Mamdani unveils new NYC antisemitism strategy —however – Latest News
Breaking News Alert: City Hall opposes and condemns antisemitism.
Whoa, Nellie, will wonders by no means stop?
But shade me very skeptical that Mayor Mamdani severely approves of the new coverage and plans to implement it.
After all, he’s a strolling, speaking fountain of the traditional Jew hatred and has been fanning the flames since he emerged on the political scene, and particularly since he was elected mayor.
He refuses to see Israel because the legit homeland of the Jewish people, and has embraced the odious declare that its existence is a disaster for Palestinian Arabs.
He received’t denounce the phrase “globalize the intifada,” hiding behind the weak excuse that it’s not the mayor’s job to police speech — even speech that requires the elimination of Israel.
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But he received’t do even that, with one consequence being that antisemitic incidents within the metropolis are hovering, means past the proportion of Jewish residents.
Meanwhile, he embraces the leftist fantasy that New York is enduring a wave of Islamophobia.
Against that historical past, we’re to instantly consider he’s dedicated to taking over Jew haters, although his coverage is half-baked and intensely gentle on particulars.
The plan and his assertion don’t outline antisemitism, neither is Israel talked about.
The Talmud teaches that anybody who sustains one soul, has sustained an total world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our metropolis. Today, we’re launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.Together, we are going to guarantee Jewish New Yorkers are… pic.twitter.com/nUpTy7mFlT— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) September 29, 2026
So ‘surprised’ is he
Yet in line with a prolonged release issued by his press workplace Tuesday, the mayor has found that Jew hatred in Gotham is harmful and widespread.
The release quotes him as declaring that “antisemitism has no place in New York City. Jewish New Yorkers have helped build this city, shaped its culture and strengthened our communities for generations, and they deserve to be safe, celebrated and protected by a city government that stands with them.”
There’s no arguing with the phrases, however the tone of shock on the scope of the issue is downright bizarre. So bizarre that it remembers a well-known scene from the film “Casablanca” about Rick’s Café.
As the corrupt Captain Renault is handed a thick roll of money for his share of the night time’s take, he declares that “I’m shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.”
Mamdani has a related relationship with antisemitism.
If there was a contest for essentially the most virulent promoter, he can be a high contender, but instantly he’s so shocked, he’s pledging to spend thousands and thousands to improve security at synagogues and different Jewish establishments and run public-education applications.
Here’s a easy check of his sincerity: Will he denounce Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists with wherever close to the vigor he makes use of repeatedly to rattling Israel as a “genocide state?”
Fat probability.
He didn’t even denounce the Hamas assault on Israel and the slaughter, rape and torture of civilians, together with ladies and youngsters.
Nor does it help that documented rapes by Hamas have been labeled a hoax on Instagram by his spouse, Rama Duwaji, who claimed the studies have been “fabricated” by The New York Times.
As for actions, will the mayor search to arrest Arab and Muslim authorities officers who call for Israel’s destruction in the event that they set foot in New York in the identical means he tried to get Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahau arrested final week?
He calls Netanyahu a conflict prison, but didn’t utter a peep of protest concerning the look of Iran’s butchers on the UN.
They have executed an estimated 35,000 of their own residents for the crime of protesting the Islamist regime and promise to eradicate America and Israel.
In addition to attacking Israel and American troops within the present conflict, in addition they fired many salvos of missiles and rockets at their Arab and Muslim neighbors.
Apparently none of that bothered Mamdani, to evaluate by his silence.
Call me cynical, however my political radar tells me his sudden discovery and condemnation of antisemitism is a ruse designed to help Gov. Hochul.
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Unholy alliance
She and the mayor have an unholy alliance, as she is determined to gain the votes of his supporters in her re-election bid.
But Mamdani’s obsession with Netanyahu and Israel may backfire on her.
In truth, she was nervous enough concerning the risk that she claimed she informed him to pipe down on Israel and deal with his day job.
Her Big Sister act is basically aimed toward self-preservation in her race in opposition to GOP rival Bruce Blakeman.
Ditto for the truth that she has been transport billions in state money to City Hall and pushed the pied-à-terre tax by the Legislature to help the Socialist boy surprise punish success and fund his record of free issues.
The tax is the main target of a number of lawsuits, with one of the primary successful a main ruling Tuesday on Staten Island.
State Supreme Court Judge Wayne Ozzi declared that City Hall bungled the rollout of the tax on luxurious second properties so badly that it should go back and decide who truly owes the tax earlier than demanding that tens of 1000’s of owners show they aren’t subject to it.
Another case that was filed Tuesday calls the tax unconstitutional as a result of it discriminates in opposition to non-New York residents who “by definition cannot vote against” the Albany and City Hall officers concerned.
Although she’s glad to make use of her energy and public money to buy votes for herself, Hochul actually doesn’t need the taint of Mamdani’s antisemitism to rub off on her.
So whereas she publicly attacked Netanyahu final week and referred to as him a liar for criticizing Mamdani, she’s by no means overtly rebuked Mamdani for calling Israel a genocide state or for eager to arrest Netanyahu.
Under the standard guidelines of campaigns, her silence on these incendiary topics can pretty be seen as consent if not settlement.
Ditto for The Post’s surprising report on how Mamdani plans to make use of his social media trolls to launch a marketing campaign of smears in opposition to high New York business leaders.
The mayor is claimed to have a 200-person “influencer army” able to bash CEOs and others as a method to punish critics and construct help for his agenda.
The publicly funded marketing campaign would reportedly comply with the sample set when the mayor singled out Citadel founder Ken Griffin after the pied-à-terre tax handed.
Then, Mamdani filmed a short video of himself exterior Griffin’s $230 million penthouse condominium on Central Park South.
His creepy, garish boast that he was preserving his promise to “tax the rich” is a doubtless instance of how different captains of finance and industry might be singled out for public shaming.
Will Hochul scold him and inform him what he’s doing is unhealthy for the town, its financial system and its world status?
No means.
When it involves taking over the Pied Piper and his media trolls, she’s simply a Scaredy Kat.
