Minaal Zahid, DO 🧬

Too many people are willing to sell out Palestine for small perks, whether it is appearances, access, or whatever promises Zohran Mamdani makes. That became clear yesterday. On October 7, while Within Our Lifetime, a Palestinian-led organization in NYC, led thousands in the streets protesting genocide, Zohran attended an Israeli rally for hostages instead. He ignored and undermined our rally. At the same time, officials from the administration he says he will “fight back against” were openly inciting against our community because of this rally. Laura Loomer, a far-right activist, called for FBI raids. Stephen Miller, current Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor in the Trump administration, demanded green cards be revoked. Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, and other politicians called for deportation, imprisonment, and retaliation against Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims who speak out. Leo Terrell, head of the DOJ’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, amplified this by tagging Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, and Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State. All of them were signaling alignment with this wave of incitement. Through all of this, Zohran has said nothing. Not one word defending Palestinians, not a single statement condemning this racist incitement. If he cannot speak up when our communities are being targeted for organizing, what does it mean to call him a “pro-Palestine” mayor? Instead of standing with Within Our Lifetime, the Palestinian-led movement confronting genocide, he sided with those spreading propaganda that justifies it.

zohran got the party nomination, omar was stripped of the party nomination after winning thx to the mayor & his team of well connected donors that had a fit including lisa goodman who threatened to withhold funding if the party didn't reverse endorsement

The Green Party's @DrJillStein on Zohran's win: "I've spent decades learning not to hold my breath, & I'm still not holding my breath. I think what's hopeful here is that [Zohran] really has a supercharged base, & the hope is that that base will continue to hold his feet to the fire so that he's not going to retrench. I was heartened....But I didn't hear him reference Palestine or Israel...It was mostly a very domestic focused victory speech, & that's kind of understandable, that's usually par for the course, but it does mean that we don't want to say, oh, it's all OK now, we can relax." VIDEO PREMIERE NOW‼️youtube.com/watch?v=ATQgRJ…

so fucking sad that Omar Fateh didn't have the same presence as Zohran but a black Muslim socialist getting 31.7% is still something to be celebrated.

I’m just an American citizen who is tired of living under Zionist occupation and would like the NYPD to not have a Tel Aviv office that tells Americans living in New York City what they can and cannot say. Apparently this is too much to ask

Since the ceasefire talks, 38 donors cancelled their monthly subscription. The genocide didn’t end and Palestinians in Gaza still need our material support. Can we get a new 38 people to subscribe monthly? Link: chuffed.org/project/113222…

This whole conversation shows how, when it comes to practicing Muslims, people on both sides of the political spectrum often end up showing the same Orientalism and racism. I remember during the Battle of Saif Al-Quds in 2021, when Westerners online said they were “uncomfortable” hearing Muslims chant “Allahu Akbar” at rallies. That discomfort wasn’t random; it showed a deeper unease with Islam showing up in public life. Then two years later, on October 7, the whole world saw that Islam sits at the heart of Gaza’s resistance and steadfastness. Even in the early weeks after October 7, when a video came out of a Palestinian woman being rescued from the rubble, the conversation online became about “the misogyny of Gazan men,” all because one of them took off his shirt to cover her head when she tried to hide her hair. That mindset isn’t solidarity. It drags down every real movement for liberation with its own cultural hangups. These people are anvils, not allies. Do not let them co-opt our cause or water it down to fit their politics.

You guys know Zohran literally hired Zara Rahim and Jeffrey Lerner from Obama’s reelection campaign, as well as Penelope Birnbaum from Kamala’s campaign right like he’s not an outsider he’s running in the same circles as these people

“Free Palestine” a winning message in New York. This win belongs to the organizers and communities who refused to compromise. That’s people power, not party politics. The people’s rejection of Zionism has to become an organized force.

Drop your favorite Zionist crash outs from the Mamdani fallout. Watching them realize their ideology is crumbling in real time is honestly the best part.

BDS is the floor of anti-Zionism, which means it must be the minimum demand on a Mamdani administration—ending all municipal level relationships with Israel and full divestment. This is both reasonable and possible

Now that Zohran won, can we finally talk about how his capitulation to Zionist talking points shouldn’t be normalized or encouraged in our movements? Winning an election doesn’t make those concessions any less harmful.

It's extremely bleak that the right is more in opposition to their politicians allegiance with Israel than supposed leftist who are redefining Zionism to justify their politicians building coalitions with fascist.

Yesterday, November 2nd (Balfour Day), two pro-Palestine prisoners, Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib, began a hunger strike inside British prisons. @Prisoners4Pal Today, Heba Muraisi joined them, marking the first rolling hunger strike in a British prison in decades. Qesser has been held since November 2024 over the alleged Elbit Systems raid in Bristol, Amu since July 2025 for actions at RAF Brize Norton opposing weapons transfers to Gaza genocide, and Heba for allegedly damaging Israel’s largest weapons producer. None have stood trial. Since the government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, mistreatment has intensified. Restrictions on communication, confiscation of personal items, and repeated solitary confinement. The hunger strikers are demanding bail, the right to a fair trial, access to mail and for Palestine Action to be deproscribed.

Mr. Mamdani, we need to have a conversation.

Nancy Pelosi is leaving Congress $240 million richer while the majority of the country can’t afford housing and groceries. She didn’t serve anyone except her rich donors and her own bank account.

This needs to happen on day one.