I want to be very clear, we're talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis. More than a thousand Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire. Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike, and when I am speaking about AIPAC I'm speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to not just in Palestine, but frankly, for much of the region, and, it is a status quo for immorality, it is one that I will not accept, and when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions, as we are seeing right now, in New York 13. Oftentimes they also support the status quo through dark money, by filtering money that would have previously been directly from AIPAC, now through other shell organizations whose identities of their contributors are only made clear after an election. And I think that it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas we also name those who allow it to take place. 

Zohran Mamdani, 

Mayor of New York City

Thank god someone in politics is confronting AIPAC and speaking out against the genocide in Palestine.