Why is there a fucking Israel Day Parade in NYC?
W h a t t h e f u c k ?
Judaism Day Parade, sure! Israel Day Parade? Fuck that!
Is there a “Canada Day” parade as well? That one would at least make sense given proximity.
Canaday. and i don’t know but it’s stupid and it shouldn’t be.
Canadian pride ✅
Canada pride 🚩🚩🚩
Not to be confused with Cannaday.
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A can a day keeps the fascist away?
Having a parade for a country that has allowed itself to become what Israel has become does not make any sense.
Israel is a uniquely evil entity that has lost its legitimacy as a nation state. Why on Earth would any sane human go to a parade for it?
lost its legitimacy
I’m genuinely curious to know at what point in history you think it had legitimacy.
Fair point.
Well, it’s a way for the population of Israel’s vassal state to show their love for their sovereign.
I like how people here have this delusional idea that sovereign legitimacy is based on morality rather than hard power. Countries exist solely because they have the means to exclusively control the territory they occupy. Sovereignty is not given, but taken. It’s why the Taliban rules Afghanistan however they want even though they have no legitimacy in the world.
If morality was the basis of sovereignty, we would have like maybe a dozen countries who would be worthy of being soverign.
If there is a “Jewish day Parade” I’ll be there, but specifically Israel is super problematic; don’t know how any sane person can support anymore
This. “Hey, instead of parading for the ethnicity that has been victim of discrimination and genocide for millenia, let’s parade for the white colonizers larping as said ethnicity to gain Victim Points™!”
I am genuinely curious who you believe is ethnically Jewish if Israel is white colonizers pretending to be Jewish? I hear somewhat frequently that there aren’t “real” Jews anymore because intermixing with Europeans (and other ethnicities) diluted their bloodline too much, and it feels not only doublethinky but almost eugenicist.
I think the bottom line is Israel is either a theocracy first or a eugenics project first.
Stuff like this shows in the past, at least, it was leaning toward the latter: https://www.christiancentury.org/news/african-hebrew-israelites-finally-see-legal-victory-against-israel-s-deportation-threats
Oh no doubt, it is both a theocracy and a racial supremacy, with lighter skinned Jewish supremacy to boot. My concern has been with the seeming erasure of Jewish ethnicity through conflation with White Supremacy as the big societal evil of our time.
It just skeeves me out and feels basically racist when people call Israel white European settler colonialism. Like only the evil European White Man could be so evil, so they obviously aren’t “real” Jews. It has the same energy as white supremacists not counting Jews as white, just flipped and repackaged. Maybe it’s just racial purity testing in general not sitting right with me, I don’t like it when either political side does it.
this will really piss off a bunch of white redneck evangelicals that use israel to validate their death wish on society
Who don’t live in, have never been to, and are to scared to visit the city.
And likely have some not very nice things to say about the Jewish people.
I think they want them all in Jerusalem when the Bible’s Armageddon happens.
Fuck isreal
I never knew of the existence of an “Isreal Day” parade. Is there any other country focused parades out there? I don’t recall there being a British Day parade or Mexico day parade.
NYC loves its parades. There’s the Puerto Rican day parade for one, that one is pretty big. I wouldn’t look too much into that aspect of it.
Of course, fuck Israel nevertheless
Edit: there’s so many that Futurama made a joke about it
Not sure that compares since Puerto Rico is an American territory.
It compares if you look at the US as an Israeli territory.
NYC has huge populations of both intermingled with just about every other cultural or ethnic group you can imagine
There’s also St Patrick’s for Irish, and some Italian festivals, lgbtq parades, police parades (actually I think that overlaps with St Patrick’s).
When you live in tiny apartments, almost any excuse to be outside is welcome.
so is Israel /j
Uh, I think you have that reversed lol
Most people only know about Puerto Rican day from the episode of Seinfeld that aired exactly once before being pulled for desecrating the island’s flag.
maroon golf…
So does New Orleans and we don’t have an Israeli parade to my knowledge
Sure, but does New Orleans have a large jewish population? NYC historically does, so it’s no surprise there is influence. Israel can burn imo but I’m not shocked that somewhere with a high percentage of jewish people would have a parade in support of Israel, especially considering the work Israel does to push the connection between judaism and Israel.
Large enough that the lefties were split on Palestine and the local narrative was that wearing a Palestinian flag at a protest was tantamount to being anti semitic. But i doubt we have a huge population.
Apparently there are about 1.4 million Jewish people in NYC, or about 14% of the population, so yeah, it’s sizeable. I’m not defending them at all, it just grates me that people just gloss over what I feel are important details.
I thought Puerto Rico was a part of US.
It shares that with Israel
St. Patrick’s Day? Cinco de Mayo?
I get it that the situation with Israel is different, because the Jewish diaspora ≠ Israeli diaspora, and the state of Israel has an undue and disproportionate influence over US politics due to AIPAC, lobbying, and dual citizens in Congress.
And that’s all without even mentioning the unmitigated war crimes of the settler-colonial project that is modern Israel.
But let’s not be ignorant. The US does celebrate other nations’ and cultures’ holidays, to an extent.
Cinco de mayo is purely a United Statesian holiday. Mexicans have no idea what it is. (I guess United Statesians dont either lol, but it is a US holiday.)
Fun history lesson, Cinco de Mayo was first celebrated in the Mexican communities of California. It celebrates the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It was widely popularized by the Chicano movement in the 1950s.
Battle of Puebla Day was and sort of still is a holiday in Mexico, but it’s not on any official observances list, but school children do get the day off nationwide, and there’s reenactments and parades in Puebla. Widespread celebration fell off after the dictator who was fond of the holiday was deposed in 1911.
More fun history, the French won the Second Battle of Puebla a year later and then occupied Mexico City in their attempt to found a new Empire out of Mexico, because Napoleon the 3rd wanted one, but was way too incompetent to war with the rest of Europe. (He did some fighting in the Crimean War, but forgot to bring the artillery, the first Napoleon was an Artillery commander)
The same clown, Napoleon III, declared war against Prussia and got badly spanked. 1870 was a disaster for France.
And St Patrick’s Day is more of an America and Ireland thing. It’s certainly not British.
I never said it was British. What the fuck?
Op said British Day or Mexican Day parade and you responded with St Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo.
OP also asked if there were any other country-focused parades out there. That’s the part I was responding to.
Latching onto the wrong part of the comment to miscontextualize my response is a bad faith argument.
It’s not bad faith, you just made an unfortunate choice of example. It’s ok you can just say that wasn’t your intention and everyone moves on. Oops lol hehe etc.
So your inability to phrase a sentence correctly is now a bad faith argument? Give me a break.
I learned about that (in detail) from a Youtube channel about booze, of all places. It was surprisingly interesting!
Checks out
Also please, let us pronounce it correctly. “Cinco de Drinko.”
Kooko de Burra
Neither of those are comparable if you look at the contents of the events…or how they started…or even just the names.
IDO5 isn’t a celebration of Israeli culture. Its purpose is to celebrate the country/government. The theme of this parade is “Proud Americans, Proud Zionists”
Wow you ain’t kiddin. https://zoa.org/events/parade/
Pretty weird, right? It’s not about something commemorative, it’s literally a propaganda parade.
Imagine St. Patrick’s Day parades where they push the idea that Ireland should conquer the British isles
Imagine St. Patrick’s Day parades where they push the idea that Ireland should conquer the British isles
I’m listening…
/s
I didn’t say they were directly comparable or perfect analogues. I even pointed out some of the differences.
I just said let’s not make incorrect statements that we don’t celebrate other nations’ holidays. Not sure what the issue with trying to shore up our logic a little bit is, but if you want to go on with points that are easily debunked when a slight change of phrasing would make it more seaworthy, then go ahead, just don’t be surprised when zionists start poking holes in your logic and dismissing your arguments.
I just said let’s not make incorrect statements that we don’t celebrate other nations’ holidays.
Which was not what OP said in the first place.
What does this mean to you:
Is there any other country focused parades out there? I don’t recall there being a British Day parade or Mexico day parade.
It means exactly what it says. Do you see the word holiday in that quote?
What days do parades happen on?
The two holidays I mentioned both involve parades.
Are you this dense, or just being disingenuous?
Take your bullshit Mossad Propaganda somewhere else.
As far as I’m concerned, Israel is lucky they haven’t been carpet bombed back into the Biblical days they want to live in.
My bullshit Mossad propaganda:
I get it that the situation with Israel is different, because the Jewish diaspora ≠ Israeli diaspora, and the state of Israel has an undue and disproportionate influence over US politics due to AIPAC, lobbying, and dual citizens in Congress.
And that’s all without even mentioning the unmitigated war crimes of the settler-colonial project that is modern Israel.
Literally.
Forget it, Jake. It’s Tankietown.
Ain’t that just the truth. Can’t have a serious discussion here.
You’re barking up the wrong tree bud
Yeah, it’s not my intent to make what amounts to an ignorant comment. My thought has always been that Cinco de Mayo and St Patrick Day celebrates cultures - not blatently stating that it’s a “country” celebration… The title of this parade, from an outsider looking in, doesn’t seem to emphasize the culture, but rather the country.
Around my area, we have the Polish Day Parade. The point to celebrate the Polish culture. In this case, calling it an Isreal Day Parade seems to bring the country as the subject, not the culture and not the Jewish religion.
No it’s true based on a comment above this appears to NOT commemorate any particular historical event but just a thing. https://zoa.org/events/parade/
Thank you for the additional color. I’ve participated in dozens of parades. This one strikes me as very weird. So, good on Mamdani to sit that one out.
That makes sense, and I agree. I even mentioned the differences in my comment.
I just feel like phrasing it a little better makes for more solid logic so that it’s not as easy to refute or dismiss as is
But let’s not be ignorant.
I think its igorant to celebrate a country engaged in war crimes that our government simply fails to acknowledge. How many medical staff have they killed this week alone? But we are having a parade for them? Thats the ignorant thing here.
I never said otherwise. If you just argue on it on those grounds instead of claiming the US doesn’t celebrate any other foreign holiday then I think you’ll have pretty solid logic.
16 de septiembre (Día de la Independencia de México) or Día de muertos, please. Both have parades now.
Those are for a culture not geography
They should have called it the jew-rade parade. That would have been cooler.
Why is it we can never have a conversation about Israel without you fucking people lying about everything? It has to be deliberate.
Cinco de Mayo celebrates a culture, not a country. St Patrick’s Day celebrates a culture, not a country.
What fucking culture are we celebrating with “Israel Day?”
Israel isn’t a culture. It’s a goddamn country currently led by a fascist, genocidial government.
These two things aren’t related. And if you’re not literally stupid, you KNOW that they’re not the same thing…and you still insist on making the argument? Go spread that Mossad Propaganda somewhere the fuck else.
I literally pointed out the differences and nuance and what the actual problem with the Israel Day parade is, but if you want to just ignore that like you didn’t read it at all, that’s fine, go ahead.
Jackass.
Blah blah blah
Fucking Mossad Propagandist.
Why do you think I care if you take me seriously?
You’re pimping for people who murder children. As far as I’m concerned, I hope you get what Trump deserves.
I don’t care whether you care or not, that’s the thing. Stop flattering yourself.
This you:
And you:
Why is it we can never have a conversation about Israel without you fucking people lying about everything? It has to be deliberate.
What conversation? It’s a river of hateorade as usual. Are you not Intertained? We hate Israel, end of story.
Oh wait, someone’s not on board with “carpet bombing them back to the biblical days they want to live in”? Looks like it’s shivvin’ time! And while the curb stomping continues, you can tut-tut and opine: why can’t we just have a conversation?
🎶🎵You know where you are? You’re in the Lefty Jungle, baby! You’re gonna diiiieeeee 🥁🎸🥁🎶🎵
(That’s a reference to a rock song called “In the Jungle”, not any sort of threat, just to be clear for those who may be unaware. Relax, everybody’s fine.)Oh look, another Republican pretending to be a Democrat gets outed because he tried to make a joke and it flopped because no Republicans are funny.
Hahaha - that is funny
Mexico day parade
Dude. May was Just Here
British Day parade
Um, hello-oo, 4th of July…
The 4th is more like Anti-British Day
A daily occurrence around the world I’m sure
There are a ton of parades for one nationality or another in NYC. If you accept one’s like St. Patrick’s day, which are strongly associated with one country despite not being called the “X Nationality Day Parade,” you have the Irish, Scottish, Germans, Dominicans, Panamanians, Japanese and Chinese covered, at least.
Yeah there’s a bunch https://loving-newyork.com/new-york-parade/
In the Boston area, yeah, we have a whole bunch of national cultural festivals and parades. St. Patrick’s Day is the really big one because of all the Irish, but there’s also a lot of Italian and Greek and others. Edit: and Chinese, that’s a really big one too
Only in NYC or in the United States? Or globally celebrating internationally?
In New Brunswick, NJ, there’s a Hungarian Festival. It’s not a parade, but it shuts down the street whose historical significance is being the first street lit by Edison’s lamps.
I think British day is like reverse Independence Day. It’s a topic that has a lot of English themes.
Good, im proud of him.
Promises made, promises kept.
Israel can go fuck themselves.
Israel has no right to exist
Let alone a fucking parade
Israel should be dissolved and returned to the Palestinians. It’s Palestine.
The current population of wrongfully placed settlers can fuck off and move somewhere else.
Y’all can figure it out, after all you’re the fiercest and most adaptive people in the world, right?
Not to mention you’re narcissistic enough to believe you’re chosen by God over all other human beings on Earth.
Judaism is a fascinating faith but Zionism and by extension the entire failed experiment that has been known as Israel is just a disgusting warped off shoot that needs to be extinguished.
israel no longer deserves any celebratory recognition. they have overstepped any justification they had in avenging the hamas raid
They were like this as far back as the 1960s. We’ve always known.
Since its very inception. I.e., the 40s. And before its inception the people that were fighting for even getting Israel off the ground were bombing places, and organizing massacres of civilians.
Zionists have been colonizing Palestine since the late 1800s; the only difference between that and its so-called inception in the 40s are aid and recognition from western governments.
Independent reporters say there is ample proof the attack was a false-flag. The IDF is full of psychotic assholes, It wouldn’t surprise me a bit that they’d kill their own people.
they already do and did… the Harambe directive
It doesn’t even matter though. That festival was taking place on land that was stolen from Palestinians not long before. It was not their land to be festive on. The people who moved there knew exactly what they were doing and frankly had it coming.
A lot of those reports are nonsense. There’s solid evidence that several dozen, maybe a hundred at most, people were killed by friendly fire, which tends to get exaggerated to “every single victim at the Nova festival was killed by helicopter strafing under the Hannibal Directive.” Neither side anticipated how easy the siege would be to break, and the resulting undisciplined bloodbath isn’t out of line with similar anticolonial revolts throughout history. I don’t think there’s any reason to jump to conspiracy theories to explain the results of the Israeli government getting lost in its militaristic hubris and dehumanization of Palestinians.
Israel was always a genocidal project, that’s what settler-colonialism is.
There’s no more successful White Supremacist project in the World, which is probably why it’s so beloved by most of Europe’s as well as the American political classes.
What do you mean “no longer”? The whole country is founded on the ethnic cleansing of 700000 Palestinians. They were massacring entire villages in the 40s! When in the fuck was that ever deserving of a fucking parade? What the fuck?
https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide
Read this article. This is what Israeli genocide scholars had to say about the genocide less than a week after october 7th. It was already clear then and there that what Israel was doing was a genocide. Was the genocide justified then? When did it stop being justified? Two months later when South Africa launched its ICJ court case against Israel for committing a genocide, complete with about 100 pages of damning evidence of what Israel had been doing for the past two months? From when to when do you, personally, think the genocide was justified?
They never deserved it. The Israel project has been stealing land from Palestinians since the late 1800s. It was only during / after WW2 that they began to receive co-signs from western governments, hence the misnomer that Israel was founded as a response to WW2.
Hey now. Don’t you diss my bro Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole, author of hit song “Sonewhere over the Rainbow”
non stop Ws
I think the funniest part of this is I wandered over to the conservative areas of the internet to see the reaction and they’re fighting each other on how to feel about this. They all hate Mamdani, but half are as anti-Israel and “America first” that they’re asking why there’s an Israel Day parade and screaming at the pro-Israel groups that are mad at Mamdani for not going.
If nothing else, him doing this has given a fun show.
TBF the lunatics have a point - why the fuck is there an Israel day?! Not American so first I’ve heard of this.
It’s just an NYC thing, not American, as they have one of the densest Jewish populations in the US. I’d never heard of it either
There’s events for various cultures and ethnicities, the St. Patty’s day parade (for one example) has been going longer then the U.S. has existed as a country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Parades_in_New_York_City
Why not? The greatest thing about America is that it is a cultural melting pot where we all get to celebrate and share our cultures with each other. We have clearly lost sight of that these days with the fascist coup, but it’s still in our nation’s DNA.
Celebrating one’s culture can be wonderful. Celebrating Jewish heritage is perfectly fine.
Celebrating Israel is not celebrating Jewish heritage. Israel is an evil nation that not only commits attrocities, but fuels violent anti-Western extremists at the same time.
I’m of mixed descent but if I had an offficial any of those countries day that politicians were expected to go to I wouldn’t like that. I don’t even like canada day. I don’t like any country day.
[insert culture here] market and festival type events are great though I like traditional food, dance and crafts, etc. Celebrate the people not the country, and celebrate the culture only if it doesn’t involve killing civilians.
The only thing in your nation’s DNA is war, imperialism and racism.
That’s pretty reductionist.
“Might makes right” and White Supremacy are literally the values on top of which the US was created.
Just ask Native Americans.
The first one definitelly carries on very openly to this day (though nowadays it’s played a lot more with the power of money rather than outright use of force) whilst the second might seem to have gone away but judging by what’s being done now by the President elected by most Americans, clearly it did not, plus even the other bunch of the power duopoly that rules America were fine with that shit, though only abroad rather than home.
I mean, really, I’m trying to come up with values others than those that are true across America and I can’t think of any. Some States and even cities have certain highly celebrated values, sure, but America as a whole, not really. Maybe Jingoism?
Oh buhu
As a non new yorker, why is there a israel day parade in the first place?
Its an American sponsored colony.
IIRC there’s either more Jews in NYC than in Israel, or it’s the place with most jew (except Israel). So it kinda makes sense. Just like there’s a lot of Cubans in Miami. They probably have cuba-related parties too.
But judaism =/= zionism. Norman Finkelstein lives in New York. I assure you he also does not attend this parade.
Also there is literally an entire section within Judaism who believe for religious reasons that Israel should not exist.
I know. But just based on numbers, if there are a lot of Jewish people, there’s probably lots of Zionists.
Even if just 10% of NYC Jews are Zionists, that’s a lot of Zionists.
Fair point, I understand and agree. But I’m also never ever going to pass up on an opportunity to make the distinction between zionism and judaism explicit.
Does NYC organise parades for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party?
Because that would be the equivalent of organising parades to celebreate Zionism because there’s a lot of Zionists in NYC.
You may not like Israel. But it’s still a country. Immigrants making parades of their countries is normal when a city has a big population of said country.
Usually those parades are organized by the immigrants though, and just receive the help/blessing of the city. Idk if this one is organized by NYC or by the Jews.
Immigrants celebrating their country of origin is very different from political parties doing it.
You’re making me sound like I support Israel, I don’t. But it should be up to NYC and its population whether they should support this parade. Whether people outside NYC like Israel or not shouldn’t matter.
For example my city is very pro-palestine. So there are pro-palestine parades/protests and no pro-israel ones.
Otherwise, there would be no country-parades. Since there is no country that isn’t hated by some people.
I don’t like the actions of the State of Israel or the Apartheid elements in its Constitution. If it wasn’t for that I wouldn’t care about them either way since it would be just another normal country.
As for the rest, your argument fails miserably because, well, the core things which you imply are false:
- Most Jews living in NYC are not immigrants.
- Israel is not the country of origin of most Jews in NYC, quite the opposite - it’s a nation that aims for all Jews to go live there.
In fact the only way of twisting the objective reality to fit that idea that Jews in NYC are Israeli Immigrants it’s through the Zionist ideological view that all Jews are inherently Israeli, (an “interesting” take for New Yorkers given that part of the Jewish Community living in New York activelly believes for religious reasons that Israel should not exist).
So either way you’re either massivelly distorting the truth to build an “argument” on those falsehoods, in which case that’s all bullshit OR you genuinelly believe the Zionist (and very anti-semitic) idea that all Jews are not citizens of anywhere else but Israel (hence those in NYC are immigrants from Israel) in which case you’re making my point that the parade is for the political ideology of Zionism.
