Hadassah Laura 📟 (@HadassahLaura)
Hadassah Laura 📟 (@HadassahLaura)
RT @RawaneOsmane (Rawan Osman روان عثمان): Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York is more than a local political upset, it is the crown jewel of Edward Said’s intellectual legacy. What began as a post-colonial academic movement in the 1970s has now matured into a political force shaping Western governance. Said’s Orientalism framed the West — and by extension Israel — as oppressive constructs built on domination and cultural arrogance. Today, his language of “decolonization,” “liberation,” and “resistance” has become the moral vocabulary of a generation of activists and politicians who see Israel not as a state among nations, but as the ultimate symbol of colonial sin. Mamdani, the son of scholar Mahmood Mamdani, one of Said’s closest intellectual heirs, represents the first full political translation of that worldview into American office. His campaign rhetoric, his positions on Israel, and his alliances within the progressive Left show that the Saidist critique has moved from university departments to city hall. What was once academic theory is now a governing ideology, one that questions the moral legitimacy of Zionism and redefines antisemitism as merely a debate about power. For Israel and Jewish communities, this marks a worrisome turning point. The ideas that once circulated among post-colonial theorists are now shaping the political mainstream in the world’s most Jewish city outside Israel. The rise of leaders like Mamdani signals that the real battle over Israel’s future is not fought on its borders, but within the moral imagination of the West… where Edward Said’s disciples now write the script. #Mamdani #newyork #newyorkcity #Israel #EdwardSaid #postcolonialism
