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this will really piss off a bunch of white redneck evangelicals that use israel to validate their death wish on society
Who don't live in, have never been to, and are to scared to visit the city.
And likely have some not very nice things to say about the Jewish people.
Good, im proud of him.
Promises made, promises kept.
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
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)
And St Patrick's Day is more of an America and Ireland thing. It's certainly not British.
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"
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.
Mexico day parade
Dude. May was Just Here
British Day parade
Um, hello-oo, 4th of July....
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.
If there is a "Jewish day Parade" I'll be there, but specifically Israel is super problematic; don't know how any sane person can support anymore
I think the funniest part of this is I wandered over to the conservative areas of the internet to see the reaction and they're fighting each other on how to feel about this. They all hate Mamdani, but half are as anti-Israel and "America first" that they're asking why there's an Israel Day parade and screaming at the pro-Israel groups that are mad at Mamdani for not going.
If nothing else, him doing this has given a fun show.
TBF the lunatics have a point - why the fuck is there an Israel day?! Not American so first I've heard of this.
It's just an NYC thing, not American, as they have one of the densest Jewish populations in the US. I'd never heard of it either
Fuck isreal
israel no longer deserves any celebratory recognition. they have overstepped any justification they had in avenging the hamas raid
They were like this as far back as the 1960s. We've always known.
Since its very inception. I.e., the 40s. And before its inception the people that were fighting for even getting Israel off the ground were bombing places, and organizing massacres of civilians.
Independent reporters say there is ample proof the attack was a false-flag. The IDF is full of psychotic assholes, It wouldn't surprise me a bit that they'd kill their own people.
Israel was always a genocidal project, that’s what settler-colonialism is.
Israel can go fuck themselves.
Israel is a uniquely evil entity that has lost its legitimacy as a nation state. Why on Earth would any sane human go to a parade for it?
lost its legitimacy
I'm genuinely curious to know at what point in history you think it had legitimacy.
Israel has no right to exist
Let alone a fucking parade
Israel should be dissolved and returned to the Palestinians. It's Palestine.
The current population of wrongfully placed settlers can fuck off and move somewhere else.
Y'all can figure it out, after all you're the fiercest and most adaptive people in the world, right?
Not to mention you're narcissistic enough to believe you're chosen by God over all other human beings on Earth.
Judaism is a fascinating faith bit Zionism and by extension the entire failed experiment that has been known as Israel is just a disgusting warped off shoot that needs to be extinguished.
As a non new yorker, why is there a israel day parade in the first place?
IIRC there's either more Jews in NYC than in Israel, or it's the place with most jew (except Israel). So it kinda makes sense. Just like there's a lot of Cubans in Miami. They probably have cuba-related parties too.
But judaism =/= zionism. Norman Finkelstein lives in New York. I assure you he also does not attend this parade.
Why is there a fucking Israel Day Parade in NYC?
W h a t t h e f u c k ?
Judaism Day Parade, sure! Israel Day Parade? Fuck that!
Are they celebrating stealing land from and murdering the neighbors?
Yes
FUCK GENOCIDAL FASCIST ISRAEL!
What are you going to tell me about this ANTI SEMITE next? He DOESNT Condone Raping Children? SHAMEFUL!
-NY Times!
ny post and fox news writers pp's just became the big pp with that one.
Having a parade for a country that has allowed itself to become what Israel has become does not make any sense.
He said he couldn't make it to every parade. He should send Curtis in his place.
Based
How soon will someone complaining about "greedy Jews" will call him an antisemite for it?
