Mayor Adams nailed it at a recent donor meeting, reportedly saying: “In our great city, with a large population of Jewish residents, one of the candidates running for mayor is spewing antisemitism.”
He plainly meant mega-left rival Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani — whose campaign, we’d add, is making hay off the hate.
Mamdani, like most contemporary leftist Jew-haters, conceals it under a veneer of concern for the Palestinians, but look at the facts.
Mere days after Hamas committed the unthinkable atrocities of Oct. 7, Mamdani got himself arrested protesting near Sen. Chuck Schumer’s house — to support Hamas by demanding a ceasefire.
Mamdani also backs the antisemitic Boycott Divest and Sanction movement, which singles out Israel for economic and cultural punishment while ignoring actual human-rights violators around the globe.
He introduced an Assembly bill aimed at giving the state attorney general the power to go after Jewish charities in New York if they engaged in “unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity.”
Plus, he made it clear in a recent interview that if he becomes mayor, thugs like those who spent a year assaulting, terrorizing and intimidating Jews on local campuses would get a free pass: “I’m not going to be sending the NYPD into an institution of higher education because students are occupying a building.”
Literally none of this does anything to help advance the cause of the Palestinians: To do that, Mamdani would need to demand the immediate and permanent disarmament of Hamas.
It does, however, give voters a very clear preview of what this failed rapper’s mayoralty would be like.
Nepo baby (and colonialist landowner) Mamdani’s stances seem deeply connected to the vile views of his famous parents.
His father, international academic powerhouse Mahmood Mamdani, has stated explicitly that Jews should not be allowed to have their own state in what he calls “historic Palestine.”
His mother, globally renowned filmmaker Mira Nair, allegedly tried to blacklist Gal Gadot from the Oscars. (She also very nicely let lil’ Zohran do the soundtrack for her movie “Queen of Katwe.”)
Mamdani, in short, got his “radicalism” straight from his privileged upbringing: It’s the family recipe for success.
No wonder he’s the first mayoral candidate this cycle to succeed at the ultimate insiders’ game of maxing out on taxpayer funds.
