generally, using the kind of language towards Israel that produces the impression of them being “righteous” and “one of us” whilst for Palestinians languages that dehumanizes them and/or produces the impression of them being “criminals” and “not one of us”.

    Further, The Guardian is pretty much “The Voice Of The English Upper and Upper Middle Class”, who are definitely people siding with American fatcats same as they side with their own fatcats and with pretty much the entire elite privilege-preserving infrastructure over there (their coverage of The Royals is the very definition of “fawning”).

    They’re basically the British equivalent of the New York Times.

    So yeah, it’s absolutely logical to suspect that The Guardian are purposefully “amplifying their messages” because that’s something entirely consistent with how they’ve always treated Israel.