@OrenKessler: Mamdani's tweet is propaganda,...
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May 20, 2026
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Mamdani's tweet is propaganda, not history. It's hard to know where to begin.
Perhaps by noting (again) that the "Visit Palestine" poster so beloved of Mamdani's Dismantle-Israel crowd was created by Franz Kraus, an Austrian-Jewish refugee from Hitler, in 1936. Here In Tel Aviv.
Perhaps by noting (again) that the "Visit Palestine" poster so beloved of Mamdani's Dismantle-Israel crowd was created by Franz Kraus, an Austrian-Jewish refugee from Hitler, in 1936. Here In Tel Aviv.
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More about Franz Kraus:
Born 1910 in Graz, Austria; died 1998 in Tel Aviv.
Arrived in Mandate Palestine from Berlin in 1934, a year after Hitler's rise.
His brother Otto was killed by Nazis
(actual Nazis, not your local Hillel chapter)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kra…
Born 1910 in Graz, Austria; died 1998 in Tel Aviv.
Arrived in Mandate Palestine from Berlin in 1934, a year after Hitler's rise.
His brother Otto was killed by Nazis
(actual Nazis, not your local Hillel chapter)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kra…
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Other posters by Franz Kraus.
Something tells me Mamdani won't be tweeting these:
Something tells me Mamdani won't be tweeting these:
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@NYCMayor As to Mamdani’s central accusation — the “expulsion of more than 700,00 Palestinians” — see this thread from a couple of years ago:
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@NYCMayor Mamdani’s video refers to “dozens of massacres” by “Zionist militias.”
It may feel good and righteous, but it’s not history.
It may feel good and righteous, but it’s not history.
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As I wrote:
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And as I wrote:
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And if you won’t take my word that this is a tendentious, propagandistic gloss on a complex history, take Simon’s:
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… or Simon’s:
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Side note: despite the current obsession with "indigeneity," the woman in the video is Inea Bushnaq, part of the Bosnian-Muslim community that quite literally *settled* in Ottoman Palestine in the 1880s – the same time as the first Jewish settlers. Bushnaq is Arabic for "Bosniak"
