Mamdani delivered a St. Patrick’s Day message – about the Palestinians
Of course he did (my emphasis):
“Who can better understand those who weep than those who have been made to weep for so long?” asked Mamdani, referencing his view of the Irish experience in America and comparing it to the plight of the Palestinians.
“The story of the Irish, both in Ireland and in New York City, is at one time a story of oppression, of subjugation, and of discrimination,” the mayor told attendees at the traditional St. Patrick’s Day breakfast at Gracie Mansion.
The special guest of the Mayor at the breakfast was Mary Robinson, former Irish president and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “Her solidarity is many things: unwavering, sincere, and chief among them Irish,” gushed Mamdani. …
“I say this as over the past few years, as we’ve witnessed a genocide unfold before our eyes, there has been deafening silence from so many,” Mamdani said. “For those who have long cared about universal human rights and the extension of them to Palestinians, silence, however, is nothing new – for Palestinians are so often left to weep alone. Yet former President Robinson has never been silent.”
Robinson has been one of the most controversial High Commissioners for Human Rights in recent memory. She is frequently accused of a disproportionate focus on Israel’s actions while remaining relatively “silent” on human rights abuses by other regimes or Palestinian militant groups. Critics argue she often creates a false equivalence between the actions of a democratic state’s military and the tactics of terrorist organizations like Hamas.
Talk about “disproportionate focus on Israel’s actions” – plus distorted lies about them. Mamdani himself fits the description quite well. Among other things – such as his oft-repeated lie that it is Israel committing genocide when in fact it is Israelis who have been the target of Hamas’ desire for genocide against them – do the Palestinians “weep alone”? I don’t think there’s a people on earth with more MSM coverage for their weeping. The Palestinian people are not very good at many things other than hatred and violence, but propaganda is most definitely one of them.
However, Mamdani wasn’t completely out of line mentioning the Palestinians at the St. Patrick’s Day event, because these days Ireland is one of the most anti-Israel countries in the Western world. I wrote a post about it two years ago entitled, “Why Ireland hates Israel.”
And speaking of people who have wept for so long, there’s this:
Considering that Islam has been an oppressive imperialist force for 1400 years, Mamdani has a lot of nerve to pose as a “victim.”
My people have done quite well for themselves since coming here from Ireland, thank you very much.
We got out while the gettin’ was good. Maybe it didn’t seem so at the time, but that soon changed.
I used to visit Ireland frequently. Now I have no desire to go. Maybe I never will again. But that’s okay, Ireland isn’t really Ireland anymore; or, if it is, it’s getting less so every day.
I’m still pondering whether I should change my internet handle. My [fading] reluctance to do so is attributable largely to the fact that my Otter (Luttrell) ancestors were Normans (i.e. Danish Vikings) who “migrated” (wearing mail hauberks and wielding great longswords) to eastern Ireland several centuries ago. I imagine they are rolling in their graves over what Eire has become.
As they used to say about themselves: “Hiberniores Hibernis ipsis.” More so now than ever, sadly.
And I just thought of another reason for the Irish to abhor Islam. Many, many Irish were captured and taken into slavery in north Africa by Muslim Barbary pirates. Irish women were particularly prized as sex slaves.
I’ve sure had a bellyful of Muslims whining about how badly they’ve been treated, while they are one of the most violent and cruel ideologies in history.
Both law and the guises and poses of the professional-managerial class promote obnoxious behavior by minorities of various sorts. Muslims may have the worst disposition of any confessional or ethnic minority imaginable in this regard.
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Restoring freedom of contract and association is imperative.
Kate, girls with red hair and green eyes were especially prized by the slavers.
Islam has the right to conquer the world. Therefore, the real victim is the Muslims who are opposed in this right.
The West’s first mistake was allowing Muslims in. Every country that has done this has had to fight them, exile them or get conquered by them. The West:
“If we stick this fork in the outlet it will be different for us.”
leftisms might be the vector we should be concerned with,
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/03/20/three-victims-of-ira-bombings-drop-civil-action-in-london-court-against-gerry-adams/
I know this concerns Northern Ireland, but it is of a piece with the Politics on the Emerald Isle,
Mamdani is from Uganda, which expelled his people, and they have been taken back under Yuseveni,
but they seem to be on the same keel, with the late dictator who came to rest in Mecca,
“The West’s first mistake was allowing Muslims in”. Richard Cook
The first mistake of those Muslims that seek to impose sharia upon the West was in coming to the West. Islam is pursuing a terrible reckoning, though in fairness, evil is incapable of even live and let live. Worldwide, 50,000+ terrorist attacks, just since 9/11 remove all doubt as to the constitution of its nature.
Not many songs hit the American pop radio commemorating events in the 6th century B.C. That’s a great one.
That’s very interesting. I have an acquaintance who is a loud-and-proud descendant of Irish immigrants who is also openly anti-Israel and shares posts comparing the historical plights of the Irish to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. It seemed bizarre to me but I guess it’s a more common viewpoint than I thought.
Geoffrey Britain
Not wishing to be contentious, but, will we even fight? Do people even know what they are fighting for? Not sharia is not enough. John Adams wrote that the Constitution was written for a moral and religious people. Since the foundation of the liberties we enjoy is God, if there is no belief in general, will people fight for something they don’t believe?
I have experience in Muslim countries. I don’t know if we have the ability to fight Islam at the level they fight. If we think we can fight Islam from within the bounds of our own system I think we are making a big mistake.
“comparing it to the plight of the Palestinians.”
As I have pointed out, there has never been a country called Palestine, it is an imaginary country like Wakanda, and the Palestinians are the imaginary citizens. Whenever somebody starts opining about Palestine, I ask myself, Fool or Knave?
What is especially obnoxious – and we see this repeated many times – is when people gather for Purpose I and activist(s) co-opt the event to make it about Cause P.
“We’re here to celebrate the Irish who came to this nation”.
Let’s make this about the Palestinian cause. Which is really about the cause of Islam forcibly taking over the world.