Mamdani: ‘We Have to Make Clear that When the Boot of the NYPD Is on Your Neck, It’s Been Laced by the IDF’

MAMDANI: “The works, for me, of international solidarity is that it takes me out of the American political landscape and it reminds me of just how tame some of the things are that I’m actually calling for, and it reminds me of the necessity of grounding ourselves in the struggles as opposed to the fights around the struggles. For anyone to care about these issues, we have to make them [inaudible]. We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF. We’re in a country where those connections abound, especially in New York City. You have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here.”