Moving focus to Netanyahu is in direct opposition to antizionist messaging that has been coordinated and popularized in the imperial core since 2003. The improved imperial core understanding (such as it is) now includes Israel as a genocidal settler colonial project with decades of history doing settler colonialism, apartheid, genocide, child murder. And often an understanding that the settler culture there is popular and horrific. In contrast, Zionist liberals, including actual Israeli settler liberals, try to focus on Netanyahu for simply being deficient in his execution of the project, whether that’s from an angle of wanting more domination / less blowback (Israeli liberals) or Mamdani’s angle of pinning genocide on that one guy.
Mamdani is fully aware of this discourse and it’s intentionally moderating his language to play liberals’ game of downplaying Zionism itself as inherently violent, genocidal, settler colonial.
Moving focus to Netanyahu is in direct opposition to antizionist messaging that has been coordinated and popularized in the imperial core since 2003. The improved imperial core understanding (such as it is) now includes Israel as a genocidal settler colonial project with decades of history doing settler colonialism, apartheid, genocide, child murder. And often an understanding that the settler culture there is popular and horrific. In contrast, Zionist liberals, including actual Israeli settler liberals, try to focus on Netanyahu for simply being deficient in his execution of the project, whether that’s from an angle of wanting more domination / less blowback (Israeli liberals) or Mamdani’s angle of pinning genocide on that one guy.
Mamdani is fully aware of this discourse and it’s intentionally moderating his language to play liberals’ game of downplaying Zionism itself as inherently violent, genocidal, settler colonial.
AIPAC is explicitly pro-genocide according to the quote in OP.
i think you’re vastly overestimating the functional literacy of the public.
It’s not really literacy…