Wall Street Journal opens fire: Zohran Mamdani got tangled up — "Hamas disappeared"

The Wall Street Journal attacks Congressman Zohran Mamdani following his speech on the third anniversary of the October 7 massacre. The newspaper accuses him of omitting Hamas from the picture, presenting Gaza casualty figures without mentioning that at least 25,000 of them were militants, and attempting to provide "context" to the events while blaming Israel. The article warns of rising anti-Semitism in the West.

The Wall Street Journal published a scathing op-ed against U.S. Congressman Zohran Mamdani, following his speech on the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 massacre. The newspaper accuses Mamdani of deliberately omitting Hamas from the narrative, while presenting casualty figures from the Gaza Strip, provided by Hamas, as if all the dead were civilians. The article emphasizes that at least 25,000 of the dead were militants, and that Israel waged a war with a civilian-to-combatant casualty ratio within the historical precedents of urban warfare. It also criticizes Mamdani for failing to mention Hamas's activity from hospitals, schools, and mosques, and the military tunnel network beneath the Strip's cities. The newspaper also addresses Mamdani's statement that "the suffering did not begin or end on that day," interpreting it as an attempt to blame Israel for the October 7 events as well. The article notes that Mamdani's party, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), promoted a rally in support concurrent with the massacre, and that the party's youth wing approved a protest on the anniversary under the slogan "Glory to the martyrs, victory to the resistance." It further references protests on U.S. and UK campuses where demonstrators praised the massacre and called for an "intifada" in London. The article concludes that the anti-Semitism unleashed three years ago is still present in the West, and defeating it remains the duty of the free world.