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‘A lot to fear,’ Jewish New Yorkers say about Mamdani primary win
Vita Fellig, Andrew Bernard
June 25, 2025

New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani’s victory in Tuesday night’s Democratic primary is alarming many Jews in the city who say that his anti-Israel rhetoric legitimizes antisemitism and deepens divisions…Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS that Mamdani’s electoral success portends trouble for the Jewish community in New York City. “As an American Jew and as a human, I am truly frightened that an antisemitic communist, Mamdani, has actually promoted murdering Jews by supporting and legitimizing the antisemitic rally cry ‘globalize the intifada,’ refuses to accept the Jewish State of Israel as a Jewish state and is friendly with Israel-bashing Jew-haters,” Klein said. READ MORE

FRONT PAGE MAG Anti-Israel Socialist Wins New York City’s Democratic Mayoral Primary According to a report by Canary Mission, Mamdani “has been a regular and prominent figure in NYC’s disruptive anti-Israel protest scene that has predominantly been engineered by Within Our Lifetime (WOL), an extremist and violent anti-Israel and anti-American group whose activists have been behind multiple attacks on Jews.” As part of his despicable attempt to target the Jewish state, “Mamdani has pledged to cut off private charitable funding and halt arms shipments to Israel, continuing the anti-Israel agenda he pursued as a state assembly member.” 

COMMENTARY Seth Mandel: Brad Lander and the Collapse of NYC’s Jewish-Political Establishment Stephen Colbert can be effective at shielding left-wing anti-Semites from criticism, but he cannot hold a candle in that department to Brad Lander, who also struck a deal with Mamdani that each man’s voters would support the other as a second choice in case the primary went multiple rounds. Lander’s alliance with Mamdani, who is now the poster child for progressive anti-Zionism’s conquest of the mainstream Democratic Party, is the culmination of years of Lander’s efforts to kosherize anti-Semitism by serving as the blocking back for up-and-coming anti-Zionists as they rise within the party.

FORWARD Exclusive: Mamdani pledged to arrest Netanyahu. A poll shows how New Yorkers really feel about that Just a third of voters support the Democratic nominee’s vow to comply with an ICC warrant if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the city

CHICAGO TRIBUNE Editorial Board: Want to know how a socialist mayor would govern New York City? Ask Chicago If New Yorkers are frustrated with Mayor Eric Adams, they should be careful not to trade him for someone who might preside over a city that is less competitive and less financially secure. Trust us — we’ve living that reality.

FREE PRESS The Mayor Who Wants to Save San Francisco from Itself But at the very moment New York is apparently embracing Zohran Mamdani’s radical chic, San Francisco is going in the other direction. The city by the bay has a new mayor, Daniel Lurie, who was effectively elected to clean up this failed experiment in extreme progressivism. San Francisco is saying, “Enough with the hippies, the ideologues, the performers. We want what works.”