The Jewish leaders urged the host of the Al -Hawari program late at night, Stephen Colib, to marry the candidate of the Democratic Socialism Mayor Zahran Mamdani to refuse to condemn the phrase “uprising globalization” and other opposing opinions of Israel.
Mamdani and his colleague, municipal candidate Brad Lander, were appointed to obtain the treatment of stars in “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Monday night – on the eve of the democratic elementary elections.
But in a letter sent to Colbert early on Monday, activists called on the dialogue programs for the lack of treatment of Mamdani and Lander, the current city observer, with gloves for children, pointing to his broadcast in New York, who has the largest number of Jewish population outside Israel.
“About two years ago, since the October 7 2023 massacre, our society has faced a terrifying wave of high anti -Semitism, fear of our safety and future in most of the Jews in cities,” says the message, which the position obtained.
“Over the past few days, Mr. Mamdani has repeatedly refused to condemn calls to” the globalization of the uprising, “a incendiary language he made publicly for a period of no less than a decade.
“For the Jews and most of the prevailing authorities, this is a catalyst for violence against the Jews, referring directly to two waves of violence from the late eighties to the beginning of the millennium in which nearly a thousand Jews were killed because of the terrorist bombings in cafes, nightclubs, and buses.”
The message was signed by Elisha Wizel, the son of the late Holocaust survivors, and Elie Wizel, the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
“I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.”.
Other signatories included: former President of the Anti -District Association, Abraham Fox, President of the American Jewish Conference Daniel Rosen and Andres Spokoini, President and CEO of the Jewish financiers.
The signing of Dove Honij, founder and director of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, Rabbi Yakov Berman from the Jewish Alliance in the future, Rabbi Steinmetz of the Kihath Jeshoron group, Daniel Sherman from the western side, and the Benius dirty from Saar Academy.
Jewish rights defenders told Kolbert that Mamdani, as a young rapper, “glorified and” has sent “to the so -called fifth Holy Land, five individuals convicted of the courts of transferring at least $ 12 million to Hamas, a dedicated terrorist organization responsible for hundreds of attacks on Israel, including October 7, central.
“We invite you to severely without any unconfirmed conditions for the question of Mr. Mamdani about his use of the term globalization to the uprising” and its use for the year 2015 for the phrase on the horizon of the third intifada, “and his praise for the five sacred land,” says the message.
“To fail to do this as you provide him with a platform to promote his candidacy, it will be a serious mistake and insult to millions of Jewish Americans.”
Activists wrote that Colbert should not allow Lander, a Jew, outside the hook. Mamdani and Lander intersected with each other in the preliminary elections to vote on the option on Tuesday.
Lander said that “the globalization of the uprising” means calling for a “open season for the Jews”, but it still supports Mamdani.
Mamdani, during an interview on Monday morning on “The Brian Lehrir Show”, once again refused to condemn the hostility of Israel, which gathered the crying “the globalization of the intifada”-saying that he was not his job to be the language police, although it is not a phrase it uses.
He said that the slogan has “a variety of meanings for a variety of people,” adding, “This is not a language I use.”
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“I don't think the mayor's position is to be the police language in a way that we see at this moment,” said Mamdani, the first Islamic candidate for New York City.
A member of the Queens Association said that he understands the concerns and concerns of the Jewish population of New York and pledged to secure their safety, if they are elected, because there is a “real crisis of anti -Semitism.”
