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NYPD boss Jessica Tisch’s brother calls Zohran Mamdani ‘enemy’ of Jewish people in speech (nypost.com)

submitted 1 month ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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The brother of the Big Apple’s top cop called mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani an “enemy” of Jewish people during a fiery charity dinner speech where he railed about the future of the city.

Benjamin Tisch — younger brother of police Commissioner Jessica Tisch — was presenting an award Wednesday evening during the Met Council’s annual holiday dinner when the top exec at the Loews Corporation skewered the radical DSA lawmaker, according to sources.

The comments come just weeks after Jessica Tisch accepted an offer from the Mamdani to stay on as police commissioner — despite being far apart on a number of issues, including bail reform, raise the age and Israel.

The Tisch family, excluding Jessica, spent millions during the mayoral election to back Mamdani’s top foe, Andrew Cuomo, in an attempt to stave off the socialist mayor.

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[–] BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It seems you are right on this, I tried to see if other news papers reported on it and didn't find much except some that seem based on the NY Post article. It's actually surprising because usually it seems NY Post is not original reporting, they just add a right wing spin to stories already reported by more reputable news source.

The reason most other papers are not reporting on it is because it's just the opinion of someone who's not an elected official. He has no expertise on antisemtism or any credentials that I could find that make his opinion worthy of being reported (unless you count him being a CEO, I don't think that counts but for a right-wing audience that matters more). What Murdoch papers do is structure their stories in a way that results in people especially those who don't read closely to understand the story in a different way than if you read closely or to react in an emotional way. For example some people will glaze past the fact that it's her brother and think that it was Jessica Tisch who said that. In addition for people who already don't like Mamdani this story will stroke their ego and give them more confirmation bias and help enrich Murdoch a little bit through ad revenue.

By the way: they now have another article titled " NYPD boss Jessica Tisch apologizes to Mamdani after her brother calls him ‘enemy’ of Jewish people " https://archive.ph/vuLlj.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

NYpost has a weird thing going on where they ocasionally report on Israel news in a brutally honest way. Maybe they think it appeals to Zionists because Zionists would see this as a win, maybe they're actually critical of Israel (99% certain it's the first). This title on their front page today is a prime example of something that sounds great to right-wingers but not so great to anyone else.

I occasionally come accross these kinds of bold claims on social media and do a quick check for an article. Lo and behold usually it's only right-wing rags reporting them. Which is strange because I'd expect this kind of a title from left wing media but they don't seem to care.

[–] BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right, sometimes the actual articles aren't so bad. Just be sure to always use an ad-blocker whenever you visit those websites so you're not giving them your money or if you have ads enabled take note of who's advertising and contact them and ask them to stop advertising on NY Post or other right-wing rags. For websites using Google Adwords see: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2454012 and for Facebook see: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/255483958155378. By the way I found out about this method from Stop Funding Hate. Maybe if you find this interesting you can follow https://bsky.app/profile/stopfundinghate.bsky.social. They are focused on the UK but it's a good model for how to do this kind of thing.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

No worries my uBlock Origin is always on