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Bruce Raben's avatar

Performative theatre 🎭. Really gross pandering

EKB ✡️ 🕎 🇺🇸's avatar

He's not tough. He's a sicko creepy creep, like all Jew hating bottom feeders. Maybe he should actually work on being mayor of NYC for awhile. The job he was elected to do. There are now homeless encampments, flooding throughout the City, and of course a rise in antisemitic hate crimes -but I think he enjoys that last one. The reality is that he never wanted to run the City. He has no idea what a real job is. He was elected simply because he is a Jew-hating pig.

Gilda Joffe's avatar

Disgusting, puny, vile, serpentine Jew hater.

It was so easy to see…Any “Jew” who voted for him has absolutely no conception of history, morality and integrity and of course knows absolutely nothing about Israel. But that evaluation could also be said about anyone who voted for him. Good luck to those abhorrent idiots who have just slit their own throats.

james rose's avatar

Stop calling it weird. That makes it sound like it's just misplaced attention.

His focus on Israel and Jews is purposeful, intended to divide and inflame politically. He is a racist. Full stop.

David S. Levine's avatar

Your observation are correct but you left out one other objective of his...distraction from the inhumane activities and goals the Islamic jihad movement he supports.

Danny Rosenstein's avatar

Mamdani has an obsession with the Israel the same way Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas do. Like them, the vilification, isolation and destruction of Israel is his defining belief and raison d’etre.

B.'s avatar

"[Zohran Mamdani] made a specific promise to use the police power of New York City to seize a foreign head of government, while completely (and probably knowingly) lacking the authority to do so."

The man is a menace. I wish someone had the power to arrest and deport him: He truly hates the United States. His aim is to bring down New York City, the capital of capitalism, as surely as his co-religionists brought down our Twin Towers.

If people didn't know it before, they just need to listen to his July Fourth oratory.

Arnon Rubinstein's avatar

I do not think it is weird - it is a simple strategy that just works for him, so he sticks to it as the job itself is way too big for him, he is completely underqualified.

Frederick Tatala's avatar

Vanessa, you're absolutely right.

I think, in the end, Mamdani's political future won't be decided by his views on Israel. It will be decided by the economy. If his socialist policies make New York less affordable, less safe, or less prosperous, voters will eventually respond. If they don't, he survives.

As someone who grew up in New York, I'm still stunned that he was elected at all. Even more surprising is that so many Jews voted for him. That tells me the issue is much bigger than Israel.

Unfortunately, I don't think Jews will have much influence over New York's political direction. The economy will. If New Yorkers discover there really is no such thing as "easy street," they'll demand a different course.

Another excellent article.

Azalea lady's avatar

It was a performative behavior that is IMO somehow part of a larger strategy related to his membership in DSA. Yesterday in The Free Press there was an article about the platform of DSA. Among other things DSA wants to get rid of Congress, law enforcement, and even the military. Of course our ally Israel would be cut off. They want to tear things down and that's what he is trying to do.

j p m's avatar

We used to have Jewish American politicians who would " take on" a Jew hater like this particular Islamist.

Lior Uziel's avatar

All eyes on Netanyahoo

All eyes on Gaza

All eyes on whatever evasion we can put to make people's eyes averted

Frans Buijs's avatar

Mamdani is a bit like Trump then. Real government is boring, talking nonsense is more fun.

ECB's avatar

NY used to produce great leaders. Now look what we’re stuck with…

Kip 🇺🇸🇮🇱🟦's avatar

"New Yorkers elected a mayor, and they would be best off if he stayed in his lane."

Yes, they would, but that's not why Mamdani ran and was elected. He is the mayor for the express purpose of destroying the city with socialist/communist "policies," and the majority of the electorate who voted him in are unserious morons. Look at any "street interview" video on YouTube. Mamdani supporters are morons, to a degree it's hard to fathom until you really listen to them.

Michelle Jacobson's avatar

The chaos continues to keep us occupied and far away from the real issues regarding funding to Israel. This is what I've read via AJC. "U.S.-Israel relationship must be understood as advancing American interests, not as a relationship defined by Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Trump, or any one leader. Suggesting otherwise, whether intentionally or not, furthers the harmful narrative that supporting Israel is contradictory to America’s interests and plays into a nefarious secret agenda, when in fact, a strong U.S.-Israel partnership makes both countries more secure. First, it’s important to know that America’s annual support for Israel – nearly $4 billion – represents less than 0.00001% of U.S. federal spending. Last year, assistance to Israel accounted for just five percent of America’s foreign aid spending."