Mamdani's tweet is propaganda, not history. It's hard to know where...
Oren Kessler@OrenKessler
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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.
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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"
