Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! Right-wing lawmakers and commentators have responded to New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s landmark win on Tuesday with blatantly Islamophobic and xenophobic hatred, inciting violence against the left-wing politician who was already recently subject to a hate-related death threat. Mamdani,...
Let’s recap. We’ve had twenty months of radical intimidation campaigns targeting Jews on college campuses in the US. In recent weeks, the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania got firebombed out of the state’s mansion. An assassin executed two Israeli embassy employees and injured several others outside of a Jewish museum in Washington DC. And last week,...