Why New Yorkâs Mayoral Candidates Are Challenging the Pro-Israel Status Quo
Changes that would have been unthinkable a year ago
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Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang visits Muslim-owned businesses on the first day of Ramadan, in the Jackson Heights area of Queens, New York, April 13, 2021.
The outbreak of violence in Israel and the occupied territories has upended the New York City mayoral election. Toeing a hawkish, pro-Israel line was once the safe choice for New York politicians, but now mainstream Democrats face backlash from progressives for endorsing Israelâs bombing campaign in Gaza.
That reaction, and the ideological and demographic shifts that led to it, may indicate more nuanced stances on Middle East politics from local elected officials in the future. This year, however, the likely winners in the Democratic mayoral primary are sticking with Israelâright or wrong.
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What Happened to IfNotNow?
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ONE FRIDAY AFTERNOON in June 2019, the anti-Israeli-occupation group IfNotNow sent its roughly 2,000 members an unusually candid email. “First and foremost: we owe you all, the leaders and members of IfNotNow, an apology,” it began. Part strategy document, part confessional, the email signed by IfNotNow’s full-time staff responded to discontent that had been brewing for months. IfNotNow had become too hierarchical, many members said, leaving local chapters unsupported while paid national staff pursued projects in which the rank-and-file had little say. The staff email committed the group to a process of teshuva, or repentance, borrowing a Jewish religious concept that requires an offending party to repair, to the degree possible, the damage they have done. But for many disgruntled IfNotNow members, it was too late to fix an organization that had veere