Jewish Anti-Semitism

 Let’s face facts. If Republicans had nominated, for a major position, a raving anti-Semite, Democrat operatives would have been jumping out of their skin. They would insist that the GOP had become infested with anti-Semitism and that Trump is Hitler. You know the song. Repeat after me.

So, at a time when President Trump has joined with Israel, in all senses of the word, in their war against Iran, Democrats in New York City have nominated Zohran Mamdani for New York City’s mayor. 

Keep in mind, Mamdani wants to globalize the intifada, which means killing Jews. And he promises to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu if ever he steps foot in New York City.

As you know, the reliably leftist New York Times recommended that its readers reject Mamdani. And lifelong Democrat Lawrence Summers expressed his own alarm:

I am profoundly alarmed about the future of the @DNC and the country by yesterday’s NYC anointment of a candidate who failed to disavow a "globalize the intifada" slogan and advocated Trotskyite economic policies. I fear it is evidence that our party is following the most problematic aspects of Britain's Labor Party. It didn’t work there, and it won’t work here. @Harvard and other universities' moral weakness after Oct 7 in condoning hateful, anti-Israeli, and even antisemitic, rhetoric and activity opened the Overton window in ways that contributed to yesterday’s outcome. 

I hope candidate @ZohranKMamdani , who showed great ability to learn and adapt during his campaign, will continue to evolve in ways that provide much needed reassurance to people committed to a free from prejudice, market economy as an American ideal. An important task for Mamdani now is to provide reassurance that his moral energy and formidable political skills can be productively directed for the City of New York at this difficult moment.

The silliness about evolving simply means that if he makes a few noises against anti-Semitism Democrats are willing to overlook his bigoted history.

Another point is worth underscoring. The campus demonstrations in favor of Hamas and the intifada were instrumental in giving rise to a candidate like Mamdani. In fairness, Summers opposed campus anti-Semitism strongly. 

And yet, let us not forget that these demonstrations broke out in full force under the Biden presidency. If anti-Semitism has become acceptable, to the point where Jew-hatred is protected free speech, at a time when pro-Hamas students are defended by the political left, it should surprise no one that an anti-Semitic piece of scum should be leading the pack in New York City’s mayoral race.

The New York Times offers this analysis:

Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the city with the largest Jewish population in the world offered the starkest evidence yet that outspoken opposition to Israel and its government — and even questioning its existence as a Jewish state — is increasingly acceptable to broader swaths of the party, even in areas where pro-Israel Jews have long been a bedrock part of the Democratic coalition.

Some surveys showed Mr. Mamdani winning as many as one in five Jewish Democrats, with supporters including Brad Lander, the city’s comptroller, who also ran for mayor and encouraged his supporters to back Mr. Mamdani through a cross-endorsement. 

And on Wednesday, Representative Jerrold Nadler, one of the city’s most prominent Jewish leaders, endorsed Mr. Mamdani, saying they would work together “to fight against all bigotry and hate.”

But for other Jews around the country who were already struggling with their place in the progressive movement, Mr. Mamdani’s stunning victory confirmed their worst fears about the direction of the American left, fueling a sense that urgent concerns about the community’s safety are being dismissed in a movement and a city that Jews helped build.

Naturally, the candidate has been eating his words about Israel and Palestine. And yet, when he attended Bowdoin College, he belonged to the virulently anti-Semitic student group, Students for Justice in Palestine.

Jewish Insider has this to say:

In the closing days of the campaign, Mamdani, who began his activism journey as a Students for Justice in Palestine leader at Bowdoin College, defended the term “globalize the intifada” as an expression of Palestinian rights. Mamdani’s defense of the phrase was strongly criticized by Jewish groups across the ideological spectrum, who view the phrase as a call to violence. While Mamdani has pledged to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe, he has not acknowledged their concerns about his invocation of a phrase tied to a violent, yearslong Palestinian uprising. 

The Times of Israel reports similarly:

 Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary has set off shock waves among a Jewish communal establishment that has usually been able to count on the mayor to be in their corner on Israel and related issues.

At the same time, two of the city’s most veteran Jewish pro-Israel Democratic politicians — including the highest-ranking Jewish member of Congress — issued endorsements of Mamdani, a supporter of the boycott Israel movement.

Because Mamdani has broken the pro-Israel mold of past mayors — with his staunch condemnations of Israel and his embrace of much of the rhetoric of the pro-Palestinian left — his victory over a strongly pro-Israel rival like former New York governor Andrew Cuomo has tied the Jewish political and communal establishment in knots.

And let’s not ignore parentage.  Mamdani’s mother, famed film director  Mira Nair is similarly anti-Semitic.

Roy Abrams notes:

I’m still digesting the fact that Zohran Mamdani’s mother, the successful film director, Mira Nair, tried to get Gal Gadot banned from attending the Oscars because she’s Israeli. It is so grotesque, so hate-filled and un-American.

It does not really need mention but the American left is fighting the good fight against Trump-Hitler. So it is willing to ignore the anti-Semitism in its own ranks.

As I have said, it has become the stupid party.