DNC Chairman Ken Martin was recently asked by PBS about New York City communist and Democrat nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani, specifically his comments about ‘globalizing the intifada.’ The reporter pointed out that those sorts of words make Jews very uncomfortable and for good reasons.
Martin basically shrugged off the comments, ultimately declaring that the Democrats are a ‘big tent party.’
This is stunning on multiple levels. Martin is shrugging off a slogan that symbolizes the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews for simply being Jews.
These comments are going to come back to haunt him and his party.
FOX News reported:
Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), dismissed concerns over NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s unwillingness to explicitly condemn the slogan “globalize the intifada,” adding in an interview with PBS that the key to developing a winning coalition is through welcoming people with whom you disagree.
After Mamdani’s monumental upset in the Democratic primary election for New York City mayor over former Governor Andrew Cuomo, he garnered backlash for refusing to condemn a phrase used to describe violent Palestinian uprisings against Israel. The slogan, “globalize the intifada,” has become a rallying cry for anti-Israel protesters in the United States ever since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attacks against hundreds of innocent Israelis.
“There’s no candidate in this party that I agree 100% of the time with, to be honest with you. There are things that I don’t agree with Mamdani that he said, but at the end of the day, I always believe, as a Democratic Party chair in Minnesota for the last 14 years and now the chair of the DNC, that you win through addition,” Martin said during a Wednesday interview with PBS NewsHour.
“You win by bringing people into your coalition. We have conservative-Democrats, we have centrist-Democrats, we have labor-progressives like me, and we have this new brand of Democrat which is the leftists,” Martin continued. “We win by bringing people into that coalition and at the end of the day, for me, that’s the type of party we’re going to lead. We are a big tent party.”
Here’s the video:
WATCH: Asked about Zohran Mamdani’s refusal to condemn the “globalize the intifada” slogan, DNC chair Ken Martin says Democrats are “a big tent party.” pic.twitter.com/ct5bXiFHPl
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Martin is a weak leader and this proves it. If he had any integrity, he would have denounced Mamdani’s comments. Like so many other Democrats, he is terrified of angering the radical left.
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