"The importance for me of international solidarity is that it takes me out of the American political landscape that reminds me just how tame some of the things are that I'm actually calling for. And it reminds me of the necessity of grounding ourselves in the struggles as opposed to the fights around the struggles. For anyone to care about these issues, we have to make them [inaudible], he continued."
"We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF. We are in a country where those connections abound. Especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here, added Mamdani."
Zohran Mamdani framed international solidarity as a way to expand political perspective and ground activism in global struggles rather than peripheral fights. He argued that local policing practices and Israeli military actions are connected, stating that NYPD violence has been "laced by the IDF" and urging New Yorkers to expose links between overseas struggles and capitalist interests. Mamdani previously supported Defund the Police and tweeted "Nature is healing" about a 2020 video of a cop crying. He has faced criticism for reluctance to explicitly condemn Hamas after October 7 and for statements critics say minimized Hamas while focusing criticism on Israel, including a pledge to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits New York.
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