From antisemitic politicians to grocery-store boycotts, the Left's fixation on the Jewish state is driving away voters, dividing its coalition, and turning "activism" into self-sabotage.
In New York City, Democratic socialists have talking points that convinced a little more than one fifth of eligible voters to elect Zohran Mamdani. These include bankrupting landlords, abolishing the NYPD, emptying the jails, taxing people out of their homes (because private property is an abomination), dumbing down schools even more than they are now, making sure every child knows what a drag queen is, providing free cross-sex hormones and surgeries to every confused adolescent who wants them, and -- free, free everything for everybody.
I exaggerate not.
A little less than one fifth of us voted against Mamdani. Three fifths of voters didn't vote at all. Mamdani is about to spend $5,000,000 on a platoon of Democratic socialists to do "community outreach."
He's endorsing and pushing anti-Jew Islamists on us for any number of political positions.
If New Yorkers do not rise up with a mighty roar and throw the little shithead out in four years, then I think our city, the glorious phoenix that's risen again and again despite any number of misfortunes over our long history, will finally be dead.
Its too late, the damage is done, New York the city is lost and should be flying the American flag upside down, they will not come back from this!
New York State will follow shortly as the residents lack the tenacity and the personal courage to stand up to their own idiot children and the islamic onslaught that is taking over right in front of them, if you are not willing to stand up and fight for what is yours, you will lose it and you will end up like the UK, Europe and Canada and Australia, all of home are now in serious internal worsening conflict due to their asinine political stupidity.
As a native New Yorker I MUST believe that NYC will overcome this absolute nightmare of a period in time. It’s not just the Jewish community that is suffering from this nightmare. In my heart I believe that New Yorkers will stand up to this abolition of democracy
It wont take that long for you to realize the damage that has been done, migration of support for Madummy will be huge over the next few years, many conservatives will leave, so sadly I think we are all going to see the complete collapse of the Empire state into a mirror of the burrow of OAC!
Malcolm, we can bat this around forever. We see the damage that's being done by Mamdani, but those of us New Yorkers who love our city aren't ready to call it a lost cause. We have come up from worse circumstances.
It tends to be those from elsewhere who seem to take pleasure in the thought of our collapse. I do not mean you, but certainly I am not mistaken in the tone of joy on the part of other commenters when they dismiss our city. It's a foul emotion to have.
NYC and New York state is the home to the largest Jewish community outside of Israel so believe me it is and always will be of great concern for me. For 70 years islamists have failed to destroy Israel in their quest to nullify the Jews, and while their terror attacks on the Jewish state, to do as much damage as is possible, their attack against Jew has gone multi national, NYC, Florida, Texas, LA, Toronto, Montreal, wherever there are large concentrations of Jews, islam has grown tremendously over the last 10 to 15 years, visible confrontations are becoming the new everyday normal, spinless politicians are standing back for fear of losing votes power and money, this problem is growing exponentially like a California wild fire out of control and nothing has been done to correct it, the vote can only do so much until it is to diluted to make a difference, that time is now, your once great city is lost, so is your state, 4 years form now its going to be a lot worse.
I agree with everything you say except your last sentiment. I didn't spend four hours cheering everyone from start to finish at the Israel Day parade yesterday for nothing.
The only way to be rid of Mamdani is if a broad coalition of people united around a moderate Republican-fusion candidate. It happened with LaGuardia and Giuliani. It can happen again - but I'm not hopeful.
Even so the DSA is with us for the foreseeable future.
Reporters for The New York Times and their peers are overrepresented in that one-fifth of voters. The Times writes about this the way that Tiger Beat once wrote about New Kids on the Block.
1) I hope you are right that the left is imploding.
2) I live in Maryland, the state of Senator Van Hollen whom you mention. Many people now call him Van Hamas. He recently wrote a very offensive essay in the NY Times, using the terms "genocide" and "occupation" and so forth. Here was the reaction from a local Jewish newspaper. I hope the link works.
3) You mention several times when Palestinians/Arabs have rejected a two state solution. You did not mention their refusal, despite Israel's acceptance, of the UN resolution which created Israel, and would have created a Palestinian state in 1947-48. Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinian authority want a one state solution, the state being Palestine, and it would be Judenrein. As we put "E Pluribus Unum" on our currency, they would put "Death to the Jews" on theirs.
4) Left wing Jews in America favor ending the "occupation." So do the Palestinians. However, the Palestinians consider Haifa, Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and Beersheva to be "occupied territory."
Of course, it depends upon who the Republican nominee is. The Republican party in Maryland is extremely weak. He is next up for election in 2028. Maryland elects and re-elects Senators and Congressmen and almost never replaces them. Once elected, someone stays in office as long as he wishes. I would guess that in his next election, Van Hollen will get 60% of the vote.
And, as you know, Steny Hoyer, a pro-Israel congressman is retiring. Who knows who will replace him. And Kweisi Mfume, who has been very pro-Israel as well, is in a tough primary fight against an anti-Israel moron.
The implosion of the left is a matter of time. Let’s hope it’s soon. I have many left Jewish and non Jewish friends who refuse to discuss facts and history regarding Israel and just condemn the heroes who are defending our people. Both extreme views are unacceptable to me, however I have moved farther right than I ever thought possible.
You are dreaming. The Democratic party is already closing ranks around the Jew haters. Formerly outspoken Zionists have turned silent. Democrats who openly support Israel (like John Fetterman) are ostracized and Israel hating candidates are nominated by the party everywhere with one now mayor of the biggest city in the U.S. The Democratic party has been lost for the foreseeable future.
Great essay, short and to the point. There still seems to be a lack of understanding of the situation by our Jewish leadership organizations. The ADL, AJC, and numerous JCRCs still are in denial that the Democrat party is not the Democrat party of the last century. They keep minimizing the fact that the party has been taken over by the most vile and radical leftist elements who are following the same playbook that the National Socialists did in Germany and the Bolsheviks did in Russia...They have found their rallying focal point and that is the Jews plain and simple. Until our major Jewish organizations recalibrate this will only get worse.
Truth! I contacted them several times over the last 8 years with specific ideas only to be told "Not Interested". I asked them why don't they start a fund from the deep pockets to assist our brothers and sisters in Europe to relocate to the US or Israel, or use their funds to establish self defense and arms traiing courses taught by retired military (US, or IDF) or LEOs for Jews of all ages (young, teens, adults and seniors), or set up training on medical emergency responses (like stop the bleed). The reality is that we are one election away from becoming as at much risk as the German Jews were in 1936.
Ignorance abounds ... some of em don't even know what a woman is ffs! We can only try to help them learn to think for themselves as individuals on the basis of facts .... don't give up.
Ah, the intolerant and ill informed left. The Park Slope Food Coop is just another example of their hypocrisy. Do you suppose they boycott the Chinese or Turks? The list could go on and on. Only the Progressive and their elites could be so naive as to think that Hamas or the PA seek a secular, egalitarian and socialist government.
I wonder if all these anti Israel idiots will abandon Christmas as well …. A man born to Jewish parents, of Jewish descent, born in Bethlehem in the land of Israel. Should go down well with the consumer industry in December… wonder how many votes they would get??
I wish what you said is true, but sadly in the real world, a third of American Jews in NYC voted for someone who if he had is way, would love to kill all the Jews in the US and eradicate Israel and kill seven million Jews. Most American non-religious Jews, are robots who would vote for Hitler if he was the Democrat candidate for President. The Progressive Jews, meaning most Reform Jews and others more radical, still believe that if they grovel enough, beg and whine, and state that Israel should be eradicated, and apologize for being "evil" Jews, that the Jew haters will love them again. They have forgotten that the pre-war German Reform Jews boasted they were more German than the Germans and therefore untouchable. Well, we all know the ending to that delusion. Unfortunately, most American Jews are so delusional about what has happened, and in total denial that they have become irrelevant and expendable, that they have not prepared for their families' escape plan, if it become like other places in the Diaspora. This is especially dangerous if the Socialist Democrats along with their silent other Democrats win the election. The US will turn into Canada, where the governing Liberal Party, with the chief Jew hater, the Irish Catholic PM, Carney, not only consistently incites hatred of Jews but condones the horrific violence that has occurred against Canadian Jews, so we are now the worst Jew hating country in the English speaking world.
How many jews in park slop voted to boycott Israeli products? How many pridefully don keffiyehs( love to see the older gals dressed in black from head to toe)?
The top dem anti Israel obsessed ones all have their "As a Jews" for Palestine. Those Jews love that role. I am sure Cortez in NY has lined up a whole team of kapo advisors for her future campaigns.
I dressed for the NYC parade so as to be quick to get away from any marauding cosplaying hamas. Fortunately, I saw zero anti Israel protestors. I saw a lot of Jews for whom Israel is not a complicated moral issue they must tear themselves over about. But a celebration. Not a celebration of murder and rape. Israel's accomplishments are huge. When I first visited Israel, had one solitary tall building in TA. Now the skyline on the news is incredible That's only one example. The anti Zionist Jewish left and Israeli anti Zionist left in Ha Aretz and their universities is to put it from my youth....a bummer. I can't get inside their brains. No, I'm not sitting here worrying about the the 'plight" of the Palestinians, Mandy P. With Arab, European and UN complicity they have made their bed. I expect nothing much to change re Israelophobia....it may be too soon to say that this is the end of woke and the left is imploding. Entertainment acts are pulling out of a planned 250th American celebration such is their horror at anything that even touches on Trump and MAGA. If only it was trim and fit Barry as Joy Behar mused on an old view clip they aired on Fox yesterday.
1) Lifelong Democrat here - definitely not voting for any Democrats in mid-terms or the general (unless they are outwardly supportive of Israel); I consider not voting at all but if I can stomach it I will vote Republican. 2) Boycotting Israeli products, I have read, sometimes hurts "Palestinians" as they are often the workers in these factories. Less buyers leads to layoffs. Duh. 3) Let Israel manufacture its own munitions - all of it. That would be fabulous in terms of getting free of everyone's opinions . . . and I would love to hear our Military Industrial Complex moan and groan about it. It would be a win-win and so much fun. 4) In addition, Israel doesn't have to share its technology and intelligence with everyone. 5) When are they going to pour concrete into all those tunnels in Gaza? Just wondering.
When it comes to antisemitism the Left has pretty solid record of its eventual ideological and actual progression towards it. . Post WW-I German Left turned itself into NSDAP using antisemitism as principal agent of "progress" and eventually defining and implementing genocide. Pre Bolshevik Russian Left turned into murderous Bolsheviks that redefined antisemitism as antizionism and spread it across the Left through their fellow travelers internationally. These days, Left is moving towards and adopting Islamic version of antisemitism which is actually something of the Left's regression towards old German version of antisemitism. Unfortunately, too large a number of politically active Jews don't seem to see this pattern and still think and act "Left" with one third of Jewish actual voters in New York arguably deciding installation of islamist-socialist Demokrat Mamdani in the office and probably even larger number voted in favor of Park Slope - heavily Jewish progressives area - Coop boycott .
In New York City, Democratic socialists have talking points that convinced a little more than one fifth of eligible voters to elect Zohran Mamdani. These include bankrupting landlords, abolishing the NYPD, emptying the jails, taxing people out of their homes (because private property is an abomination), dumbing down schools even more than they are now, making sure every child knows what a drag queen is, providing free cross-sex hormones and surgeries to every confused adolescent who wants them, and -- free, free everything for everybody.
I exaggerate not.
A little less than one fifth of us voted against Mamdani. Three fifths of voters didn't vote at all. Mamdani is about to spend $5,000,000 on a platoon of Democratic socialists to do "community outreach."
He's endorsing and pushing anti-Jew Islamists on us for any number of political positions.
If New Yorkers do not rise up with a mighty roar and throw the little shithead out in four years, then I think our city, the glorious phoenix that's risen again and again despite any number of misfortunes over our long history, will finally be dead.
Its too late, the damage is done, New York the city is lost and should be flying the American flag upside down, they will not come back from this!
New York State will follow shortly as the residents lack the tenacity and the personal courage to stand up to their own idiot children and the islamic onslaught that is taking over right in front of them, if you are not willing to stand up and fight for what is yours, you will lose it and you will end up like the UK, Europe and Canada and Australia, all of home are now in serious internal worsening conflict due to their asinine political stupidity.
So say you. Get back to me in four years.
As a native New Yorker I MUST believe that NYC will overcome this absolute nightmare of a period in time. It’s not just the Jewish community that is suffering from this nightmare. In my heart I believe that New Yorkers will stand up to this abolition of democracy
It wont take that long for you to realize the damage that has been done, migration of support for Madummy will be huge over the next few years, many conservatives will leave, so sadly I think we are all going to see the complete collapse of the Empire state into a mirror of the burrow of OAC!
Malcolm, we can bat this around forever. We see the damage that's being done by Mamdani, but those of us New Yorkers who love our city aren't ready to call it a lost cause. We have come up from worse circumstances.
It tends to be those from elsewhere who seem to take pleasure in the thought of our collapse. I do not mean you, but certainly I am not mistaken in the tone of joy on the part of other commenters when they dismiss our city. It's a foul emotion to have.
NYC and New York state is the home to the largest Jewish community outside of Israel so believe me it is and always will be of great concern for me. For 70 years islamists have failed to destroy Israel in their quest to nullify the Jews, and while their terror attacks on the Jewish state, to do as much damage as is possible, their attack against Jew has gone multi national, NYC, Florida, Texas, LA, Toronto, Montreal, wherever there are large concentrations of Jews, islam has grown tremendously over the last 10 to 15 years, visible confrontations are becoming the new everyday normal, spinless politicians are standing back for fear of losing votes power and money, this problem is growing exponentially like a California wild fire out of control and nothing has been done to correct it, the vote can only do so much until it is to diluted to make a difference, that time is now, your once great city is lost, so is your state, 4 years form now its going to be a lot worse.
It's all about demographics. NYC's Jewish population is half what it was 25 years ago. Its Muslim population has, I think, doubled.
Same with the Metro area - Adam Hamawy is running in NJ.
Paterson was crowned the "Capital of Palestine."
Look at Dearborn.
I have hope for the US but it will be quite a power struggle.
UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany - gone.
I agree with everything you say except your last sentiment. I didn't spend four hours cheering everyone from start to finish at the Israel Day parade yesterday for nothing.
No!!!
I hope you are wrong. But good point that adults have to be willing to stand up to their children.
The only way to be rid of Mamdani is if a broad coalition of people united around a moderate Republican-fusion candidate. It happened with LaGuardia and Giuliani. It can happen again - but I'm not hopeful.
Even so the DSA is with us for the foreseeable future.
I actually am hopeful. Then again, I live here. I have to be hopeful, at least for another four years.
I live in NYC too but I’m not hopeful.
Reporters for The New York Times and their peers are overrepresented in that one-fifth of voters. The Times writes about this the way that Tiger Beat once wrote about New Kids on the Block.
I'm with you. Grew up in Long Island; family business on 7th Avenue (yes garment center). It's a real shonda.
1) I hope you are right that the left is imploding.
2) I live in Maryland, the state of Senator Van Hollen whom you mention. Many people now call him Van Hamas. He recently wrote a very offensive essay in the NY Times, using the terms "genocide" and "occupation" and so forth. Here was the reaction from a local Jewish newspaper. I hope the link works.
https://www.jewishtimes.com/the-moral-simplicity-of-chris-van-hollen/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSFmZ1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFsbjROQkdGZzBXWHNZdFNOc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkDhHs0SqVxYI9Er_UdsgvVRR3PnMXTr3HfUISO2EY_-Y6_T5uT-tMTXtFHl_aem_ZyR32zzeTCPY0SlvQhmewA
3) You mention several times when Palestinians/Arabs have rejected a two state solution. You did not mention their refusal, despite Israel's acceptance, of the UN resolution which created Israel, and would have created a Palestinian state in 1947-48. Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinian authority want a one state solution, the state being Palestine, and it would be Judenrein. As we put "E Pluribus Unum" on our currency, they would put "Death to the Jews" on theirs.
4) Left wing Jews in America favor ending the "occupation." So do the Palestinians. However, the Palestinians consider Haifa, Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and Beersheva to be "occupied territory."
What margin would the Maryland Mans amigo win by today
Of course, it depends upon who the Republican nominee is. The Republican party in Maryland is extremely weak. He is next up for election in 2028. Maryland elects and re-elects Senators and Congressmen and almost never replaces them. Once elected, someone stays in office as long as he wishes. I would guess that in his next election, Van Hollen will get 60% of the vote.
And, unfortunately, our other senator shares Van Hollen's Jew-hating views. It's a tragic reflection on what was once termed "the free state."
And, as you know, Steny Hoyer, a pro-Israel congressman is retiring. Who knows who will replace him. And Kweisi Mfume, who has been very pro-Israel as well, is in a tough primary fight against an anti-Israel moron.
Yup. Maryland, my Maryland. Depressing indeed.
The implosion of the left is a matter of time. Let’s hope it’s soon. I have many left Jewish and non Jewish friends who refuse to discuss facts and history regarding Israel and just condemn the heroes who are defending our people. Both extreme views are unacceptable to me, however I have moved farther right than I ever thought possible.
Me too. I am not jewish just a person with hopefully some moral clarity
You are dreaming. The Democratic party is already closing ranks around the Jew haters. Formerly outspoken Zionists have turned silent. Democrats who openly support Israel (like John Fetterman) are ostracized and Israel hating candidates are nominated by the party everywhere with one now mayor of the biggest city in the U.S. The Democratic party has been lost for the foreseeable future.
Great essay, short and to the point. There still seems to be a lack of understanding of the situation by our Jewish leadership organizations. The ADL, AJC, and numerous JCRCs still are in denial that the Democrat party is not the Democrat party of the last century. They keep minimizing the fact that the party has been taken over by the most vile and radical leftist elements who are following the same playbook that the National Socialists did in Germany and the Bolsheviks did in Russia...They have found their rallying focal point and that is the Jews plain and simple. Until our major Jewish organizations recalibrate this will only get worse.
Dont hold your breath. Leftism trumps Judaism for many
I won't. They are beyond redemption and incapable of change. In many ways they are like the Jewish councils in Europe in the 1930s.
The AJC just released a new "plan" to fight anti-semitism that reads as if someone asked AI to "write a parody of a plan to fight anti-semitism".
I tried reading some of the plan and frankly it is not at all inspiring. It seems to be more of the same that has been tried over and over again.
Of course it is. Because that tired organization can only do one thing. That.
Truth! I contacted them several times over the last 8 years with specific ideas only to be told "Not Interested". I asked them why don't they start a fund from the deep pockets to assist our brothers and sisters in Europe to relocate to the US or Israel, or use their funds to establish self defense and arms traiing courses taught by retired military (US, or IDF) or LEOs for Jews of all ages (young, teens, adults and seniors), or set up training on medical emergency responses (like stop the bleed). The reality is that we are one election away from becoming as at much risk as the German Jews were in 1936.
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Ignorance abounds ... some of em don't even know what a woman is ffs! We can only try to help them learn to think for themselves as individuals on the basis of facts .... don't give up.
Ah, the intolerant and ill informed left. The Park Slope Food Coop is just another example of their hypocrisy. Do you suppose they boycott the Chinese or Turks? The list could go on and on. Only the Progressive and their elites could be so naive as to think that Hamas or the PA seek a secular, egalitarian and socialist government.
I wonder if all these anti Israel idiots will abandon Christmas as well …. A man born to Jewish parents, of Jewish descent, born in Bethlehem in the land of Israel. Should go down well with the consumer industry in December… wonder how many votes they would get??
I wish what you said is true, but sadly in the real world, a third of American Jews in NYC voted for someone who if he had is way, would love to kill all the Jews in the US and eradicate Israel and kill seven million Jews. Most American non-religious Jews, are robots who would vote for Hitler if he was the Democrat candidate for President. The Progressive Jews, meaning most Reform Jews and others more radical, still believe that if they grovel enough, beg and whine, and state that Israel should be eradicated, and apologize for being "evil" Jews, that the Jew haters will love them again. They have forgotten that the pre-war German Reform Jews boasted they were more German than the Germans and therefore untouchable. Well, we all know the ending to that delusion. Unfortunately, most American Jews are so delusional about what has happened, and in total denial that they have become irrelevant and expendable, that they have not prepared for their families' escape plan, if it become like other places in the Diaspora. This is especially dangerous if the Socialist Democrats along with their silent other Democrats win the election. The US will turn into Canada, where the governing Liberal Party, with the chief Jew hater, the Irish Catholic PM, Carney, not only consistently incites hatred of Jews but condones the horrific violence that has occurred against Canadian Jews, so we are now the worst Jew hating country in the English speaking world.
How many jews in park slop voted to boycott Israeli products? How many pridefully don keffiyehs( love to see the older gals dressed in black from head to toe)?
The top dem anti Israel obsessed ones all have their "As a Jews" for Palestine. Those Jews love that role. I am sure Cortez in NY has lined up a whole team of kapo advisors for her future campaigns.
I dressed for the NYC parade so as to be quick to get away from any marauding cosplaying hamas. Fortunately, I saw zero anti Israel protestors. I saw a lot of Jews for whom Israel is not a complicated moral issue they must tear themselves over about. But a celebration. Not a celebration of murder and rape. Israel's accomplishments are huge. When I first visited Israel, had one solitary tall building in TA. Now the skyline on the news is incredible That's only one example. The anti Zionist Jewish left and Israeli anti Zionist left in Ha Aretz and their universities is to put it from my youth....a bummer. I can't get inside their brains. No, I'm not sitting here worrying about the the 'plight" of the Palestinians, Mandy P. With Arab, European and UN complicity they have made their bed. I expect nothing much to change re Israelophobia....it may be too soon to say that this is the end of woke and the left is imploding. Entertainment acts are pulling out of a planned 250th American celebration such is their horror at anything that even touches on Trump and MAGA. If only it was trim and fit Barry as Joy Behar mused on an old view clip they aired on Fox yesterday.
The DSA - Democratic Socialists of America - used to be a fringe group.
No longer.
They're engineering a Bolshevik-style "entryism" campaign that will eventually take over the entire Democratic party.
Whether they can effectively run anything is beside the point- they can't but it's not the issue.
Can they gain power?
Look at NYC.
1) Lifelong Democrat here - definitely not voting for any Democrats in mid-terms or the general (unless they are outwardly supportive of Israel); I consider not voting at all but if I can stomach it I will vote Republican. 2) Boycotting Israeli products, I have read, sometimes hurts "Palestinians" as they are often the workers in these factories. Less buyers leads to layoffs. Duh. 3) Let Israel manufacture its own munitions - all of it. That would be fabulous in terms of getting free of everyone's opinions . . . and I would love to hear our Military Industrial Complex moan and groan about it. It would be a win-win and so much fun. 4) In addition, Israel doesn't have to share its technology and intelligence with everyone. 5) When are they going to pour concrete into all those tunnels in Gaza? Just wondering.
I'm going back to twitter soon and looks like nothing has changed except the Left movement looking more like terrorists every day.
When it comes to antisemitism the Left has pretty solid record of its eventual ideological and actual progression towards it. . Post WW-I German Left turned itself into NSDAP using antisemitism as principal agent of "progress" and eventually defining and implementing genocide. Pre Bolshevik Russian Left turned into murderous Bolsheviks that redefined antisemitism as antizionism and spread it across the Left through their fellow travelers internationally. These days, Left is moving towards and adopting Islamic version of antisemitism which is actually something of the Left's regression towards old German version of antisemitism. Unfortunately, too large a number of politically active Jews don't seem to see this pattern and still think and act "Left" with one third of Jewish actual voters in New York arguably deciding installation of islamist-socialist Demokrat Mamdani in the office and probably even larger number voted in favor of Park Slope - heavily Jewish progressives area - Coop boycott .