New York Magazine’s ‘Habibi City’ proves Jews – Latest News
New York Magazine this week dubbed our city “Habibi City” to mark the rising prominence of Middle Easterners and Muslim immigrants united by enjoyable, frolic — and a consuming hatred of Israel and Jews.
It’s a acquainted formulation, harking back to 1966, when newly elected Mayor John Lindsay declared New York to be “Fun City.”
Yes, such enjoyable! Lindsay’s two phrases drove NYC into civil and budgetary collapse.
A criminal offense tsunami rotted neighborhoods throughout the 5 boroughs, and feckless budgetary insurance policies emptied the town’s coffers.
And the population of Lindsay’s “Fun City” declined by half a million people.
Facing a authorities that didn’t appear to care what occurred to them, a lot of the center class voted with their ft.
Something comparable could occur in Habibi City, however this time the trouble to make life insufferable for some New Yorkers is totally intentional — and geared toward a particular minority.
Lindsay was incompetent, however he definitely didn’t need respectable taxpayers to depart.
Not so the themes of New York Magazine’s present cowl package deal, and their beloved Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
New York Magazine’s “Habibi City” cowl. New York Magazine
Through their actions and their rhetoric, they’re actively working to result in depopulation by making life for the Big Apple’s 900,000 Jews insupportable.
And this collection of articles is an element of a bigger marketing campaign whose objective is to let Jews know they’re no longer welcome in New York.
The lead piece, by Zaina Arafat, describes how she and her fellow Habibis reacted in 2023 to the worst slaughter of Jews because the Holocaust.
“In the months after Oct. 7,” she writes, New York’s Habibis had been “increasingly spilling into view, desperate to be close” to “people who looked like you and spoke like you . . . living under the threat of annihilation. So we protested, we boycotted, we wrote op-eds.”
Um . . . who was residing below the menace of annihilation again?
The Habibi actions started on Oct. 8, with campus celebrations of Hamas and denunciations of Israel — after which erupted throughout New York, with the ritualistic shredding of posters mourning the 240 hostages taken into Gaza by terrorists.
And these protests! One of them, on Oct. 28, shut down the Brooklyn Bridge when Israel was precisely 12 hours into its invasion of Gaza — that’s, when the “genocide” that by no means really occurred actually hadn’t occurred but.
It was the day of my son’s bar mitzvah, and it took company three hours to get to our celebration at a kosher restaurant on Brooklyn’s Coney Island Avenue.
The Habibis meant that citywide disruption as a signal: They would use Hamas’ Oct. 7 monstrousness as a ladder to climb towards political energy within the United States.
The New York Magazine propaganda package deal — written totally inside the worldview of those that imagine Hamas is in the suitable and Israel and the Jews who assist it are genocidaires — demonstrates that this effort continues.
Get opinions and commentary from our columnists
Subscribe to our each day Post Opinion e-newsletter!
Thanks for signing up!
In so doing, its articles lay naked the degree to which anti-Zionism and antisemitism are indistinguishable.
Restaurants run by Jews need to be boycotted, and Jews who make and sell hummus are colonial oppressors stealing non-Jewish recipes.
The 79-year-old nation that’s home to 7 million Jews is referred to with out irony as “the land mass currently called Israel,” successfully endorsing the concept that it needs to be wiped off the map.
This isn’t two-state-solution rhetoric.
It’s not assist for co-existence.
It’s a call for . . . genocide.
Those who imagine such issues are actually the cultural and political vanguard of New York City, they usually need to harness their energy to close Jewish companies — and weaken the law enforcement establishments mandatory to guard Jews.
Oh, some Jews are to be tolerated — so long as they’re keen to function ideological bodyguards for New York’s antisemitic mayor.
Consider the radical rabbis who begged Mamdani this week at Gracie Mansion to be nicer to Jews, or no less than to speak more gently about them.
These ordained Quislings need him to supply them cowl for betraying their own people, the identical means they’ve helped defend him from accusations of Jew-hatred.
I don’t suppose Mamdani goes to make it that straightforward for them.
After all, it’s Habibi City now, the place official maps displaying the variety of our metropolis make not a single point out of the areas the place Jews predominate, like Borough Park in Brooklyn.
But these neighborhoods are ceaselessly famous elsewhere in metropolis paperwork — just like the lists of victims of hate crimes.
They’re up 74% over final yr, and everything of the growth comes from a 60% increase in anti-Jewish hate crimes.
New York magazine could select to show a blind eye, however such grim statistics point out that what started paradoxically as Fun City and is now Habibi City could quickly flip into Pogrom City.
John Podhoretz is the editor of Commentary Magazine.
