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Mamdani breaks with longstanding NYC mayoral tradition in skipping Israel Day parade
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I never knew of the existence of an "Isreal Day" parade. Is there any other country focused parades out there? I don't recall there being a British Day parade or Mexico day parade.
NYC loves its parades. There's the Puerto Rican day parade for one, that one is pretty big. I wouldn't look too much into that aspect of it.
Of course, fuck Israel nevertheless
Edit: there's so many that Futurama made a joke about it
Not sure that compares since Puerto Rico is an American territory.
NYC has huge populations of both, plus just about every other cultural or ethnic group you can imagine
There’s also St Patrick’s for Irish, and some Italian festivals, lgbtq parades, police parades (actually I think that overlaps with St Patrick’s).
When you live in tiny apartments, almost any excuse to be outside is welcome.
It compares if you look at the US as an Israeli territory.
so is Israel /j
Most people only know about Puerto Rican day from the episode of Seinfeld that aired exactly once before being pulled for desecrating the island's flag.
So does New Orleans and we don't have an Israeli parade to my knowledge
Sure, but does New Orleans have a large jewish population? NYC historically does, so it's no surprise there is influence. Israel can burn imo but I'm not shocked that somewhere with a high percentage of jewish people would have a parade in support of Israel, especially considering the work Israel does to push the connection between judaism and Israel.
Large enough that the lefties were split on Palestine and the local narrative was that wearing a Palestinian flag at a protest was tantamount to being anti semitic. But i doubt we have a huge population.
St. Patrick's Day? Cinco de Mayo?
I get it that the situation with Israel is different, because the Jewish diaspora ≠ Israeli diaspora, and the state of Israel has an undue and disproportionate influence over US politics due to AIPAC, lobbying, and dual citizens in Congress.
And that's all without even mentioning the unmitigated war crimes of the settler-colonial project that is modern Israel.
But let's not be ignorant. The US does celebrate other nations' and cultures' holidays, to an extent.
Cinco de mayo is purely a United Statesian holiday. Mexicans have no idea what it is. (I guess United Statesians dont either lol, but it is a US holiday.)
Fun history lesson, Cinco de Mayo was first celebrated in the Mexican communities of California. It celebrates the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It was widely popularized by the Chicano movement in the 1950s.
Battle of Puebla Day was and sort of still is a holiday in Mexico, but it's not on any official observances list, but school children do get the day off nationwide, and there's reenactments and parades in Puebla. Widespread celebration fell off after the dictator who was fond of the holiday was deposed in 1911.
More fun history, the French won the Second Battle of Puebla a year later and then occupied Mexico City in their attempt to found a new Empire out of Mexico, because Napoleon the 3rd wanted one, but was way too incompetent to war with the rest of Europe. (He did some fighting in the Crimean War, but forgot to bring the artillery, the first Napoleon was an Artillery commander)
The same clown, Napoleon III, declared war against Prussia and got badly spanked. 1870 was a disaster for France.
And St Patrick's Day is more of an America and Ireland thing. It's certainly not British.
I never said it was British. What the fuck?
Op said British Day or Mexican Day parade and you responded with St Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo.
I learned about that (in detail) from a Youtube channel about booze, of all places. It was surprisingly interesting!
Checks out
Neither of those are comparable if you look at the contents of the events...or how they started....or even just the names.
IDO5 isn't a celebration of Israeli culture. Its purpose is to celebrate the country/government. The theme of this parade is "Proud Americans, Proud Zionists"
Wow you ain’t kiddin. https://zoa.org/events/parade/
Pretty weird, right? It's not about something commemorative, it's literally a propaganda parade.
Imagine St. Patrick's Day parades where they push the idea that Ireland should conquer the British isles
I’m listening…
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Yeah, it's not my intent to make what amounts to an ignorant comment. My thought has always been that Cinco de Mayo and St Patrick Day celebrates cultures - not blatently stating that it's a "country" celebration.. The title of this parade, from an outsider looking in, doesn't seem to emphasize the culture, but rather the country.
Around my area, we have the Polish Day Parade. The point to celebrate the Polish culture. In this case, calling it an Isreal Day Parade seems to bring the country as the subject, not the culture and not the Jewish religion.
No it’s true based on a comment above this appears to NOT commemorate any particular historical event but just a thing. https://zoa.org/events/parade/
Thank you for the additional color. I've participated in dozens of parades. This one strikes me as very weird. So, good on Mamdani to sit that one out.
I think its igorant to celebrate a country engaged in war crimes that our government simply fails to acknowledge. How many medical staff have they killed this week alone? But we are having a parade for them? Thats the ignorant thing here.
I never said otherwise. If you just argue on it on those grounds instead of claiming the US doesn't celebrate any other foreign holiday then I think you'll have pretty solid logic.
Dude. May was Just Here
Um, hello-oo, 4th of July....
The 4th is more like Anti-British Day
A daily occurrence around the world I'm sure
There are a ton of parades for one nationality or another in NYC. If you accept one's like St. Patrick's day, which are strongly associated with one country despite not being called the "X Nationality Day Parade," you have the Irish, Scottish, Germans, Dominicans, Panamanians, Japanese and Chinese covered, at least.
Yeah there's a bunch https://loving-newyork.com/new-york-parade/
In the Boston area, yeah, we have a whole bunch of national cultural festivals and parades. St. Patrick's Day is the really big one because of all the Irish, but there's also a lot of Italian and Greek and others.