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About Mamdani cheerleader Libby Lenkinski:

She “says” she is an Israeli-American activist.

She is Vice President for Strategy at the New Israel Fund (NIF).
The NIF engages in advocacy and is associated with a “joint lobbyist” in some contexts.

Libby Lenkinski has not registered as a lobbyist and
could be directly lobbying the US government sub rosa.

Her work appears to focus on
<><>strategy, cultural initiatives, and public commentary,
<><>related to ultra liberal “progressive politics”
<><> and Israeli issues.......while claiming to be an “American.”

Read it and weep.

A NY Jew tells why she’s voting for Mamdani
Unfortunately for Americans, they’re the very same ones controlling US policy

Forward.com ^ | November 02, 2025 | Libby Lenkinski
Posted on 11/3/2025, 10:09:45 PM by Red Badger

He’s shown up for my Jewish community in profoundly meaningful ways On Kol Nidrei, the evening service that begins Yom Kippur, I found myself at synagogue with Zohran Mamdani. Lab/Shul in Manhattan isn’t your typical synagogue; it’s a laboratory for belonging, where ancient liturgy meets radical inclusion. The service was led by my rabbi, Amichai Lau-Lavie — an Israeli who knows how to fill the room with both grief and hope.

Mamdani sat in the front row, with Rep. Jerry Nadler and Comptroller Brad Lander. As Lau-Lavie welcomed them to the space, Nadler and Lander were greeted with respectful applause. But when Mamdani’s name was spoken something electric ripped through the room. The applause didn’t just rise; it roared.

It was long, sustained, defiant, joyful. For me, that welcome of Mamdani — a Muslim and openly leftist candidate — on the holiest night of the Jewish year wasn’t symbolic. It was spiritual. It was the sound of a community saying: We are not afraid. And I wasn’t either. I felt safe. Seen. At home.

“My commitment is to make every New Yorker feel safe — Jews included — through policy grounded in equality, not fear,” Mamdani said earlier this year, as reported in The Guardian. That night, in the sanctuary, those words felt real. A few days later came another night I’ll never forget — the Israelis for Peace vigil marking two years since the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023. Hundreds gathered — Israelis, Palestinians, Jews, Arabs, Americans — huddled together on folding chairs in Union Square in chilly weather, under an open sky. As part of a wide-ranging lineup, from the stage, I read a message from Liat Atzili, whose husband Aviv was killed that day; a short, piercing story by Etgar Keret; and a poem by Mahmoud Darwish that hung in the air like a spell.

And there was Mamdani again, sitting quietly in the front row next to Lander. He didn’t take the microphone. He didn’t try to center the event on himself. He was just listening. Bearing witness. His presence wasn’t performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up. That’s when it hit me: This is what safety looks like. Not fences or slogans, not solidarity-as-branding — but the radical act of standing with people in pain, without needing to own or edit it.

A recent poll showed that 43% of Jewish New Yorkers plan to support Mamdani — and among those under 44, that number climbs to 67%. That data tells me what I felt that night wasn’t isolated. It’s a generational shift: Younger Jews — and Israelis like me — no longer see solidarity with Palestinians as a threat, but as a responsibility.

Because despite what the right-wing Israeli government and media want us to believe, we — Jews, Israelis, people who still believe in equality — are not in danger from Zohran Mamdani because he is critical of Israel. We’re endangered, instead, by the machinery of fear that tries to convince us that justice is a threat, that empathy is betrayal, that solidarity is naïve.

So let’s ask honestly: What is so terrifying about Zohran Mamdani? That he condemns Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people? That he grieved — publicly and unapologetically — over the catastrophe in Gaza? That he refuses to conflate the safety of American Jews with unquestioned support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?

For me, as an Israeli-American who is committed enough to Israel to fight endlessly for it to be just and equal, that’s not frightening — it’s hopeful. Having mayors and public leaders who refuse to give Kahanists or corrupt war criminals a free pass is good for Jews.

That’s Jewish struggle too.

Key points regarding Jews influencing US policy:

<><>Lobbying Efforts: Pro-Israel lobbying groups, such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), are widely considered to be among the most influential single-issue lobbying organizations in the U.S.

<><>Multiple Jewish lobbies utilize plentiful financial resources (that some suggest are foreign aid tax dollars), to support candidates and influence legislation related to US-Israel relations and MidEast policy.

<><>Within the American Jewish community, a majority generally identify as liberal and Democratic. There are numerous Jewish organizations advocating for a variety of stances on US policy towards Israel, including those that are highly critical of the Israeli government’s actions, demonstrating that no single “Jewish lobby” speaks for the entire community.

<><>Academic studies acknowledge the significant and effective influence of the pro-Israel lobby on specific U.S. foreign policy issues, particularly concerning US taxpayers funding of Israel and who expend large campaign contributions too US candidates to advance their causes.

<><>Jewish “Experts” on antisemitism insist that accusations of “Jewish control” of media, banks, and government oversimplify complex political processes and are employed to decrease the involvement of Jewish citizens in public life.

<><>Specific pro-Israel lobbying groups have demonstrable influence on U.S. policy regarding the Middle East. That “Jews” as a collective group secretly control the US government is always termed by Jews as an “antisemitic conspiracy theory” in the vain hope that labeling critics anti-semites might effectively silence critics.