New York’s socialist politicians are showing their true colors — and they’re not pretty.
Of 17 socialist pols The Post called for reaction to the Democratic Socialists’ celebration Sunday of Hamas’ massacre of Israelis, not one offered a simple, unequivocal condemnation.
Do their constituents have any idea how morally bankrupt their representatives are?
After Hamas terrorists savagely slaughtered more than 900 Israelis and kidnapped 150 others (grandmothers, babies, young kids), when Israel’s supporters and those who’ve lost loved ones are still grieving, pro-massacre protesters at the DSA rally came out to rub salt in the wound.
Some brandished swastikas; others burned the Israeli flag.
Yet none of the soulless New York politicians we called could state in simple, unadulterated language what should be a moral no-brainer: that Hamas’ butchery is repugnant, and nothing whatsoever justifies it.
Our reporters reached out to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman, state Sens. Julia Salazar, Jabari Brisport and Kristen Gonzalez, five Assembly members, five City Council members, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and city Comptroller Brad Lander.
Most couldn’t bring themselves even to return the call, knowing New Yorkers would be repulsed by their callous inhumanity.
Nor was labor union SEIU 1199, which has funded DSA-backed candidates, brave enough to respond.
Three pols did comment but offered shockingly muddled statements.
Brisport broadly condemned any “glorification of death” but made sure to blast supposed “atrocities against Palestinians.”
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani condemned the rally’s “rhetoric” but also noted his “support for Palestinian liberation.”
(Uh, Gazans do need liberating — from Hamas, not Israel.)
AOC didn’t respond or comment on the rally but blasted Hamas’ attack Saturday, while also railing about (Israel’s) “oppression and occupation” — and seeking a ceasefire that would let terrorists suffer no consequences and keep the hostages they took.
Lander also didn’t call back but slammed the protest in a tweet, while also stressing the need to work for “an end to the [Israeli] Occupation.”
City Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán, meanwhile, tweeted her “heart is with” all Israelis and Palestinians killed but “nothing can free everyday Israelis from danger and fear unless it also frees everyday Palestinians from oppression and occupation.”
Hmm. That a threat?
(Oh, and memo to AOC, Lander, Cabán & Co.: Israel does not “occupy” Gaza; the only Israelis there are those Hamas brutally kidnapped.)
Such moral equivalence at a time of outright barbarism waged by just one side, Hamas, outdo even Donald Trump’s Charlottesville, Va., comments that there were “bad people” and “very fine people on both sides.”
Jews know better than anyone what happens when people can’t call out evil for what it is.
Mayor Eric Adams knows, too: There are “a large number of people [in] a great deal of pain,” he said.
Indeed, not only Jews, but African Americans and other communities are outraged by “symbols of hate” like the swastika.
“Council people who associate themselves with DSA, they need to say [whether] that’s the message they . . . stand for,” Adams added. Earlier, he called the rally “disgusting.”
Few tests can reveal a politician’s humanity — or lack of it — like their position on the DSA rally and Hamas’ bloodthirsty attack.
Voters should never forget where their elected representative stand. Or don’t stand.