Posted on 10/14/2025 9:29:21 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“New York has fallen! It’s over, I’m leaving.”
“Real New Yorkers stay and fight. You can’t just pick up and go.”
“It’s only going to get worse, not better.”
“I don’t need this negativity, things are bad enough already.”
Thus went the discussion in my WhatsApp group one recent weekend. After Oct. 7, I was added to a group chat of Jewish artists from around the world whose communities and industries were being overtaken by antisemitic hate. As creative fields quickly became hot spots for demonizing Israel and demanding ideological conformity, this group became a rare place to vent, exchange ideas, collaborate, and, sometimes, to argue.
That weekend’s debate splintered the group in a way I’d never seen before. The topic: Is New York still good for the Jews, or is it time to flee? Several admitted they no longer felt safe. Some had already left town; others were making plans. They spoke of losing jobs, being disinvited from friends’ birthdays, and even being assaulted at a party for wearing a Jewish star necklace. To them, New York had already “fallen.”
On the other side were those whose connection to the city runs stubbornly deep. For them, abandoning the refuge their ancestors found here was unthinkable. As emotions flared, thoughtful debate gave way to arguments about who counts as a “real” New Yorker and whether leaving was prescient or paranoid.
As I observed the back-and-forth, I couldn’t shake one thought: Were these the same conversations our grandparents and great-grandparents had in Europe during the pogroms or in 1930s Germany as fascism rose? Those who left Berlin before the Nazis took power must have seemed alarmist to their friends and family, who looked around at a progressive city where Jews were prominent in film, theater, music, science, and business, much as they are in New York City...
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There is safety in numbers. Jews, and wealthy business owners don’t have them. Leave. The islam democrats have already shown the violence they are willing to perpetrate to purge the infidels (religiously and politically). When they say they are coming for you, believe them. When Mamdani’s foot soldiers are given permission to riot, loot, and murder while NYPD sits back and watches, John Carpenter will say, “why didn’t I think of that?”
Mami and his associates such as Sarsour working with Hamas will give NYers something to work with. Its going to destroy NYC.
What is his married status?
Ah, I misread the post. I thought he was talking about NYC property values. My bad.
Mamdani said that when.he becomes mayor, he fully anticipates that Trump will send in National Guard troops to patrol the city. Should be interesting. Will the Mamdani adherents flee or be deported?
Build the wall now.
Here’s hoping you are presently an owner, and not about to enter the market.
Of course he did. He’s a Watermelon in drag.
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