Zohran Mamdani and the Normalization of Jew Hatred and Jihad

By Pamela Geller |

Photo by Bingjiefu He – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia

I don’t have a link for this. The intrepid Paul Schnee sent this on after seeing it on his Facebook page. It’s very good.

Related: ‘Zohran Mamdani intern calls for JIHAD against America‘

THE HARBINGER – ZOHRAN MAMDANI AND THE NORMALIZATION OF JEW-HATRED

By Sam Abady:

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Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda which once had a large expatriate Indian community. They were expelled by Idi Amin in August 1972.

Mamdani, like Amin, is Muslim. His critics on the right attack him for that fact alone. This is unacceptable. It reduces all Muslims to a one-size-fits-all status. There is nothing wrong with having a Muslim mayor — even in America’s most Jewish city. It depends entirely on his ideology and the Muslim groups he embraces.

A meme circulated on social media depicts the Statue of Liberty covered in a burqa after Mamdani won the Democratic primary. He is not an ideological Islamist per se. Instead, he embraces Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. as part of the “progressive” red-green alliance to advance the war on the Jews and Jewish state. Progressives are the connective tissue between terrorist ideology and the new Democratic Party. Mamdani and his Democratic Socialists are not the warhead of antisemitism, but instead, its delivery system. He embraces the pro-terror slogans of those who seek to wipe out the Jews.

Mamdani founded the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at his alma mater, Bowdoin College. SJP is a Hamas front group. Hamas is an Islamist group that seeks the genocide of Jews the world over. Newspapers in India report that Pakistan’s ISI security service provided social media support for Mamdani’s campaign.

Mamdani also openly supports Marwan Bargouti’s BDS (Boycott, Diverst, Sanction) movement which seeks the elimination of Israel. Mamdani spouts the slogans of the anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist, Israel-bashing “globalize the intifada” radical left. For two years, we’ve watched his ilk rampage across college campuses in pursuant of the tentifada jihad. They are the new Hitlerjungen who worship the Arab Fuhrers, Yasser Arafat, Yahya Sinwar, Hassan Nasrallah, et al. as great liberators, just as German youth worshipped Hitler as the great liberator of Germany. Mamdani energized them on Tik Tok for his campaign.

It began right after October 7, 2023, when Mamdani blamed Israelis for Arab atrocities against them. He not only refused to condemn Hamas atrocities and Hezbollah’s October 8th rocket attack on Jewish civilians, he blamed the Jews, rationalizing Palestinian and Lebanese terrorism was caused by “the occupation” and stressed the need to “dismantle apartheid,” a memetic statement for “dismantle Israel.”

Any decent person, regardless of his take on the so-called Israeli-Palestinian “conflict,” should be unambiguous in condemning the mass slaughter, rape, burning alive and kidnapping of Jews. Instead, Mamdani condemned “Netanyahu’s declaration of war [and] the Israeli government’s decision to cut electricity to Gaza” and parroted risible Palestinian propaganda that Israel’s military response is a “genocide.”

Mamdani appeared on the FYPod show on “The Bulwark.” Co-host Tim Miller asked Mamdani if he felt “uncomfortable” with protesters chanting, “globalize the intifada” and “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free (of Jews).” Mamdani made it clear he endorses Palestinian terrorism, ethnic cleansing of Jews, and genocidal war when he quibbled over interpretations of those unambiguous slogans and said his job was not to police language. In other words, he is not uncomfortable with slogans that represent murderous antisemitism, he is only uncomfortable with condemning such hateful incendiary rhetoric.

Harvard’s former president, Larry Summers, said, “I am profoundly alarmed about the future of the [Democratic Party] and the country by yesterday’s NYC anointment of a candidate who failed to disavow a ‘globalize the intifada’ slogan ….”

Mamdani is also a textbook child of privilege. His Harvard-educated mother, Mira Nair, is an Academy Award–nominated filmmaker and an avowed Israel-hater. Her second husband, Mahmood Mamdani, is a Columbia anthropology professor who teaches so-called “anti-colonialism studies,” a dog whistle for anti-Zionist studies. Mamdani is a blend of the Ivy League and Hollywood, of radical academia and progressive show-business privilege. He once took a shot at being a rapper and recorded a paen to the “Holy Land Five” convicted of providing “material support for terrorism” to Hamas.

Currently, he is a New York State Assemblyman from Queens. His overwhelming legislative preoccupation was anti-Zionism. He derided the Assembly as a “bastion of Zionist thought.”

I maintain that leftist Jew-hatred is more dangerous than openly rightist Jew-hatred or nakedly jihadist Jew-hatred because it wraps itself in social virtue. More and more, it is becoming seamlessly absorbed into the Democratic Party. Mamdani knows he can’t sell “death to the Jews” Islamism to New York’s liberal masses, so he camouflages his Israel-hatred brand of antisemitism as a virtuous embrace of the downtrodden.

Oxford-educated Palestinian propagandist and former Al Jazeera and MSNBC host, Mehdi Hasan, interviewed Mamdani and asked whether he would “welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu to New York City,” given that the U.S. is not a signatory to the Rome Statute which created the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002.

Mamdani responded unequivocally: “No. As mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. This is a city that our values are in line with international law. It’s time that our actions are also.”

When it was pointed out that Israel, too, is not a signatory to the ICC, Mamdani doubled down: “It’s time that we actually step up and make clear what we are willing to do to showcase the leadership that is sorely missing in the federal administration.” That was a reference to Donald Trump’s executive order signed in February sanctioning the ICC for its arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant.

The New York City mayor has no power to issue arrest warrants. Only a court can do that. Mamdani would need to go to federal court to act on behalf of the ICC. No federal court would grant his request, given the U.S. is not a signatory to the Rome Statute and Netanyahu enjoys diplomatic immunity from arrest as a foreign leader.

Mamdani knows this. Yet, he uses airtime to promote his faux power to arrest Netanyahu. That speaks volumes about who he is at his core and where his priorities lie.

There are 3,081,389 registered Democrats in the five counties of New York City. Mamdani won the primary with 432,305 votes, i.e., 14% of registered Democrats. It’s no accident black voters rejected him for the tainted Andrew Cuomo. If Cuomo runs as an Independent, he and incumbent Eric Adams will split the anti-Mamdani Democratic vote. Republican Curtis Sliwa, founder of the vigilante Guardian Angels group, is not a serious candidate. Democrats outregister Republicans nearly 7-1 in New York City. In other words, by winning the primary, Mamdani almost assuredly will win the general election and become Mayor.

There are stirrings within the Orthodox Jewish community to evacuate Brooklyn to upstate enclaves. Mamdani’s biggest win was in Brooklyn where the majority of New York City’s 100,000 Arabs are concentrated. Some are exulting on social media that Mamdani will drive the Hasidim from Brooklyn once and for all.

New York’s 2025 budget is $111.6 billion. It has a government workforce of nearly 300,000.

As a boy in the Jim Crow South, I witnessed the effects of Klansmen who were elected to public office. It put an official imprimatur on anti-black racism. If Mamdani becomes Mayor of the nation’s largest city — with a budget and workforce larger than that of 47 states — it will put an official imprimatur on anti-Jewish racism.

In sum, the future looks bleak.

 

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  1. By the way, I just re-read the above Pamela Geller article and I think it is terrific. I found it again by googling – in Google or some other major search engine, NOT Israpundit which has a near useless search function – Israpundit Jews Mayor – or something like that. I even found specific comments that way. I have found that that is often the case with internal search engines on sites. They tend to turn up irrelevant entries and are agonizingly slow. I do make an effort to find a relevant Israpundit article/thread for my comments rather than overburdening Chit Chat which which will automatically block too many posts or even posts that look too similar, in any case. So, it won’t allow me to write, “@ Peloni Post disappeared”. I have to find synonyms for “disappeared”. 😀

    And there are people who look forward to self-driving cars. Though, on the other hand, it is true that some AI systems are more sophisticated – and therefore expensive – than others, major search engines like Google are free. I wonder how they pay for that. I suppose I could “Google “it . 😀

  2. Zohran Mamdani Overwhelmingly Unpopular With New York City Jews, New Poll Finds

    “A new Siena College poll shows Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani facing an overwhelming backlash from Jewish voters in New York City, with a staggering 75 percent holding an unfavorable opinion of the Queens Democrat and just 15 percent viewing him favorably….”

    https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/12/zohran-mamdani-overwhelmingly-unpopular-new-york-city-jews-new-poll-finds/

    But this misleading headline touting the poll of a partisan pro-Mamdani Progressive think tank is in Newsweek which is usually very pro-Israel

    “Zohran Mamdani Scores 17-Point Lead with Jewish Voters in NYC Mayoral Race”

    “The survey from Zenith Research and Public Progress Solutions found that Mamdani’s support among Jewish voters surpassed all other candidates, reflecting a complex realignment in the wake of his decisive victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary…”

    https://www.newsweek.com/zohran-mamdani-has-17-point-jewish-voter-mayoral-race-lead-2106305

    “AI Overview

    +4
    Zenith Research and Public Progress Solutions is a collaboration between two entities: Zenith Research (led by Adam Carlson) and Public Progress Solutions (led by Amit Singh Bagga).
    Focus and methodology
    Polling and Public Opinion Research: They conduct polls on various topics, particularly focusing on New York City politics.
    Detailed Demographic Analysis: They are noted for their approach to polling that includes drilling down into demographics such as national origin and religious denomination.
    Potential Progressive Alignment: Their work has been cited in relation to the NYC mayoral race and the performance of a Democratic candidate, Zohran Mamdani, suggesting a potential alignment with progressive values and candidates.
    Key individuals
    Adam Carlson: Founder and partner of Zenith Research.
    Amit Singh Bagga: Founder and principal of Public Progress Solutions and a veteran of various government roles.

    [It’s important to note that while they are associated with progressive political ideas, particularly in the context of the NYC mayoral race and Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, the available information doesn’t definitively label them solely as a “Progressive Think Tank” in the traditional sense, but rather as a research and solutions-oriented entity whose work appears to align with and potentially support progressive causes and candidates.] “

    [sic] 😀 my brackets on last paragraph for emphasis.

  4. “Mamdani, like Amin, is Muslim. His critics on the right attack him for that fact alone. This is unacceptable. It reduces all Muslims to a one-size-fits-all status. There is nothing wrong with having a Muslim mayor …”
    WRONG!! It IS acceptable because being a Muslim involves a set of beliefs derived from the Koran which are inherently and explicitly filled with Jew-hatred. It is not a coincidence that Mamdani is supported by the Muslim community including that community’s most prominent spokesman, The Council on American Islamic Relations. It is not a coincidence that Mandani was a leader of Students for Justice in Palestine which is a Muslim organization sponsored by the pro-Hamas American Muslims for Palestine.
    Unless a Muslim candidate for political office explicitly and publicly denounces and rejects the Koran and the specific antisemitic and jihadist passages in the Koran, that Muslim should never be elected to office!

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  6. By the way, I just suddenly wondered about Curtis Sliwa – what does this guy do for a living? And I got: “politician, actor, radio personality, talk show host”

    My comment: Well, that’s a relief. For a moment there, I was concerned.

    “Norton: Can I join your business venture?
    Ralph: No, you wouldn’t understand the proper exploitation.
    Norton; Waddya mean, I wouldn’t understand the proper exploitation. I know all about it. I been exploited all my life.” ”

    – The Honeymooners.

  7. By contrast:, this Churchillian speech by Mayor Eric Adams:

    ‘Stay and fight,’ NYC mayor tells Jews tempted to flee city from Mamdani
    “We will be the generation to push back against hate,” Eric Adams told attendees at a Jewish heritage celebration at Gracie Mansion.
    VITA FELLIG

    July 10, 2025 / JNS)
    Jewish New Yorkers should stand their ground and fight for their city rather than leave in response to state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic primary win, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a Jewish heritage celebration at Gracie Mansion in Manhattan.

    “You have the right to be in the city and anywhere in this country,” Adams told an audience of about 1,000 at the Tuesday night event on the mansion grounds in Carl Schurz Park. “History has shown that through time, you often have to find yourself leaving, fleeing.”

    The celebration, typically held in May for Jewish Heritage Month, was rained out and rescheduled for the sweltering July evening, amid a citywide heatwave advisory.

    “From the days of Moses to fleeing Spain when Christopher Columbus was leaving to the days of living in the Jewish quarters in Rome to the days of the Holocaust, you found yourself constantly leaving,” Adams told attendees.

    Particularly after the Democratic primary for mayor, Adams, who is running for reelection, said that he has heard “many of my Jewish brothers and sisters saying they’re leaving.”

    I’m saying to you, we will run no more. We will stay and fight for the city that we love,” he told attendees. “We will not be the generation of fleeing and of leaving. We will be the generation to push back against hate. That’s what we must be.”

    Adams likened rising antisemitism in New York City to the fabled frog, which is said to boil in water without realizing if the temperature is only increased a small amount at a time. (Although the notion is not scientific, Adams said he recalled it as a science experiment from elementary school.)

    Eric Adams Jewish event
    New York City Mayor Eric Adams hosts a Jewish heritage reception at Gracie Mansion, July 8, 2025. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.
    “We have turned the antisemitism degree up one degree at a time, and many of us have stood there and watched their hatred boil our cities and our country and even in the international community,” he said.

    “The first thing we must acknowledge is that the heat of antisemitism has gotten too hot in our country, and it cannot continue to rise in degrees in our city where we have the largest Jewish population outside of Israel,” he told attendees.

    “So I’m here to turn off the flame, to get the frog out of the pot and make sure that we don’t allow hate to live in our city in any form and in any way,” he said.

    ‘Not just words’

    Adams, who faces a crowded field in November’s mayoral election, received chants of “four more years” from the crowd.

    Jessica Tish, the New York City police commissioner who is Jewish, praised her boss and compared him to the biblical figure of Balaam, a gentile prophet who ends up blessing the Jews, from this week’s Torah portion. (It seemed that she didn’t mean the comparison to extend to rabbinic traditions of calling Balaam “the evil one.”)

    “Mayor Adams did not grow up into the Jewish community, but to his core he understands it,” Tish told attendees. “He sees the richness of Jewish life, traditions, the sacred values and he honors it. Not just with words but with his actions.”

    Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel in New York, also addressed attendees. He denounced calls for a “global intifada” and said that shared American and Jewish values must be emphasized around the world.

    Jewish Heritage, NYC
    New York City Mayor Eric Adams hosts a Jewish heritage reception honoring Douglas Murray, Joseph Shamie, Victoria Zirkiev, and Shulem and Chavy Greenberg at Gracie Mansion, July 8, 2025. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.
    “The Jews of New York played a vital role in building this city, grounded in the shared values of the United States and the Jewish people: the values of freedom and democracy,” he said. “Throughout history, many enemies and leaders vowed to destroy the Jewish people. They are gone and we are still here.”

    “No one will preach to us, and no one will bring the Jewish people to their knees,” he said.

    Adams honored several attendees for their contributions to the Jewish community, including Joseph Shamie, Victoria Zirkiev, and Shulem and Chavy Greenberg on behalf of the charity Chesed 24/7, as well as the journalist Douglas Murray.

    Accepting an award at the event, Murray decried the rise in Jew-hatred in New York City after Oct. 7.

    “To have a man like Mayor Adams in New York, to continue to say what he’s said for so long—that we don’t have to tolerate intolerance, that we don’t have to give a free ride to people who would kill us, to be able to make a stand, that has had a huge impact on all New Yorkers, Jewish and non-Jewish,” Murray said.

    “What Mayor Adams realizes, as many of us do, is that the problem with antisemitism is that once a society plays with it, it will play with every other dark prejudice next,” he said.

    Among the guests braving the heat were Chassidim, Jewish social- media influencers and Upper East Side philanthropists, who ate barbecue surrounded by blooming blue hydrangeas. Israeli pop music played in the background.

    A tented section of the lawn, strung with lights and a disco ball, featured a bar serving red and white wine and Schweppes seltzer. (A bartender told JNS a “majority” was opting for the seltzer.)

    The event also featured a performance by Jewish singer Yoni Zigelboum, who sang “Am Yisrael Chai” as well as the aria “Nessun Dorma” from Puccini’s opera Turandot.

    https://www.jns.org/stay-and-fight-nyc-mayor-tells-jews-tempted-to-flee-city-from-mamdani/

    My comment: Speaking as a 4th generation Jewish New Yorker on my mother’s side — My mother, though secular and “New Age” when I knew her grew up in an observant Conservative and Orthodox Jewish 2 family house with her parents and great grandparents in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and a 2nd generation Jewish New Yorker on my father’s side – a Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor – a life-long Jewish Manhattanite, myself, from birth: Mayor Eric Adams gives me hope. I am grateful to him. And I enthusiastically endorse him. I will vote for him.

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  8. Agudath Israel of America, like all New Yorkers of good will, is outraged at current mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa’s recently publicized rant against Hassidic Jews. Our outrage is accompanied by great surprise, considering how Mr. Sliwa and the Guardian Angels group he founded have shown great concern for the safety of Jews.

    In his 2018 address to a Hudson Valley meeting for the Reform Party, Mr. Sliwa berated Hassidim, hurling age-old misrepresentations and distortions that those who hate Jews have used for centuries at contemporary Jewish residents of Hudson Valley counties, several of which have seen influxes of identifiable Orthodox Jews over recent years.

    Among much other ugliness, he expressed disdain for Jews who donate to political candidates. And derided “able-bodied men who study Torah and Talmud all day while “all they do is make babies like there’s no tomorrow.”

    Such Jews, he said, don’t vote like “normal Americans,” and have the audacity to access educational funding for their schools to which they are entitled.

    Aside from the misleading nature of Mr. Sliwa’s accusations, with violent attacks on Jews, like those in Monsey, Pittsburgh and Jersey City, still in recent memory, words like his only add fuel to the fire of Jew-hatred.

    Mr. Sliwa might find it helpful to speak to representatives of some of the Jews he so dislikes. Some education about Judaism’s priorities and how a true democracy functions would benefit him as he aims to lead a city known and celebrated for its ethnic and religious diversity. A repudiation of the offensive and fallacious words, and an apology – a sincere one – are in order.

    At the end of his diatribe, the then-talk show host touted his Jewish connections, as if that in some way justified his bigoted words, and, in an attempt to head off criticism of his hateful words, asserted that “The moment you bring this to somebody’s attention, you’re called an antisemite.”

    Mr. Sliwa, however, should know that when one parrots the traditional canards used by antisemites one is reasonably suspected of being among them.

    June 25th, 2021.

    He did apologize recently. Like Jesse Jackson. Remember “Hymie Town?”

    So, I guess it’s ok. (sarcasm).

    That was from his first run for mayor in 2021 – I somehow missed this at the time – This is his second. I’m sure it won’t be his last . He is polling at 7 to 16 percent.

    https://agudah.org/agudath-israel-expresses-outrage-at-curtis-sliwa-antisemitic-rant

  9. AI Overview

    +7
    In recent discussions, particularly surrounding the New York mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani, the son of Columbia University Professor Mahmood Mamdani, has stated that the Palestinian cause is “central to my identity, both in and out of politics”. He is known for his consistent and public association with the pro-Palestinian movement. It’s important to differentiate between Zohran Mamdani and his father, Mahmood Mamdani, who is a well-respected academic focusing on African and postcolonial studies, according to Columbia University.
    Zohran Mamdani’s stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has drawn considerable attention, particularly as he aims to become mayor of New York City, which has a large Jewish population. He has repeatedly articulated his support for the Palestinian people and their rights, while also condemning Israeli policies and actions in the region, according to The Jerusalem Post.
    While Zohran Mamdani acknowledges Israel’s right to exist, he qualifies this by emphasizing its responsibility to uphold international law and ensure equality for all citizens. He has also expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a non-violent means to pressure Israel to comply with international law, according to The New York Times. These positions have led to criticism from some Jewish groups and pro-Israel advocates, who view them as hostile toward Israel and potentially antisemitic. However, Mamdani has also received support and defense from other Jewish individuals and groups.

  10. Mamdani sponsors bill that would ban Jewish nonprofits from raising money for ZAKA, Hatzalah

    Mamdani introduced a bill to fine NY nonprofits for funding groups like ZAKA and Hatzalah linked to Israeli settlements.

    ByMATHILDA HELLER
    JULY 1, 2025 13:07
    Updated: JULY 1, 2025 16:22

    New York City mayoral primary winner Zohran Mamdani sponsored a bill that would force any New York synagogue or Jewish corporation that gives money to ZAKA, United Hatzalah, or the One Israel Fund to pay a fine of at least $1 million or risk a lawsuit.

    The bill, “Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act,” was introduced in the New York State Assembly by Mamdani in May 2023 with the aim of prohibiting New York not-for-profit corporations from engaging in unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity.

    Mamdani named the Central Fund of Israel as one of the main targets of the bill, known as the Not on Our Dime Act. However, the original version failed to advance after opposition from legislative leaders.

    The group behind the bill then began the process of expanding it in May 2024, before reintroducing it in February 2025, when it was referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions.

    The bill aims to amend the not-for-profit corporation law by adding a new section 116 that would “prohibit not-for-profit corporations from engaging in unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity.

    For the purposes of the bill, unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity means “aiding and abetting activity by the Israeli armed forces, the government of Israel, or citizen thereof” relating to “the unlawful transfer of Israeli civilians into occupied territory; acts of violence committed by Israeli citizens against protected persons living in occupied territory… destruction, damage, or vandalism of Palestinian property”; and “the appropriation, expropriation, seizure, destruction, demolition, dismantlement, or confiscation, in whole or in part, of private Palestinian land.”
    What is occupied territory?

    “Occupied territory” is considered to be any area within the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
    If the bill were to pass, nonprofit corporations, such as synagogues, would be prohibited from raising money for any organization or individual within the “Occupied territory.”

    Contravention of this would lead to a fine of no less than $1 million or civil action.

    The bill adds that funding for any West Bank organizations would be considered a violation of an organization’s nonprofit status and, therefore, could lead to its dissolution.

    The Not on Our Dime website cites several examples of NY-based charities raising money for settlers, settlements, or the IDF.

    According to the group, “The Long Island-based One Israel Fund raised over $2 million – what they typically raise in a year –in just the last few months of 2023, for thermal drones and surveillance cameras for settlers. One of the individuals, who appears in a video thanking the One Israel Fund for a drone, is named by president Biden’s sanction of violent settlers.”

    It also names NY-registered Israel Gives, which it says is conducting tax-deductible crowdfunding for Israeli armed forces, including those currently in Gaza.

    Moreover, “JGives, a US- and NY-registered nonprofit, has also run fundraising campaigns for the IDF, including a fundraiser for the Yahalom unit fighting in Gaza.”

    Aside from aiming to dissolve nonprofits that fund settler activity, the group said it wishes to “explicitly empower Palestinians who have been harmed by the violence funded by these New York-based charities to file a lawsuit against them.”

    https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-859627

  11. In sum, Netanyahu and Glick, have been in the propaganda battle run over

    They have scarcely a leg to stand on

    The whole Zionism has just fulfilled that which was predicted by Martin Sherman would happen

  12. @Adam

    Cuomo is not running since he lost the primary to Mamdani. Instead, he has endorsed him.

    Both Cuomo and Adams are in the race running as independents and are trying to get eachother to drop out.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/07/game-of-chicken-eric-adams-cuomo-want-each-other-out-of-nyc-mayoral-race-00441398

    Sliwa is definitely a serious candidate.

    While I like Sliwa, I don’t see him having any potential of defeating Mamdani in New York, especially not in a four way race. You and Sebastien are close to this contest, but I honestly don’t see Sliwa having a chance at winning this race. Just my own thoughts of course.

  13. Republican Curtis Sliwa, founder of the vigilante Guardian Angels group, is not a serious candidate.

    The guardian Angels were never vigilantes. They only sought to act as guards for passengers in New York subways. Vigilantes seek out and”arrest”” “try” and “punish” people whom they regard as dangerous criminals, without having the legal authority to do this. They set themselves up as an alternative justice system. The Guardian Angels never did any such thing. At most they might make a citizen’s arrest of someone whom the saw attempting to rob someone or molest a woman and hold him until the police arrived to arrest him. This is not being a vigilante.

    Sliwa is definitely a serious candidate. Definitely the best candidate in the field. He is the only one of the candidates not tainted by either corruption, racism or antisemitism.

    Cuomo is not running since he lost the primary to Mamdani. Instead, he has endorsed him.

    Eric Adams has been a mediocre mayor and there is some evidence that he, along with several of his appointees, are corrupt. A sort of twentieth century equivalend of Boss Treed. However, we should remember that Tweed did many good things for New York, He built Central Park, the Public Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, all mainstays of New York life ever since.

    Adams has not done any of the good things for New York that Tweed did. Still, he is not the threat to New Yorkers, especially Jewish New Yorkers, the Mamdani is. I will not be especially upset if he is reelected.

    • @Adam

      Cuomo is not running since he lost the primary to Mamdani. Instead, he has endorsed him.

      Both Cuomo and Adams are in the race running as independents and are trying to get eachother to drop out.
      https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/07/game-of-chicken-eric-adams-cuomo-want-each-other-out-of-nyc-mayoral-race-00441398

      Sliwa is definitely a serious candidate.

      While I like Sliwa, I don’t see him having any potential of defeating Mamdani in New York, especially not in a four way race. You and Sebastien are close to this contest, but I honestly don’t see Sliwa having a chance at winning this race. Just my own thoughts of course.

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    • Agudath Israel Expresses Outrage at Curtis Sliwa Antisemitic Rant

      June 25th, 2021

      Though he recently apologized.

      https://agudah.org/agudath-israel-expresses-outrage-at-curtis-sliwa-antisemitic-rant

      By contrast, the only thing Adams has been accused of is saying that the lies spread about him are an example of Hitler’s “Big Lie” tactic (which they are, and properly attributing its origin is not Holocaust denial.)

      Adams has done a lot to fight antisemitism (have you seen my posts about that? detailing them) and is running on a “fight antisemitism line”. What has Sliwa done other than mock both Adams and Cuomo for emphasizing it?

      For starters, he issued the same executive order as Mayor that Cuomo did as Governor banning the state from doing business with individuals or entities who advocate BDS!

      He inaugurated the first ever anywhere office to combat antisemitism

      He Inaugurated an Israel-New York City Economic Council.

      He gave a speech urging Jewish New Yorkers to stay and fight talking about all the times Jews had been forced to flee throughout history (though of course, he didn’t mention the fact that many of the neighborhoods that are currently black or latino were Jewish neighborhoods. The so-called “white flight’ of the ’50s was Jewish flight from crime and anti-semitism from people they had welcomed which is why those were the neightborhoods they moved to –to a large extent. But, he can’t say that, of course.)

      Police have been protecting Jewish communities under attack from Palestianist demonstrators, and ICE agents as well.

      I remember when the police stood down for 4 days leading to the lynching of Yankel Rosenbaum under Mayor David Dinkins in the early ’90s of the last century.

      Adams is the most pro-Jewish, pro-Israel mayor in my life-time, maybe ever – though to be fair, De Blasio expressed sympathy for Israel and visited there until his toxic base forced him to stand down.

      “Telling it Like it Wasn’t” (Crown Heights coverage as told by the NY Times reporter whose story was altered to fit the false equivalence narrative.)

      https://www.jta.org/2011/08/09/ny/telling-it-like-it-wasnt

      Sliwa claims his Guardian Angels were there protecting jews. Really? I never read anything about it at the time. They didn’t protect poor Yankel Rosenbaum from the lynch mob who were never brought to justice.

      Mind you, I skipped the Dem primary last time, knowing Adams would easily beat Sliwa who had the same program – because I knew that he could easily beat Sliwa who I wanted to win because of his animal rights plank – he even had an animal rights voting line to run on – but this is a different time and frankly, that’s not the most important issue now. Moreover, he has no chance of winning. And he really is not as good a candidate. He’s never run anything.

      Adams was Mayor – a very successful term in which crime and pan-handling are way down and the economy is thriving – Brooklyn Borough President – and he had a great relationship with the Chasidim who endorsed him – unlike Cuomo or Sliwa who harassed and discriminated against them with the police during the pandemic (though they have both apologized) – he was a state assemblyman – he was a police captain for cryin’ out loud.

      I say, “if it ain’t broke, DON’T FIX IT!”

      • Correction, Cuomo and De Blasio used the police against the Chasidim during the lockdown, giving leftwing demonstrators a short distance a way a pass. Sliwa has never had any power over anything. He just stuck his nose into a situation outside of the city in which Chasidic Jews were being discriminated against by a local township that didn’t want them to move in and who he sided with against them.

  14. Those of us who recall the ethnic Indian expulsion by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin will immediately recognize the irony that the son of Ugandan refugees should be running for NY mayor on a platform that’s a half step away from the tyranny that his parents were fortunate enough to escape thanks to the goodwill of Americans (and other western countries). That’s the thanks you get for magnanimity. It’s a teachable moment particularly for open border liberals. The world is coming full circle.