Jewish Democrats in Congress on edge after Zohran Mamdani’s NYC primary win: ‘Huge problem’

NY Post ^ | 7/09/25 | Carl Campanile

[Libloather]

Jewish Democrats in Congress are on edge after Zohran Mamdani’s party primary win in the race for New York City mayor — calling it a “huge problem” that he’s had an anti-Israel stance while antisemitism is on the rise.

The Dems in the US House of Representatives — including former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee Debbie Wasserman Schultz — are uneasy over Mamdani’s outward support for the anti-Israel BDS movement and his refusal to condemn the controversial “globalize the intifada” slogan.

“To not be willing to condemn the term ‘globalize the intifada,’ it just demonstrates his callous disregard for antisemitism, terrorist activity,” Wasserman Schultz, now a Florida congresswoman, told The Hill newspaper.

“Globalize the intifada” is viewed by many critics to be a rallying cry to terrorize and kill Jews.

“Anyone that I care about couldn’t possibly distance themselves from him more,” she added. “It’s really terribly disturbing and potentially dangerous.”

Mamdani also supports BDS — boycott, divestment and sanctions — against Israel and once said he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a war criminal.

Ohio Rep. Greg Landman, who sports a tattoo written in Hebrew, called Mamdani’s election in the city that has the largest Jewish population outside of Israel “a huge problem.”

“It is happening in the context of a violent surge in antisemitism,” Landman told The Hill. “Two Jews murdered here in Washington, D.C., at an event that some of us would have gone to had we not been voting, and then in Boulder, [Colorado] where Jews were set on fire.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: democrats; globalize; intifada; jewish; jews; mamdani; nyc; zohranmamdani

[rrrod]

Well said.

[Kudsman]

What help can we give to get the Jewish people to leave the anti-semite party? Jexit.

[hoagy62]

Simple, you vote the way your Mom and Dad, grandparents, aunts, and uncles voted. And if it’s Democrat, then by God, you do.

If they were real Jews, following the laws of Adonai, they'd drop their support of anything Democrat in a split-second.

Unfortunately, they're JINOs (Jews In Name Only) and not true children of Adonai.

[Braak]

While all that is true, you know tradition is a big pull in Ashkenazi famlilies. Not excusing it, just explaining it.

[dfwgator]

Many Jewish people are anti-Zionist, so they’ll love the guy.