{"id":122171,"date":"2025-06-26T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=122171"},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:31:53","slug":"26-00-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=122171","title":{"rendered":"New York City Jews Sound Alarm After Anti-Israel Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins Democratic Mayoral Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>New York City Jews Sound Alarm After Anti-Israel Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins Democratic Mayoral Primary<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Corey Walker<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a Democratic New York City mayoral primary debate, June 4, 2025, in New York, US. Photo: Yuki Iwamura\/Pool via REUTERS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Following Zohran Mamdani\u2019s stunning victory in New York City\u2019s Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, local Jewish leaders are expressing deep apprehension about their future status in a city facing the prospect of being led by a man who has been accused of antisemitism and made anti-Israel activism a cornerstone<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of his political career.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mamdani, the 33\u2011year\u2011old state assemblymember and proud democratic socialist, defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other candidates in a lopsided first\u2011round win in the city\u2019s Democratic primary for mayor, notching approximately 43.5 percent of first\u2011choice votes compared to Cuomo\u2019s 36.4 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Voters in New York City rank their choices in order of their preference. While Mamdani declared victory and Cuomo conceded defeat, the race\u2019s ultimate outcome will technically be decided when every vote is tallied, taking into account the ranked choice count. Mamdani\u2019s victory is all but assured.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some observers have speculated that Mamdani\u2019s win over an older, high-profile Democrat signifies growing frustration with the party\u2019s status quo and represents a generational change.<\/span><\/p>\n

The election results have also alarmed members of the local Jewish community, who expressed deep concern over his past criticism of Israel and defense<\/a> of antisemitic rhetoric.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMamdani\u2019s election is the greatest existential threat to a metropolitan Jewish population since the election of the notorious antisemite Karl Lueger in Vienna,\u201d Rabbi Marc Schneier, one of the most prominent Jewish leaders in New York City, said in a statement. \u201cJewish leaders must come together as a united force to prevent a mass Jewish Exodus from New York City.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, who along with her husband Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt co-founded the Altneu, an Orthodox synagogue on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side, suggested that Mamdani\u2019s political ascendance indicates that antisemitism might actually be a political \u201casset\u201d these days. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps soft antisemitism is not a liability for a NYC politician. It\u2019s an asset,\u201d Chizhik-Goldschmidt wrote. \u201cPerhaps New York City is not the city we thought it was.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who later founded the organization Americans Against Antisemitism, similarly repudiated Mamdani and encouraged New Yorkers to consolidate behind a single candidate to oppose the presumptive Democratic nominee in the general election in November.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMamdani has won the Democratic primary,\u201d he said in a video posted to social media. \u201cIt is pathetic, it is sick, it is painful for people who care about the future of New York and in particular the Jewish community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hikind added in a written post accompanying the video: \u201cNYC must unite to defeat the dangerous antisemite Mamdani.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A little-known politician before this year\u2019s primary campaign, Mamdani is an outspoken supporter of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement<\/a>, which seeks to isolate Israel from the international community as a step toward its eventual elimination.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mamdani has also repeatedly refused to recognize Israel\u2019s right to exist<\/a> as a Jewish state, falsely suggesting the country does not offer \u201cequal rights\u201d for all its citizens, and promised to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most recently, Mamdani defended the phrase \u201cglobalize the intifada\u201d\u2014 which references previous periods of sustained Palestinian terrorism against Jews and Israels and has been widely interpreted as a call to expand political violence \u2014 by invoking the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during World War II. In response, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum repudiated<\/a> the mayoral candidate, calling his comments \u201coutrageous and especially offensive to [Holocaust] survivors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The same week, an old X\/Twitter post from 2015 by Mamdani resurfaced online showing him appearing to threaten that a \u201cthird intifada<\/a>\u201d was coming.<\/span><\/p>\n

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New York City, which is home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, has experienced a major spike in antisemitic incidents since Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel, with police data showing Jews were targeted in the majority of hate crimes<\/a> perpetrated in New York City last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Concern among Jewish leaders over Mamdani\u2019s victory amid rising antisemitism extended well beyond New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt<\/a>, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, warned that Mamdani\u2019s victory represents a well-known pattern that starts with hatred of Israel and ends with violence targeting Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cZohran Mamdani\u2019s win in <\/span>#NYC<\/span> feels deeply familiar to <\/span>#Europe\u2019<\/span>s <\/span>#Jewish<\/span> community. We\u2019ve seen where radical politics \u2014 especially cloaked in \u2018justice\u2019 rhetoric \u2014 can lead. It starts with slogans. It ends with violence,\u201d Goldschmidt, the former chief rabbi of Moscow, posted on social media.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Europe, we\u2019ve learned the hard way: when far-left ideologues and radical Islamists turn Israel into a symbol of absolute evil, it quickly becomes a weapon \u2014 not against a state, but against Jews. \u2018Anti-Zionism\u2019 becomes the mask. Exclusion and incitement follow,\u201d the rabbi continued. \u201cThis isn\u2019t about legitimate critique of Israeli policy. It\u2019s about obsession. Israel becomes a dog whistle \u2014 a coded target on synagogues, schools, and Jews in public life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Europe, like New York, has experienced a surge in antisemitism<\/a> since Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 massacre, with antisemitic incidents often liked to animus against Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe safety of all New Yorkers \u2014 including Jewish New Yorkers \u2014 is the single greatest responsibility of the mayor of New York,\u201d said Rabbi Moshe Hauer, executive vice president of the Orthodox Union.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat safety has been deeply impacted by the rhetoric and actions of those whose opposition to Zionism has driven them to work to instill fear and intimidation in Jews who support Israel,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), called for Jews in New York to immigrate to Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs an American Jew and as a human, I am truly frightened that an antisemitic communist, Mamdani, has actually promoted murdering Jews by supporting and legitimizing the antisemitic rally cry \u2018globalize the intifada,\u2019 refuses to accept the Jewish state of Israel as a Jewish state, states he will arrest PM Netanyahu if he comes to NYC, and is friendly with Israel bashing Jew-haters \u2013 and yet has been mainstreamed in the most important Jewish city in America,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is time to make aliyah<\/em> to Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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