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Zohran Mamdani: “It is hard to find a more bankrupt policy approach than what…”

Featuring: Zohran Mamdani, Democratic | Mayor of New York City

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Published | Video Starts at 19:24

I think what we have seen from New Yorkers, what we have seen from Americans, when we talk about this hunger for a new kind of politics, it's a hunger to move beyond the bankruptcy that characterizes a lot of politics today. And It is hard to find a more bankrupt policy approach than what our country has done to Gaza and to Palestine. and how it hasn't been specific to any one party. It's been again and again an insistence to tell New Yorkers and to tell Americans that what they are seeing is not something they should in fact either be concerned by or believe in. (19:24–19:34)

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Asserts that U.S. policy towards Gaza and Palestine is one of the most bankrupt policy approaches.

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