Zohran Mamdani on AIPAC:
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, who 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 people not just in Palestine, but frankly through 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.