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

New York times ^ | 26th June 2025 | Katie Glueck

[Cronos]

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 appear likely to nominate 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 success 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.”

...Many younger New Yorkers from a range of backgrounds found Mr. Mamdani to be a fresh and exciting communicator. As the Muslim son of Indian émigrés who was himself born in Uganda, where his father grew up, he represented an inspiring new New York version of the American dream.

[Cronos]

“The Jewish community has seen time and again how violent rhetoric has transformed into actual violence, so for us it’s just deeply unsettling to have a mayoral candidate who condones and uses that language,” said Rabbi Diana Fersko, senior rabbi at the Village Temple, a Reform congregation in Manhattan

[JonPreston]

It’s likely 90% of this congregation voted for Ds all their lives

[chajin]

Now, as Israel’s standing in the United States has fallen precipitously since the Gaza war

Stopped reading here.

[no-to-illegals]

Lies and politics. Money and politics. 1 + 1 does not equal 2 ?

[RetiredArmy]

This guy is a communist. Pure and simple. No different from Mao, Stalin, Lenin. A pure, red blooded MUSLIM Communist, if such a thing were possible, he pulled it off.

[stanne]

“since the Gaza war,”

Does she mean since the concertgoers were mass murdered and taken hostage. I mean that’s not a war. She needs to get a dictionary

[stanne]

What do you think New Yorkers are. 40% are foreign borne. The younger people were educated in anti American institutions. Their millennials and their boomer parents didn’t educate them on the foundations of religion or our country.

[Varsity Flight]

“Crucify Him! crucify Him!”
The antichrist seed.

🐾📖

[sauropod]

...inspiring new New York version of the American Dream???”

[linMcHlp]

"What do you think New Yorkers are. 40% are foreign borne. The younger people were educated in anti American institutions. Their millennials and their boomer parents didn’t educate them on the foundations of religion or our country."

[stanne]

And I mean the city. Long Island. System island. Upstate are redder than my region in Texas. But the inner city voters- not the bringe and tumnnel people who just work there - but the city people

[Omnivore-Dan]

I do not think anyone who is not born in the U.S. to parents who are citizens of the U.S. should be a mayor, senator, congressman or governor, just as the president must be a U.S. born person. We do not need foreigners running our country or cities.

[linMcHlp]

bttt

[DeplorablePaul]

Right? Who does this sound like?

“As the Muslim son of Indian émigrés who was himself born in Uganda, where his father grew up, he represented an inspiring new New York version of the American dream.”

Obama. More like an American nightmare.

[Diogenesis]

[popdonnelly]

Many Jews prefer to be politically chic, rather than saving their skins.

[sauropod]

If past is prologue, I expect him to sell out NYC.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s success 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.

How is this evidence of a "divide" in the Jewish community? Which Jews support Mamdani? Which Jews question the existence of the Jewish state? Which Jews have said they don't mind or actually support Mamdani's anti-Semitic statements? All this article shows evidence of is that Jewish Democrats no longer hold the sway in the party that they once did, and that the party is being taken over by anti-Jewish radicals. But sadly, way too many Jews will continue to blindly vote "D" even though that fosters danger at home and abroad for Jews.

[Savage Beast]

"I've been telling her that Conservatives are not anti-semitic, that it's the Democrats who are. She's beginning to believe me."My Very Conservative Son
speaking of his beloved and beautiful Jewish wife
beloved of me also