Posted on 11/06/2025 7:03:16 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech in the New York mayoral race was carried live on Israeli television and radio, a sign of the deep concern in the Jewish state about the next leader of the city with the world’s largest population of Jews.
“The Big Apple has fallen,” Avigdor Liberman, the leader of a right-wing opposition party and former foreign minister, said through a spokesman. He urged “New York Jews who want to survive” to emigrate “to where they belong — the land of Israel.”
Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, was more sober, vowing in a post on social media to work with New York’s Jewish leaders “to ensure their security and well-being.”
Among Palestinians, by contrast, the triumph by the 34-year-old Mr. Mamdani, who will become New York’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor, was hailed as a milestone in multiple ways. Some saw a welcome generational shift in American public opinion — one that might even encourage mainstream Democrats to speak out against Israel and in support of the Palestinians without fear that it could sink their careers.
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Is he kidding? Those NY Jews VOTED for Madcommie! They WANT to be abused! NY Jews have a massive case of Stockholm syndrome, they are mentally insane
One example.......
There’s no truth to the rumor that Mamdani referred to the taxpayers in New York as kulaks.
A lot of American Jews supported importing the 3rd world so I guess they got what they wanted
The vast majority of self described Jews in New York are in fact JINO’s. They do not attend a synagogue, they are atheist, and more likely worship the democrat party and money.
Just take a look at Joy Behar for a perfect example of a New York City self-hating Jew. And there are hundreds of thousands of them just like her. /spit
In Israel?!
How about in the US?
And when does the NYT even pretend to care about Israel
I do their puzzles, Sunday crosswords, acrostics, daily puzzles, spelling Bee, etc
It is a regular indoctrination of Muslim terms. Regularly. Not occasionally. By the way
Years ago a Westchester lady of prominence, education, religiosity and old wealth, called the NYT a Muslim rag
No argument
Joy Behar is Italian-Catholic as is Andrew Cuomo.
I think Israelis as well as American Jews find some attitudes towards them on the part of the American right, patronizing.
didn’t this idiot mayor-elect threaten Bibi with arrest if he set foot in New Yorkistan City?
“Is he kidding? Those NY Jews VOTED for Madcommie! They WANT to be abused! NY Jews have a massive case of Stockholm syndrome, they are mentally insane”
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There’s nothing quite like painting with too broad of a brush, is there? One of the things that I have been attracted to here at FR for the last 25 years has been the fact that, for the most part, contributors tend to be more factual and less emotion-driven than those on the left side of the political spectrum. However, there are exceptions, and you (in this post, at least) are definitely one of them.
The simple fact is that SOME Jews in NYC voted for this Communist Moslem, but most did not. The ones that voted for him are very much like the non-Jews who voted for him, predominantly younger ones who don’t know a damned thing about history (or care, for that matter), and who have been more thoroughly indoctrinated than the older ones. But left-wing Jews did not elect this guy by themselves, not even close. I read polling data yesterday, which indicated that 80% of women under age 30 voted for this guy, as did more than 60% of those born outside of the US. I didn’t see specific data regarding minorities, but I can imagine (based on their voting patterns) that they voted overwhelmingly for him (though, as with probably every single group you can name, I am reasonably certain that younger people voted in far higher percentages for him than the older and somewhat wiser members of any particular group).
The problem isn’t left-wing New York Jews (though I despise their politics, and oftentimes them as people), it is NYC itself. That place has been overwhelmingly liberal or leftist for my entire life (and I am in my mid 60’s), and for a long time before that. But don’t paint with too broad of a brush, don’t be like those on the left and react emotionally. I am only one example of someone who was born in New York City (but never lived there), who is Jewish, and who is also extremely conservative. So were my parents, who were born and raised in New York City. So was one of my grandfathers, who barely escaped Communism in Russia, and who’s every political statement indicated his deep and abiding hatred for the policies and people on the left. Whether you are Jewish or not, I am probably not going too far out on a limb in assuming that you have some relatives who are quite Liberal or leftist, and would have voted for this guy if they lived there, just because this country is pretty much divided right down the middle, and that’s what the odds would seem to indicate. Put your prejudices away and start dealing with facts.
Cheney was being entirely practical.....he liked his position.
He knew that woe be to those pols who did not “like” Israel.
Avigdor Liberman must be non compis mentis.....the former Israeli foreign minister urged
“New York Jews who want to survive” to emigrate “to where they belong — the land of Israel.”
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 us. That’s our struggle too.
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New York City is the modern day Babylon...
Why doesn’t Israel pull its money out of NY?
His transition team is all female Columbia professors. United Way. Former DeBlassio and Biden radicals. Lina Khan radical FTC…..
Here are the numbers on the Jewish vote:
Are one third of Jews in NYC anti-semitic?
That is why name calling gets silly—on the right and left.
I guess those accolades had nothing to do with the upcoming election. Good grief..how gullible can people be?
I knew a Jewish family whose Grandma got out of Nazi Germany just in time, the only member of their family to survive those terrible years. America was a safe place for Jews at that time. You would never see antisemitic incidents of today’s nature.
New York’s Jews belong in New York!
Mamdani belongs in Uganda—or Pakistan, etc.
“ Is he kidding? Those NY Jews VOTED for Madcommie! “
Actually, the Jewish vote was the most anti-Mamdani block in NYC.
Depending on what exit poll you look at, Jewish vote went 15% to 30% to Mamdani compared to the overall 52% of voters for Mamdani.
To give you more specifics, the most leftist poll (from NYT/Siena/CNN) broke it out like this:
All voters: Mamdani: 50%
All Jewish voters: Mamdani: 33%
All voters, under 45 yo Mamdani 68%
Jewish voters, under 45yo Mamdani 49%
Orthodox: Mamdani 19%
Secular: Mamdani 41%
Borough Park (96% Jewish) Cuomo 96%
So, no, “the Jews” didn’t elect Mamdani. We did.
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