This week, New York City sent a message — and for Jews, it’s chilling.
Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist and anti-Zionist State Assemblyman from Queens, just won the Democratic Primary in a landslide. But this isn’t a local political story. It’s the story of how antisemitism, cloaked in social justice language and weaponized by extremist ideologues, has gone mainstream in America. And now it's winning.
Let’s be honest about who Mamdani is — and what he stands for:
What Zohran Mamdani stands for
- He has refused to condemn Hamas after its October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians, blaming Israel for the massacre on October 8, before it even retaliated.
- He refused to support Holocaust remembrance legislation.
- He has justified “global intifada” — a phrase calling to murder Jews worldwide — and even compared it to Jews being freed from Nazi death camps. Let that sink in.
- He starred in music videos praising literal convicted Hamas financial backers, the "Holy Land Five” (yes, he was a failed rapper until like 3 years ago).
- He regularly calls Israel — a liberal democracy that gives its 2 million Muslim citizens complete equal rights — an “ethno-state,” while refusing to acknowledge the 57 Muslim/Arab-majority countries that surround it without protest. A collective that controls 1,400 times more landmass than the sole Jewish state, and which have ethically cleansed the million Jews who once lived there.
- He constantly calls Israel an apartheid state but refuses to visit — because, like every other lie he tells about the Jewish state, the truth would expose him.
- He claims to stand for LGBTQ rights while demonizing the only country in the Middle East — Israel — where LGBTQ people can live openly and freely.
- He attacks Israel and the US for trying to stop Iran from making nuclear weapons, instead of criticizing the Ayatollah for building them to wage a nuclear Holocaust.
- He attempted to pass legislation that would strip Jewish nonprofits of their tax-exempt status if they supported Israel. Yes, you read that right…
- He wants to defund the police at a time when Jews in NYC are under unprecedented threat and need more security — not less. While synagogues and Jewish schools are being targeted, Mamdani’s answer is to weaken their protection.
- He says he wouldn’t send the NYPD to violent college encampments, which have blocked Jews from walking on their campuses, have often shown blatant support for Hamas, called for killing Jews, plus caused millions in damage from vandalism and hostile building takeovers, to the point where Jews have been asked to stay off campus for long periods.
- And perhaps most revealing: he built his entire political career around the movement to demonize and divest from Israel — ignoring brutal regimes in China, Iran, Venezuela, or Sudan. If the only Jewish country in the world is your only target, that’s not activism. That’s antisemitism.
If you've read this list and still don't think he hates Jews, you’re lying to yourself. I’m sorry to be blunt but it's like saying the Hitler campaign of 1933 was Jew-friendly.
Most grotesque, Mamdani thinks he, as a Muslim, gets to decide anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. Not actual Jewish people, which estimates say over 90% identify as Zionists. Let’s just be honest, If you hate over 90% of a race (99% of Jews are Jews by blood) you are a racist. Plain and simple.
Even if we take Mamdani at his word that he is not antisemitic but just “anti-Zionist.” That would mean he is anti-the-overwhemingly-majority-of-Jews-in-NYC he would be elected to lead. No candidate for American office has run on such a race-baiting platform since the civil rights movement. Jewish New Yorkers have every right to be terrified right now.
And it’s not just Jews, Zohran is openly racist towards white people. Jews just fall at the top of his warped white oppressor vs dark-skinned oppressed hierarchy model. Look no further than his own campaign website which says he plans to heighten taxes on “whiter neighborhoods.”
Not only is that blatantly illegal under the constitution, it may be the most racist thing a modern day campaign has ever proposed. He’s been questioned on it many times since winning the primary, and only doubled down on it, just as he has with his grinning refusal to disavow the genocidal slogan “from the river to the sea.” Just because you smile while hating people for who they are, doesn’t mean you’re not a bigot. It’s even worse — it means you're a grotesque gaslighter.
What’s most frightening is not only is Mr. Mamdani a proud racist, his entire perception of race is alarmingly distorted. Last week he began crying in an interview as he said he’s being attacked by racists because he’s Muslim. Let’s be clear, Islam is NOT a race. It’s a religion. Unlike Jews, which are actually a race and for whom he wishes to eradicate, at least half of, in his twisted dream for a destroyed Jewish State.
Want more proof? Let’s see who’s celebrating most right now. The Democratic Socialists of America — Mamdani’s political party — which literally celebrated the mass shooting of Jews in Washington, DC, tweeting joy after gunmen opened fire outside a Jewish museum just a few weeks ago. He marches with the most vile antisemites from radical jihad groups like Within Our Lifetime, which call for the death of Jews almost daily on the streets of NYC. This is the culture he represents — this is the company he keeps.
Mamdani’s victory is not in spite of these views — it’s because of them.
Zohran Mamdani's victory was because of his racist, antisemitic views
Antisemitism is trending. It’s fashionable. It’s viral. It’s what helped carry him onto the ballot.
And don’t take my word for it — just look at who else is cheering. The world’s loudest antisemites are celebrating this win. Jew-bashing influencers like Hassan Piker, a far-left influencer who said “America deserved 9/11” and regularly spreads hatred toward Jews and Israel. Tucker Carlson, who is ideologically opposed on paper but shares his hatred of Jews, has praised Zohran’s victory. There’s only one thing the woke left and the woke right seem to agree on and that’s antisemitism. Their shared support of him is a clear sign of what he and his win represent.
Zohran is a wolf in sheep’s keffiyehs — a smiling, articulate radical cloaked in social justice buzzwords, whose policies and alliances will make New York even more dangerous for Jews. According to the ADL, New York already leads the nation in antisemitic hate crimes — more than any other city in America. Under Mamdani’s vision, it will only get worse. Jews will die and Mr. Mamdani will turn a blind eye.
It's not shocking he won college-educated voters. As a Jewish comic who lives here, known for viral interviews of NYC’s students, I’ve seen firsthand how deep this indoctrination runs. They're being brainwashed not only online, but at school. I’ve asked them simple questions — “Should Zionists be shot dead on the streets?” — and watched them say "yes" unequivocally. These students have been taught to hate capitalism, hate America, and hate Jews. And now, one of their movement leaders could be in office making their domestic terror dreams come true.
And the antisemitic apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Mamdani’s father is a radical "de-colonialist" Columbia professor who gleefully attended the antisemitic college encampments that terrorized Jewish students across the country last year. These weren’t protests — they were pogroms in a progressive wrapper.
And his mother, filmmaker Mira Nair, is no better. In 2013 she publicly boycotted the Haifa Film Festival, and in 2024 she signed a letter demanding Gal Gadot be banned from the Oscars — simply for being an Israeli Jew. This family’s ideology is not some misunderstood “activism.” It is generational Jew-hate repackaged for elite American audiences.
Mamdani doesn't just hate America. He barely understands it. He’s been an American citizen for less than a decade, originally from Uganda.
At just 33 years old, with minimal legislative experience and having passed only two bills in Albany, Mamdani calls himself a socialist — a label that should alarm anyone who remembers the 100 million dead under socialist regimes in the 20th century. Who knows how he will destroy the city's economy and send businesses running. Yet he is now inexplicably treated like a moral compass for the left. But the only compass he follows is the one that points away from Jewish safety and toward ideological extremism.
Mamdani is proudly endorsed by radical Muslim groups like CAIR, which have been banned as terrorist organizations by many Middle Eastern governments for supporting radical Islamism.
Meanwhile, here in New York — the largest Jewish population on Earth outside Israel — our communities are under siege. We’ve seen Jewish-owned businesses burned in Long Island. Jews beaten in broad daylight in Brooklyn. People are afraid to wear Jewish stars in public for fear of violence. And the people behind these attacks chant the same slogans Mamdani defends.
They want to chase Jews out of New York, out of America, out of public life. We can’t let them.
In the days since Mamdani’s win, antisemites online have only grown more emboldened. I’ve seen people openly posting “The intifada has been globalized,” telling Jews to “leave New York,” and even saying “Hitler would have loved this.” This is the climate Mamdani has helped create — one where genocidal slogans are no longer fringe, but viral. Like many grifters these days, he surfs on the algorithmic waves of antisemitism.
What's perhaps most revealing: on my own social feeds, I saw many liberals I knew celebrating Mamdani’s win. But what stood out? Nearly every single one of them was a young, white person with rich parents. These are not working-class voices yearning for communism. These are the luxury activists — performative progressives raised in privilege, insulated from real-world consequences. They chase causes like fashion trends, and for them, bashing Israel has become the latest accessory. It's easy to call for igniting a revolution when you know you’ll never pay the price for the fire.
And this election is bigger than Queens. This is the biggest referendum on Jew-hate in America since October 7. Mamdani, who started the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at his school, which has been the biggest stirring-pot for Jew hate on college campuses, is the perfect poster-boy. This man is so deeply antisemitic, he’s not only built a career on getting non-Jews to hate Jews, but simultaneously tries to poison progressive Jews hate their own people. Sadly, his twisted diversion has worked. To the Jewish liberals who voted for Mamdani — you didn’t vote progressive. You voted for pogroms. You are today’s kapos: Jews who empower those who wish to destroy us, hoping their usefulness will spare them. Unfortunately, when the intifada arrives, they won’t be checking your voting records. Even worse, if Mamdani wins, the police may be too defunded to even come save you. Luckily, it’s not too late to come to your senses. November is a reset.
This moment is bigger than Mamdani. It’s about whether we want a New York that protects its minorities — or sacrifices Jews for political clout.
Jews are already fleeing Europe because of the radical Islamist takeover. We have four months to save New York City from becoming the next Paris, the next London — where Jews are afraid to walk the streets in a yarmulke. The choice is ours. We make up 12% of the city, a million strong, and can still save it. A city where so many of ancestors found refuge at Ellis Island after the Holocaust, illuminated by the light of Lady Liberty herself. It’s a town that represents America on the world stage more than anywhere else. It represents freedom. For Jews, and for everyone.
And make no mistake: political strategists across the world are watching this race. If Mamdani’s antisemitism with a smile playbook works here, it will be exported — to Chicago, Los Angeles, and beyond. New York is the test case. And if we don’t stand up now, it won’t stop here. The intifada will be globalized.
If you vote for Mamdani, you hate Jews. And if you’re Jewish and vote for him, I’m sorry but you hate yourself. Being hateful with a smile doesn’t negate one’s hate. In fact, it makes it worse. It makes it mainstream…