Zohran Mamdani, the young American politician of Indian origin, skyrocketed to fame and glory by making videos in which he talked about issues that were important to the American people and to New Yorkers especially. Mamdani raised voice against the issues of rising rent, expensive bus fares, taxi drivers being exploited and so forth. In short, he captured the imagination of the average New Yorkers, the general people that call New York home. People love him. And his catapult to power is a vivid testament to that.

There is an unwritten code within the American political, journalistic, and even Hollywood world that criticism of Israel is to be avoided. This is a virtual law that even imams and general people that frequent the mosques in America also adhere to very religiously. They may, just may, talk about Gaza and the genocide but that is as far as they can go. I go to the mosque and in Friday service, I desperately wait to hear one phrase that Israel is........

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