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Mamdani and the New Racism
Adam Louis-Klein
November 11, 2025

Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and now mayor-elect of New York City, has made his political identity inseparable from opposition to what he calls Zionism. He has characterized Israel as a settler-colonial project and demanded the United States end its support. He has accused Israel of genocide. On November 4, he became the most prominent American official yet to make this worldview his governing creed. His win cannot be understood merely as another data point in the story of “rising antisemitism.” To grasp its meaning, we need a broader frame—what we at the Movement Against Antizionism call the libel-cycle: a recurring civilizational pattern in which anti-Jewish libels spread through society, generate moral hysteria, and rapidly recode entire ideological systems into engines of anti-Jewish meaning. READ MORE

JEWISH JOURNAL David Suissa: Anti-Zionism Is Racism On Thurs, Nov. 13, the Consortium for Palestine Studies and the Palestinian Student Union will host a conference at UCLA that will revisit “Zionism as a form of racism.” Yes, you read that right. After accusing Zionism of the worst sins on the planet—from genocide to colonialism to apartheid—anti-Zionists are now bringing back the big one: “racism.” Needless to say, no one at the conference will be there to argue for the other side. No one will share, for example, that Zionism represents one of the peak moments in Jewish history—the return of a people to its biblical homeland after yearning for 1900 years to come home to Zion.