I've just started the book that she refers to, would recommend, although not an easy read (Every Moment Is a Life: Gaza in the Time of Genocide )

That she seeks to educate Mamdani, and also compliments him on the good things he's done, is more powerful then any anger she could have expressed.

I thought this part on racism being one directional was very well put:

"...the most fundamental characteristic of racism, in fact, the primary and maybe only prerequisite for any kind of racism is a power gradient. It's a power differential that facilitates the transfer of abuse and oppression from those with power against those without power. Thus, racism is unidirectional. It can only flow from those who have power. The mistrust or hatred even that occurs in reverse is something else. It is the most natural reaction to the sustained systemic abuse, oppression, and violence from those who deem themselves superior, better, divinely favored, and so on. For example, the sniper who shot my friend Jihan's three-year-old daughter, shattering both her tiny legs while she was in her mother's arms in Gaza, is a hateful, racist ghoul. I understand that's one of the things I've been criticized for saying, and I double up on it, frankly. But the rage, the disgust, even hatred that Jihan or I feel toward that sniper is not racism. It is not anti-Jewishness. It is not anti-semitism. Nor are her feelings toward the tank operator who blew out the back of her son Harab's head, making her fingers sink into his brains when she tried to pick him up."