Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign isn’t about social justice—it’s a vehicle for delegitimizing Israel and fueling rising antisemitism.
In a world increasingly poisoned by disinformation and extremist rhetoric, one truth cannot be ignored: Zohran Mamdani’s run for New York mayor is not about housing, transport, or equity—it is about Israel.
As Vanity Fair’s James Pogue has documented, Mamdani’s political identity is not shaped by city governance but by a relentless obsession with delegitimizing the Jewish state. His rhetoric, branding Israel’s war against Hamas as “genocide,” exposes not a principled critique, but a campaign powered by hatred.
Let us recall the facts: On October 7th, Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel, murdering 1,200 innocents—the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. Israel’s defensive war is aimed at dismantling Hamas, a terror organization that uses civilians as shields. To label this as “genocide” is not only false—it is antisemitic defamation.
If Mamdani cared about human rights, his voice would rise for China’s Uyghurs, for persecuted Christians across the Middle East, or for LGBTQ people threatened with execution in Uganda. Instead, he reserves his fury exclusively for the world’s only Jewish state—the region’s lone democracy, where Muslims, Christians, Jews, women, and LGBTQ citizens live with equal rights.
This obsession betrays his true agenda: not human rights, but hostility toward Jews. To demand Israel’s destruction as a Jewish state is to strip the Jewish people of their sole refuge after centuries of pogroms, expulsions, and the Holocaust. That is antisemitism, pure and simple.
The danger of Mamdani’s rise is not confined to his campaign. Polls already show U.S. sympathy tipping toward Palestinians, a shift driven by propaganda rather than fact. Mamdani thrives on this distortion, casting Israel as a villain while absolving terror groups of their crimes. His candidacy seeks to normalize antisemitism under the mask of progressive politics.
New York, home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel, faces a moral test. Electing a mayor whose defining issue is hostility to Israel would embolden extremists chanting “globalize the intifada” in the city’s streets. It would tell Jewish New Yorkers that their safety, identity, and history are expendable.
This is bigger than one election. If Israel can be smeared as genocidal for defending itself, truth itself collapses. If politicians can ride hatred of Jews to power, then the lessons of the Holocaust have already been discarded.
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign must be rejected—not only by Jews, but by every New Yorker who values truth, democracy, and decency. The fight against antisemitism is not a niche concern. It is the frontline of civilization’s defense.
New York must not reward a campaign of hate. To do so would be to betray its moral character and embolden the forces of intolerance.
Mamdani’s candidacy is a test of clarity. The answer must be loud and unequivocal: New York will not be governed by antisemitism.
