Mamdani toady Brad Lander learns that – Latest News
Brad Lander was all the time going to be taught the exhausting approach.
The ex-NYC comptroller defeated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman in a high-profile Democratic major earlier this 12 months that despatched shockwaves via their social gathering.
Both are progressive Jews and outspoken critics of Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities.
“The current crisis in Gaza shocks the conscience. The international community — especially Israel and the United States — must immediately put an end to this humanitarian catastrophe,” declared Goldman final August.
But that wasn’t almost enough for the new, virulently “anti-Zionist” Democratic base within the Big Apple.
Lander endorsed Zohran Mamdani during the 2025 mayoral major, whereas Goldman opted to withhold his help via even the final election.
Lander characterised the battle in Gaza as a “genocide” and campaigned on ending all navy help to Israel; Goldman didn’t.
In Mamdani’s New York, the latter by no means stood a probability — Lander prevailed by more than 30 factors.
But at what value?
At a rally outdoors Madison Square Garden on Saturday, the soon-to-be congressman was the subject of unrelenting antisemitic abuse.
His fellow protesters, ostensibly there to register their disdain for a Hindu nationalist occasion happening on the Garden, grew irate on the mere sight of a Jew.
“You look like a wicked balls—k! You look like a scrotum, you filthy balls—k!” screamed one unhinged harasser.
“F–k you, balls—k Zionist!”
Another peach — this one seemingly within the throes of a mental break — beat on a drum and as he received up in Lander’s face.
“Get the f–k out! Get the f–k out! Get the f–k out!”
Still one other hateful man-child gave the sport away, as if it hadn’t been already, by asserting, “There’s no such thing as a good Zionist!”
“The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist!” he added in a charming postscript.
Did it not cross this toady’s thoughts, as he endured his ritual punishment for being born a Jew, that possibly he had aligned himself not with the righteous social justice trigger du jour, however with trendy society’s irredeemable dregs?
Of course it did; in reality, Lander grappled with the blurred line between anti-Zionism (opposition to the Jewish proper to self-determination) and Jew hatred simply final month during a sit-down with The New York Times Magazine.
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“I feel queasy talking about it, given the antisemitic tropes at play here about Jews and money and power,” he acknowledged during a dialogue in regards to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, “But I have to.”
Have to?
Had he been coerced into endorsing Mamdani, whose first assertion in regards to the Oct. 7 pogrom was a condemnation of the victims?
Was he pressured at gunpoint to make anti-Israel animus the centerpiece of his congressional marketing campaign?
Or was it simply politically handy to lock arms with the hate-mongering Third Worldists overtly agitating for a second Holocaust?
Anti-Israel American Jewish leaders like Lander and California’s Scott Wiener, who confronted down a equally grotesque mob within the Golden State earlier this summer season, understood the fundamental premise of their cut price after they struck it.
Democratic House candidate Brad Lander was met with antisemitic heckling during a protest outdoors of Madison Square Garden on Aug. 30, 2026. James Keivom for NY Post
They would faux to not discover that “anti-Zionism” is a thinly disguised excuse for spit-flying antisemitism, and in exchange they might be allowed, for a time, to embellish an workplace in Washington.
If they waved the Palestinian flag vigorously, denounced Netanyahu forcefully and regarded the opposite approach dutifully enough, they thought they may be spared.
Lander and Wiener, for 2, welcomed their noxious new overlords.
Only now do they perceive the true phrases of their deal with the satan.
They aren’t powerbrokers, harbingers of something to come back or the synthesizers of a recent liberal consensus in regards to the American-Israeli relationship.
They’re wannabe ladder-climbers too silly to appreciate that they’re the rungs being stepped on by the far more crafty and sinister forces they rely as their allies.
They thought they have been selecting between irrelevance and dishonor, selected dishonor, rendered themselves irrelevant within the course of and actually earned the contempt of everybody — from the Jews they betrayed to the radicals they appeased — within the course of.
