Pro-Palestine activists have taken to calling Zohran Mamdani “ZOGran Goydani,” a name that for now seems to have won out over “Ziohran.”
When other leftists object to this behavior, as Jacobin contributor José Sanchez and DSA Maoist Christopher Winston did recently, they are attacked. When Winston objected to the use of “ZOGran Goydani”, he was immediately pounced upon with language like “ZOG slave,” “goy slave,” and “kikeslave.” When Sanchez called such language “the socialism of fools”, he was called a “shabbos goy cuck,” “cucked Marxist,” “Zionist cuck.” It’s difficult to work out whether those denouncing them are anti-Israel leftists or right-wing groypers because their language is now indistinguishable.