An Indian Muslim breaching the iron dome of the power elites

It is quite clear that the result of the mayoral election held in New York a few days ago, in the city at the center of the world economy, its media and indeed its system, does not remain confined to the borders of this city.

More importantly, these results did not emerge independently of the effects of developments elsewhere in the world.

The magical dialectic of globalization has confronted the global order with an entirely unexpected outcome. Without doubt, these results also herald many far more interesting developments. Let us keep watching the world; there is no telling what else will happen.

Zohran Mamdani reached this result in a context far outside the classical political competition of the United States, with a very different campaign. Throughout the election campaign he fought a system in which the Trumpist right, the Zionist lobby, and financial and media barons are intertwined.

He worked against the present-day oligarchy of the power elites that the famous American sociologist C. Wright Mills spoke of as having blocked American politics. This bloc possesses an impenetrability reminiscent of the famous Iron Dome defense over the skies of the genocidal, occupying Israel. Mamdani pierced this iron dome straight through.

With this electoral victory he has, as it were, repeated against the Zionist lobbies in New York the success of October 7, when Israel's legendary defense lines were pierced.

AN AWAKENING OF CONSCIENCE AGAINST THE ZIONISTS IN THE US ELECTIONS

That Mamdani's electoral success is seen as something like a repetition of October 7 is partly a consequence of the outlook of Trump and of Zionist circles. From the very beginning of the campaign they tried to identify him with Hamas and with anti-Semitism. Mamdani never entered into a defense against this view. On the contrary, he did not hesitate to call the bluff of this identification by saying that Netanyahu should be arrested for the war crimes he has committed should he set foot in New York.

The debate over whether, as a New York mayor, he has the authority to arrest Netanyahu is, in this context, an unnecessary and inappropriate one. What matters is his answer to that debate. While all the other candidates declared that, if elected, their first visit would be to Israel, his saying that he would make no such visit would have counted as a great revolution in itself. It is a stance that has torn down the wall of fear and bribery, the Zionist discourse and conventions in whose hostage American politics has been held until now.

For many years in the West, especially in the United States, an almost complete identification has been established between criticizing Israel's policies and being "anti-Semitic." This equation has created a powerful self-censorship over the media, academia and politics. The Zionist lobby had turned the "moral legacy of the Holocaust" into a shield of untouchability: even questioning Israel's occupation policies could be branded as "hate speech."

What Mamdani did was precisely to pierce this shield without fear. He carried the Palestinian flag at his rallies, spoke of Gaza as a humanitarian issue, held Netanyahu responsible for war crimes, and at the end of the day the voters, instead of punishing him, rewarded him precisely for this stance. This is a sign that criticism of Israel in America has begun to become a legitimate position of conscience.

THE NORMALIZATION OF CRITICISM OF ZIONISM

Thus Mamdani's victory is not limited to the election of his own person; it also shows that an entirely new horizon has opened in American political culture, and this heralds a change whose effects we will see far more deeply in the coming years. The normalization of criticism of Zionism, and the demonstration that politics can be done without bribing Zionism or submitting to it, was not even something that could have been imagined. Trump had in fact noticed this and said so.

Behind the "normalization of criticism of Zionism" lies a powerful generational change. Young Americans, especially those of immigrant origin, Black people, Hispanics and white leftists at universities, no longer see the Palestinian question as "someone else's conflict" but as an extension of the struggle for justice and equality.

The consciousness of racial justice that began with the Black Lives Matter movement responds with the same sensitivity to the deaths in Gaza. Mamdani's language coincides with the language of this generation: for them, saying "justice for Palestine" means saying "justice for humanity." Thus criticism of Zionism evolves from an identity conflict into moral solidarity.

In the past, the mainstream media reproduced Israel's narrative in a single voice. Today, thanks to social media, independent journalists and diasporic voices, the flow of information has left its single center. Mamdani's success is also a product of these channels. He addressed not CNN or the New York Times but the public directly. This means "the breaking of the lobbies' domination over the media." Reality is now measured not by funds but by the conscience of followers.

We can in fact see this event as the repetition in the United States of an event that showed itself in the context of Gaza. The great majority of social media algorithms, most of them programmed to be pro-Israel, could not escape becoming instruments for reflecting an anti-Israel reality in the face of the resistance in Gaza. Although these social media platforms have now entered, in great haste, into a race to make confession against Israel, what is done is done; they have been unable to hide the facts and to conceal the Zionist monstrosity.

THE EFFECT OF THE AL-AQSA FLOOD IN THE NEW YORK ELECTIONS

YouTube, for instance, has these days fallen into a rush to delete videos showing Israeli savagery in Gaza, but these videos have been seen as much as they were going to be seen. Mamdani, for his part, built his own communication balance against the media that had organized against him and tried to knock him out with the classical balance of "fear and power," and tied it to a formula that will go down in history: "Fear is no longer the weapon of the power elites."

It will not be possible to keep the rotten order going by frightening people with the immigrant, with Islam, with the Muslim, with enmity toward Jews!

The New York elections were the most concrete voice of public opinion in the US, which has begun to change against Israel especially after the genocide in Gaza. However you look at it, this change is a result of the Al-Aqsa Flood. The waves of the Al-Aqsa Flood, rising at the center of the world order against high mountains of money and political walls of intimidation and defense, swallowed the arrogant faces who were trying to flee. The Flood continues to rise; what else will it swallow?