October 8, 2026

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Mamdani Gets Gloriously Hoisted With His Own Petard By Protesters.

As we reported, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spat on those memories with his statement on the day, which was more about remembering people in Gaza and attacking Israel than remembering the victims and the Oct. 7 attack.

So it was perhaps surprising that he showed up at a Union Square vigil for the victims of the Oct. 7 attack.

Even at such a solemn event, anti-Israel radical activists disrupted it, surrounding the smaller vigil crowd. The activists even tried to drown out the announcements of the vigil by banging drums. As we reported, some were even holding up posters of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas Oct. 7 mastermind who Israel eliminated in October 2024.

But in what has to be a real example of someone hoisted with his own petard, Mamdani was heckled by the protesters.

They called him a traitor and a sellout. They directed all the standard anti-Israel chants against him.

The far left dubbed Biden “Genocide Joe.” During an August 2024 rally in Michigan, protestors heckled his would-be successor by shouting “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide, we won’t vote for genocide.”

In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, John Kirby, Biden’s National Security Council spokesperson, attempted to push back: How the White House’s John Kirby is taking on the word ‘genocide.’

Challenged at a White House briefing to confront the term “Genocide Joe” by some protesters to described Biden, Kirby, who had previously ruled out “drawing red lines” for Israel’s actions in Gaza, embarked on an animated exposition.

“People can say what they want on the sidewalk and we respect that. That’s what the first amendment’s about,” he said. “But this word genocide’s getting thrown around in a pretty inappropriate way by lots of different folks. What Hamas wants, make no mistake about it, is genocide. They want to wipe Israel off the map.

“And they’ve said that they’re not going to stop. What happened on the 7th of October is going to happen again and again and again. And what happened on the 7th of October? Murder; slaughter of innocent people in their homes or at a music festival. That’s genocidal intentions.

“Yes, there are too many civilian casualties in Gaza … And yes, we continue to urge the Israelis to be as careful and cautious as possible. But Israel is not trying to wipe the Palestinian people off the map. Israel’s not trying to wipe Gaza off the map. Israel is trying to defend itself against a genocidal terrorist threat. If we’re going to start using that word – fine. Let’s use it appropriately.”

Good luck with that, as Bill Maher recently told music producer David Foster:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll