Mamdani’s Victory Spotlights a Deepening Rupture Among U.S. Jews

The New York Times ^ | June 25, 2025, 5:49 p.m. ET | Katie Glueck and Lisa Lerer

[E. Pluribus Unum]

While Zohran Mamdani won over some Jewish supporters, other Jewish Democrats suggested that concerns about their community’s safety are being dismissed in a movement and a city they helped build.

New York’s annual parade celebrating Israel has been a standard stop for the state’s politicians for the last 60 years, drawing in governors, senators and every mayor since Robert F. Wagner to pay their respects to the Jewish community.

Now, as Israel’s standing in the United States has fallen precipitously since the Gaza war, New York City Democrats have nominated a mayoral candidate who does not shy away from his record of anti-Israel activism, underlining an extraordinary departure from past mayors and from current Democratic leadership in Washington.

Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the city with the largest Jewish population in the world offered the starkest evidence yet that outspoken opposition to Israel and its government — and even questioning its existence as a Jewish state — is increasingly acceptable to broader swaths of the party, even in areas where pro-Israel Jews have long been a bedrock part of the Democratic coalition.

Some surveys showed Mr. Mamdani winning as many as one in five Jewish Democrats, with supporters including Brad Lander, the city’s comptroller, who also ran for mayor and encouraged his supporters to back Mr. Mamdani through a cross-endorsement. And on Wednesday, Representative Jerrold Nadler, one of the city’s most prominent Jewish leaders, endorsed Mr. Mamdani, saying they would work together “to fight against all bigotry and hate.”

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[DIRTYSECRET]

They’re ph—ked up ok?

[dennisw]

NYC Jews there -— This article says one out of five Jewish Democrats voted for Mandani. Means few Jews are loony left enough to vote for this bad news Mohammedan clown. Some sanity kicks in.

[BobL]

Hard to feel sorry for the Jews there if they support someone who’s essentially calling for Holocaust 2.0.

[nwrep]

The NYT is overstating the Jewish split over him.

[DIRTYSECRET]

**Means few Jews are loony left enough to vote for this bad news Mohammedan clown. Some sanity kicks in.**

I’d blame them all.

[Ann Archy]

Many Jews seem to be COMMUNISTS! ala Bernie Sanders!!

[Da Coyote]

A Jewish DemocRAT is as great an enemy to Jews and Israel as is a Muslim. Perhaps greater.

[HockeyPop]

“ **Means few Jews are loony left enough to vote for this bad news Mohammedan clown. Some sanity kicks in.** I’d blame them all.”

Blame them all? Really?

[Tzimisce]

Didn’t Hitler and the Nazis carry like 30-35% of the Jew vote?

[escapefromboston]

Liberal new york jews will keep what they have sowed.

[ltc8k6]

20% sounds like a lot to me, especially when it’s voting against your own religion.

[EliRoom8]

20% sounds like a lot to me, especially when it’s voting against your own religion.

Much like the liberals in the so-called "Reformed" camp of Christianity.

[Racketeer]

What are they complaining about? They helped elect Barry Soetero, a/k/a Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Barry is as radical as they come!!

[SunkenCiv]

Mamdani's Victory Spotlights a Deepening Rupture Among U.S. Jews Lifelong Supporters of the Demagogic Party

[100%FEDUP]

You would be surprised how many jews in NY feel no connection whatsoever to Israel.

[chopperk]

If he Jews of NYC are smart they will determine his collusion with Iran, Qatar and sleeper cells in the Eastern USA.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

One in five Jewish voters voted for Mamdani.

They must have a death wish.

Have they forgotten how, not that long ago, people such as Mamdani threatened Jewish students in their own city, including some who took refuge in the library at Columbia University, only to be mockingly told to hide in the attic, after the manner of Anne Frank?

I teach at a community college that has a huge Arab Muslim population. I sat through a presentation of the Arab Student Association earlier this year. When they talk about “Palestine free from the river to the sea” they mean that literally. I didn’t hear a peep about a “two-state solution.” They refer to the Israeli government as “Zionist occupation” and they identify that occupation as starting in 1948, thus challenging the very existence and legitimacy of the State of Israel. I am sure these students, as well as some faculty who were there and supported the cause — leftists and liberals all — would be astounded to find out how their rhetoric echoes that of the rankest neo-Nazis. Or, maybe not.

If I, a simple old Christian gentleman, know this, and am alarmed by it, how is it that a considerable number of Jews don’t get it?

[Dave911]

Any Jew who voted for this guy is a complete moron!

[ckilmer]

Blame them all? Really?
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The rapid demographic and cultural shift of NYC from 1990-2020 most closely resembles the the demographic and cultural shift in in NYC between 1890-1920.

Personally, I view this with a profound sadness as to what it portends for the USA in the next century.