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Look, New York, we've seen some wild mayoral races in our time, from Koch's great tenure pulling the city out of fiscal hell with tough love and balanced budgets to de Blasio's communist clown show of wealth redistribution fantasies and defund-the-police disasters, but this? This takes the cake, or should I say the knish?
As of July 14, 2025, Zohran Mamdani, that fresh-faced democratic socialist from Queens who's been marinating in his dad's radical academia, has locked down the Democratic nomination after steamrolling Andrew Cuomo in the primary. Now Cuomo's throwing a tantrum and going third-party, which means Mamdani's got a straight shot at City Hall unless some miracle happens.
But for the city's Jewish population, clocking in at over a million strong, this isn't just another election cycle; it's a five-alarm fire. Influenced by his old man, Mahmood Mamdani, the Columbia professor who loves comparing Israel to every colonial bogeyman in the book, Zohran's takes on Israel-Palestine aren't quirky side notes anymore. They're front and center, creating this insidious permission structure where hating on Jews gets a free pass under the banner of activism. You know the drill: when a bigshot politician normalizes demonizing Israel, it trickles down to the streets, where protests turn ugly, vandals get bold, and violence feels justified.
We're already knee-deep in it, with antisemitic incidents in NYC hitting record highs, like 345 in 2024 alone, more than all other hate crimes put together. That's one every 25 hours, and 2025's shaping up worse, with assaults and harassment exploding amid the anti-Israel rage.
Oh, and let's not forget the family legacy that's got everyone whispering, or screaming, depending on the outlet. Zohran's dad, Mahmood Mamdani, isn't just some ivory tower egghead; he's the guy who literally wrote the book on how America cooked up its own terrorist nightmares.
In Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Mahmood lays it all out: the US, desperate to stick it to the Soviets during the Cold War, basically birthed modern jihad by funneling cash, guns, and training to the mujahideen in Afghanistan. He calls it straight: the CIA was key to forging the link between Islam and terror in Central Asia, turning holy war into a US-backed export.
And those bad Muslims? Not some inherent evil, but a byproduct of Uncle Sam's meddling, like when Reagan paraded Afghan fighters as moral equivalents of America's founding fathers while the CIA revived jihad after 400 years of dormancy. Terrorism, he argues, isn't religious fanaticism; it's political blowback from policies that armed proxies and walked away, leaving chaos in places like Afghanistan and Central Asia.
He even drags Israel into it, comparing how the US let Islamism fester against the Soviets to how Israel allegedly nurtured Hamas during the first intifada to undermine the PLO, only to get bitten later. For Mahmood, Zionism's just another settler-colonial gig, akin to apartheid South Africa, using civilization talk to mask displacement and justify terror. No wonder critics accuse him of flipping the script, blaming the West and Israel for turning good Muslims bad through endless interventions.
The violence of the settler, especially in terms of the US and Israel, is normalized as defensive, while Muslim resistance gets slapped with the terror label. It's the kind of thinking that makes you wonder if the apple fell far from the tree, or if it's just rolling downhill straight into City Hall. Under Koch, we had a mayor who stared down fiscal ruin and union strikes, restoring order and making New York safe again for business and families, including Jewish ones who thrived in his pro-growth era. De Blasio?
He turned the city into a socialist playground, hiking taxes on the rich to fund pie-in-the-sky programs that left streets dirtier and crime spiking, all while cozying up to far-left radicals. Mamdani looks like de Blasio on steroids, with an added layer of anti-Israel venom that could make Koch spin in his grave.
Zohran's soaked up that worldview like a sponge, turning it into his political North Star. Back in college at Bowdoin, not Yale as some mixups go, he cofounded a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, the kind of group that invited speakers who pinned 9/11 on US foreign policy and called Israel a bigger terror threat than alQaeda. His own writings from those days? Pure fire: railing against Israeli apartheid, pushing boycotts, and tying Palestinian liberation to every social justice fight under the sun. He's said it loud and often, Palestine isn't a side hustle; it's the bedrock of his politics, the issue that defines his worldview and fuels his run for office. In interviews, he frames it as the ultimate test of solidarity: no dignity for anyone until Palestinians get theirs, with the US and Israel as the prime culprits for funding and enabling what he calls genocide in Gaza. It's the thread running through his activism, from BDS calls to denouncing US arms shipments as money for massacres.
Compare that to Koch, who navigated the city's diverse communities with pragmatism, supporting Israel staunchly during tense times like the 1982 Lebanon War, without letting ideology blind him to New York's needs. De Blasio, meanwhile, flirted with anti-Israel elements in his base, attending events with BDS supporters and dragging his feet on condemning antisemitism during spikes in hate crimes. Mamdani's obsession could eclipse that, turning City Hall into a pulpit for Palestinian causes at the expense of Jewish safety.
Dig into his X feed, and it's a nonstop barrage; 20 recent posts paint a clear picture of where the blame lands. He's all about ceasefire demands, mourning Palestinian losses while slamming US tax dollars for Israel's genocide and indiscriminate bombing in Gaza and Lebanon. No love for Hamas rockets, sure, but the finger points squarely at Israel for apartheid, occupation, and settlements driving dispossession, with America as the enabler, ignoring its own laws to arm the chaos.
He boosts BDS as righteous liberation, calls out electeds junketing to Israel on lobby dime, and warns Biden's Gaza stance could hand Trump the election by alienating voters sick of funding genocide. Posts decry war criminals in the city, tie Palestinian starvation to US support, and frame the fight as global justice against evil occupation. No explicit shoutouts to the Muslim Brotherhood or direct terrorist endorsements, but the narrative's consistent: US and Israel policies create the violence, Palestinian resistance gets a sympathetic nod through noncondemnation of slogans like globalize the intifada, and the real bad guys are the powers starving Gaza while preaching democracy.
He shares stories of Palestinian kids killed, calls Netanyahu a liar on aid, joins protests blocking the NYSE over weapons profits from Israel's escalation, and even ties it to his own campaign, noting a NY Post hack joking about Israel bombing his launch event packed with people of color. It's the kind of feed that normalizes blaming the West for every flareup, turning family dinner debates into citywide policy threats, and making Jewish New Yorkers wonder if their mayor might see their support for Israel as complicity in the very terrorism his dad says America invented. Koch would have called this out as divisive nonsense; de Blasio might have retweeted it.
Here's the top five reasons this guy's run should have every Jewish New Yorker rethinking their subway routes, and how it's turbocharging the hate we're witnessing right now.
His Free Palestine Obsession Could Make NYC the Epicenter of AntiZionist Mayhem
Oh, where to start with Mamdani's Free Palestine schtick? He's all aboard the BDS train, slamming Israel as an apartheid nightmare, straight out of daddy's syllabus on settlercolonialism gone genocidal. Mahmood's been peddling this for years, equating Israel to history's worst offenders. Zohran picks it up and runs with it, pushing for the city to yank investments from anything smelling of Tel Aviv. Scary stuff?
You bet your bagel it is. This isn't harmless sloganeering; it's the kind that morphs Free Palestine into From the River to the Sea, which a lot of Jews interpret as code for erasing Israel off the map. As mayor, he could rubberstamp protests that overrun Jewish enclaves, turning synagogues into fortresses and businesses into targets. Koch cracked down on disorder, restoring faith in government after the 1970s chaos; de Blasio let Occupy Wall Street types camp out and alienate communities. Mamdani's version could be worse, with anti-Israel marches blocking shuls on Shabbat.
History's got receipts: Back in the 19471948 ArabIsraeli War, those same liberation cries fueled attacks on Jewish communities in Mandatory Palestine, leaving over 6,000 Jews dead, including 2,373 civilians, and ancient synagogues in ashes. Cut to today, postOctober 7, 2023, NYC's seen a 110% jump in antisemitic crap in 2023, with 393 linked straight to antiZionism. In 2024, it ballooned to 1,437 statewide, mostly here, featuring swastikas on doors and bomb threats galore. Mamdani's platform mainstreams this vibe, giving thugs the green light to punch Orthodox folks on the F train just for existing. We're seeing the violence spike now, with hate crimes up 69% from 2019, and his run just pours gasoline on it. If he wins, kiss goodbye to feeling safe in your own borough, a far cry from Koch's law-and-order revival.
Dodging Condemnation of Globalize the Intifada Is Like Waving In Global Terror
Jesus, the balls on this guy: Mamdani flatout refuses to trash Globalize the Intifada, spinning it as some noble quest for justice against abuses, even tying it to the Warsaw Ghetto heroism. His pops? He's been calling Israel's moves genocidal, linking them to colonial atrocities left and right. For Jewish New Yorkers, this is pure nightmare fodder. Intifada screams suicide bombs and chaos, and globalizing it means shipping that horror worldwide, right to our doorsteps. De Blasio's soft-on-crime policies let violence fester; Koch would have shut this rhetoric down cold.
This builds a permission slip for framing bloody uprisings as righteous, letting chants slide into actual attacks on Jews everywhere. Mayor Mamdani might go soft on policing these rallies, watching as they torch Jewish spots. Remember the Second Intifada from 20002005? Over 130 suicide bombings slaughtered more than 1,000 Israeli civilians, with shockwaves like the 2002 Tunisia synagogue bombing that killed 21. Today, it's echoing loud: The ADL clocked over 10,000 U.S. antisemitic incidents from October 2023 to September 2024, triple the year before, many at these rallies. In NYC, 2025's already dishing Molotovs at Jewish events and synagogue arsons, with perps screaming Free Palestine. Mamdani's stance normalizes the slogan, handing haters a blank check to go from yelling to yanking kippahs off heads. Assaults on visible Jews jumped 7% in 2024, and his campaign's making it electable. Terrifying? Understatement of the century, especially when Koch's era saw Jewish communities flourish without this shadow.
Ceasefire Now Yells Ignore Hamas Rockets, Leaving Jews Hanging
Mamdani's pounding the Ceasefire Now drum, weeping for losses on both sides but ripping U.S. aid to Israel as genocide fuel, aping his father's blasts at the International Court of Justice over Israel's deeds. He rags on Gaza ops without equal heat for Hamas's barrages. To Jews, this reeks of bias, paving the way for mayoral moves like hamstringing NYPD's antiterror links or letting encampments choke Jewish hoods. Koch balanced foreign policy stances with local security; de Blasio's equivocations emboldened radicals.
It normalizes lopsided blame, giving protesters carte blanche to vilify Israel and Jews by proxy while brushing off real threats.
History warns us: The 20082009 Gaza ceasefire let Hamas reload, triggering Operation Cast Lead with over 1,100 Palestinian and 13 Israeli deaths, sparking copycat horrors like the 2014 Jerusalem synagogue massacre of five. Now, NYC's 2024 hate crimes tallied 641, 54% antiJewish, amid ceasefire demos gone feral, from subway threats to museum trashings. In 2025, campus incidents are up 163%, fueling an attack rhythm every 25 hours. Mamdani's run blesses this rhetoric, masking hate as peace pushes, and Jewish security takes the hit, undoing the stability Koch fought for.
To Be Continued…
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