The Marxist ideology animating NY’s new administration is just the opening act of inversion. The truly self-destructive attribute of the new New York is its galloping jihadism and anti-Israel hatred.
By DOUGLAS ALTABEF |
Mayor Mamdani. Screengrab via Youtube
For many native New Yorkers like myself, the City (as we always refer to New York) has become unrecognizable – not because of the look of the place, but because of the feel of the place. What was the celebrated melting pot, crossroads, and great amalgam of humanity has become a vitriolic, ideological, and resentful place.
New York was famous for being welcoming and accepting. If there was an ideology behind it, it was live and let live, and together we can all do pretty darn well.
The Marxist ideology animating the City’s new administration is just the opening act of inversion. The truly breathtakingly adverse and self-destructive attribute of the new New York is its galloping jihadism and sanctioned anti-Israel hatred, a fig leaf for classic antisemitism.
The love affair of the City with its Jewish residents is over. The spirit, character, humor, and creativity that moved seamlessly back and forth between Jews in New York and their fellow residents has morphed into resentment, suspicion, and a none-too-well-disguised desire to have Jews be quiet – or even better, be gone.
The Marxist ideology animating the City’s new administration is just the opening act of inversion. The truly breathtakingly adverse and self-destructive attribute of the new New York is its galloping jihadism and sanctioned anti-Israel hatred, a fig leaf for classic antisemitism.
The love affair of the City with its Jewish residents is over. The spirit, character, humor, and creativity that moved seamlessly back and forth between Jews in New York and their fellow residents has morphed into resentment, suspicion, and a none-too-well-disguised desire to have Jews be quiet – or even better, be gone.
The situation is disruptive and disconcerting for Jewish New Yorkers. But it is equally if not even more disturbing for those of us who ascertain the amazing fall from grace that has taken place in New York.
This is because we can sense that the travails of New York are nothing short of a shot across the bow for a malignancy that, unless forcefully encountered, is likely to spread throughout America.
The spirit of NY
All of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s hatred for Israel and, by extension, Jews, is matched by his hatred of America itself. It is a hatred of the values and the ethos that built and has sustained America. It is resentment for achievement, for success and for an accepting way of life.
The common thread in the resentment of Mamdani and his fellow travelers linking Jew hatred and capitalism hatred is the aversion to success. America has too much wealth, Israel has grown to be a successful, even dominant, power in its region, there are too many who have too much, and somehow they are preventing me and my cohorts from having what we deserve.
If New York can be personified through its mayors, the contrast between Mamdani and his predecessors is staggering. Picture Mamdani next to Ed Koch, Rudolph Giuliani, or Michael Bloomberg, and see the jaw-dropping differences.
Whatever their individual successes or drawbacks, these mayors loved their City and wanted all boats to rise in a rising tide. There was zero interest or desire to play New Yorkers off or against each other.
The City was greater than the sum of its parts, but the parts were what made New York so amazing.
In the short term and in a narrow sense, Mamdani may well get his desires to come true. New York will be increasingly Israel-phobic and Jew averse. Resentment is likely to become the driving spirit of the City.
Ironically, much as Bloomberg perceived, the Jews of New York will have choices, and many are likely to leave for more hospitable pastures elsewhere. The loser in this, of course, will be the City itself: poorer in substance and spirit.
As New York has always been both unique yet also emblematic among the cities of America, so too will its travail be increasingly seen elsewhere across the country. Marxism has always had its knee-jerk appeal, and when it is being espoused by a smiling and well-dressed spokesman who can dress it up as equity and fairness to millions on social media, it can spread until it collapses under the weight of its own unworkability.
New York is in for a rough ride, and if its malignancy is not seen for what it is, much of America might follow suit. This would be a self-inflicted wound of existential proportions.
I comfort myself with the recognition that New Yorkers have always been able to see through flim flam and hoo hah. I sure hope they can do this once again.
The writer is the chairman of the Board of Im Tirtzu and a director of the Israel Independence Fund.
**Originally posted on JPOST
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“It has been widely reported that about a third of New York’s Jews voted for Zohran Mamdani, which didn’t surprise me, because most of my oldest and closest friends in New York are in that 33%.”
My comment: a must read article but for this:
“I’m not sure they believed me when I told them that most Israelis I know are as eager as Mamdani to see Netanyahu in prison, but on the corruption charges for which he is on trial in Israel, not for the bogus and fashionable genocide allegation that New York’s mayor has repeated.”
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-903950
From today’s news: “Report: Bennett Residence Costs 3x Netanyahu’s”
https://www.c14news.com/article/1484470
Let’s not forget the reasons for the 2nd Amendment…
@Keelie
I wrote this joke 10 years ago:
“The Second Amendment says: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Constitution of United States of America 1789 (rev. 1992)
Anti-Gun advocates point out that the army and national guard meets the requirements for a well regulated Militia and say the the last part is just an add on.
Pro-Gun advocates point out that the term, “well-regulated” was used differently in the eighteenth century and referred to individual self-control, as well as to the point that the volunteer militia was formed in opposition to the official military which was used as a tool of oppression. Moreover, they say that the last part is the key and the preamble is the add-on.
Half the country is pro-gun and Half the country is anti-gun.
In whichever half, one of the factions is a minority, it will need to do lots of outreach (80’s euphemism for agit-prop..
Outreach requires funding.
Benefit concerts are a time-tested method of fundraising.
Bach is always popular.
If a single appellation for benefit concerts is used by both sides, it will gather resonance through public familiarity.
So how about:
“The Well Regulated Clavier.”
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier ]
Not hot air. Go, Go, Ben Gvir!
https://www.c14news.com/article/1486455
@Peloni Post disappeared
@Sebastien
I rescued it. Thanks.
Oh, New Yorkers have always been able to see through flim flam and hoo hah, have they?
Ever read Mencken’s Notes on Demorcracy?
Ever come across his famous quotation: ‘ Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.’ ?
And what about the Jewish voters who supported this gutter snipe? Did they see through flim flam?
My Jewish bretheren understand that self-professed higher morality supersedes everything else.
The above was to apply to pdale5’s comment…
Books on even elementry geography illustrate the “doughnut effect” as cities develop with those residents finding success moving out to the suburbs the further pro rata their success while the abadoned central housing is taken over by expanding commerce and light industry.
We might now see this phenomenon apply to the whole country with venerable cities like NY, Boston and Chicago abandoned not just by residents but big firms qv already Goldman Sachs and others moving to Austin, Texas etc This will leave not a rust belt but a WPB – waste paper basket as e-mail and couriers no longer require CBD’ s central business districts to work on top of each other.