SPIKED
Zohran Mamdani’s Ivy League intifada
Brendan O’Neill
November 5, 2025
We warned you. We told you that one day the foppish blacklisters of the mad modern campus would have real political power. We told you there’d come a time when they would leave their leafy playpen and drag their politics of self-pity that they doll up as socialism into high office. And now it’s happened. Ignore the guff about Zohran Mamdani’s victory being the fruits of a ‘working-class revolt’ – this is an Ivy League intifada, the revenge of Bushwick against Trumpland. That the new mayor of New York City is a 34-year-old Muslim and democratic socialist who’s never had a real job and struggles to say whether Israel has a right to exist has made waves around the world. The right is in full panic mode, fretting that NYC will shortly declare itself the capital of a new caliphate. READ MORE
MIDDLE EAST FORUM Gotham’s Red-Green Takeover: The Mamdani Experiment Begins His leftist revolutionary comrades and his Islamist allies in civilizational jihad are over the moon with the unprecedented opportunity they have won. They are poised to fundamentally transform New York City into a shining example of socialist and Islamist de-construction. The Red agenda was the public cover. Mamdani now will have the chance to deliver a socialist utopia with policies dictated by the extremist national platform of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). This includes a $10 billion tax hike that Gov. Kathy Hochul warned would cause taxpayers to “decamp to Florida.”
KUGN590 Leaked DSA Demands for Mamdani Spark Outrage Online A leaked document from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) listing the organization’s demands for New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has sparked outrage online over its anti-Israel focus. The internal document, which was accidentally shared with Just the News’ Jerry Dunleavy, originated from the DSA’s Anti-War Working Group…According to the document, the organization’s demands for Mamdani include: Divest City pension funds from Israeli bonds and securities, Withdraw City funds from banks that lend money to Israel or do business in Israel, End City contracts with companies that do business with Israel, Operate City-run grocery stores free from Israeli products.
TABLET MAG The Hipster Hologram The rally was a fever dream straight out of a left-wing Reddit thread. The air buzzed with the kind of hysteria you get only when politics becomes therapy. Graying baby boomers in anti-Trump T-shirts held up signs warning of encroaching fascism, while a cluster of Orthodox Muslim men sat stoically behind gender-indeterminate DSA members, each sporting the standard-issue nose ring like a badge of moral clarity. I even clocked a man in his 50s wearing a “MAGA for Mamdani” hat. It felt like the entire American political spectrum had collapsed into one anti-Israel, quasi-antisemitic ouroboros of incoherence.
COMMENTARY The CCP Must Be Loving Every Minute of This And there was Rania Khalek of BreakThrough News partying at the Zohran Mamdani victory rally on Election Night, giddily celebrating on camera with Katie Halper, who was draped in a keffiyeh. There was progressive uber-influencer Hasan Piker, who has called Jews “inbred” and “bloodthirsty” and said “America deserved 9/11.” He was with Holocaust revisionist Mehdi Hasan, formerly of Al Jazeera, along with anti-Semitic former congressman Jamaal Bowman who complained during his reelection that he was “being attacked by the Zionist regime we call AIPAC.”
ArchitectGuy on Israel 