Posted on 06/04/2025 5:41:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Even by the madcap standards of New York City mayoral races, the 2025 campaign for City Hall looks like a doozy. The election’s most unanticipated elements are the surprise surges of former New York governor Andrew Cuomo—who survived short-lived political exile to become the race’s frontrunner—and his chief rival, Queens socialist and state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.
One of Cuomo’s big bets is on Jewish voters. Anti-Semitism, Cuomo declared in early April, is his campaign’s “most important issue . . . the toughest issue facing the city of New York and the country.” He’s made fighting the city’s anti-Semitic outbreak central to his tough-guy persona—and used it to present himself as the ideal foil to Mamdani, an outspoken opponent of Zionism.
Though Mamdani is trying to connect with Jewish voters—including making an appearance at an annual breakfast event hosted by the Orthodox-heavy Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush, in Brooklyn—he has a long road ahead of him in that effort. Mamdani has called Israel’s war with Hamas a “genocide,” and he protested with other Democratic Socialists in anti-Israel rallies just after Hamas’ October 7 massacre. He has taken part in a hunger strike—alongside celebrity activist Cynthia Nixon—in support of a Gaza ceasefire. And he introduced a bill that would make it harder to donate to charities that support West Bank settlements, part of his well-documented support of the odious Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
When it comes to the Jews, Mamdani also has questionable taste in allies. The mayoral hopeful recently called it “an honor” to meet with Rev. Al Sharpton, instigator of the infamous Crown Heights riots. And late last month he earned the endorsement of French Communist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has a long history of playing footsie with anti-Semites.
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They’ll vote for him if he is the rat candidate.
If he’s sufficiently anti-Trump, yes. Or was this a trick question? 🤔
They don’t want the pro Hamas candidate.
Jews love socialism. They even killed one of their own.
I live in the 3rd world craphole known as NY. I have a lot of Jewish friends and to a person they agree with me- NYChitty is full of self loathing Jews who continually vote for their own destruction
“Andrew Cuomo—who survived short-lived political exile to become the race’s frontrunner—and his chief rival, Queens socialist and state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.”
What an awful set of options.
What did he do for them as Governor?
NYC Jews will vote for Hamas if he had a D after his name.
So the two leading candidates for Mayor of NYC are a socialist that sexually harasses women and socialist that hates Jews. Neither of whom will do a damn thing to put criminals in jail, deport illegal immigrant gang members or solve homelessness. No wonder NYC is indistinguishable from a third world s%*thole.
A history of forcing people into camps for “health reasons” doesn’t bother Jews?
Yep!
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