Well, because we're talking about the Israel issue, the other race in which Israel and Palestine

was really central to the differences between the candidates was in New York's 13, which is

in Upper Manhattan, where Darya Liza Avila Chevalier won. She's a very serious, capable,

accomplished, and beloved organizer. I mean, everybody that I know who knew her

from working, she worked on Mamdani's campaigns, on various DSA campaigns, and, you know, in the

Palestine Solidarity Movement, that she's just, she's fantastic. And one of the things that

motivated her to run, she talked about a lot, was that when her friend and organizing compatriot Mahmoud Khalil was arrested

by the government, he was Esbayat's constituent and Esbayat didn't do shit for him. You know, he did

some tweet saying like, you know, we'll see what the Justice Department says. And that really pissed her off,

as it rightly should have.

And he's, to some degree, paying for that uncaring ineptitude on his part from that moment.

I mean, what a disgusting response. I think, like, in terms of emotional satisfaction for a lot of

people on the left in New York and DSA, it's delicious irony, right, that this Columbia

PhD student will now be represented. I know we mentioned that briefly at the start, but it's just

like kind of incredible. And she's also the Canada that is driving the right, you know, the most.

The most crazy, yeah. But I think part of the satisfaction is that

so much, I think, of the New York Democratic establishments, flat-footedness, uncaring,

kind of indifference to the government's crackdown on pro-Palestine organizing in this city,

it was motivated in part, some of them

for ideological reasons, because they support Israel. But I think a lot of them just did it out of

cowardice because they thought, oh, this Israel-Palestine issue is too hot, and these crazy

leftist anti-Israel people are going to ruin the democratic brand. And courage is what has paid off.

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