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Zohran Derangement Syndrome
NYC’s right-wing rags go full racist. Plus: Farmers pull a fast one; the human toll of deportation.
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by Matthew Hennessey arguing that Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, has enabled or signaled tolerance for anti-Semitism, despite his repeated condemnations of anti-Semitic hate. It was—unfortunately, predictably—laden with a casual Islamophobia that I, as a Middle Eastern American, have come to expect. Hennessey calls Mamdani a “zealot” and describes him as “a rabble-rouser in a kaffiyeh.”
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