NYC Jews For Mamdani Are Pathetic & Stupid

But why are they doing it? I'll give you 3 reasons

In my previous article on Mamdani, I stated that I don’t care about his proposed policies because NYC is a city that I do not live in. Now that I feel compelled to write more on this subject, I’ll admit that statement wasn’t entirely honest. I actually do care about NYC and the well-being of those who live there because it’s a city I lived in for a decade. In fact, it’s the where I spent the first ten years of my adulthood. It’s still a special place to me, even if I’ve moved on from living there.

So yes, I do have some personal stake in whether or not Mamdani leads the most Jewish city in the world outside of Israel into an antisemitic hellscape. Since my focus is on the Jews, I’m going to start there. Here are some choice op/ed headlines from publications that I frequent, all penned by members of the tribe. Let’s start with small-peen Peter Beinart, whom I have already skewered multiple times:

So Beinart believes that Mamdani won the Democratic nomination because “opinions on Israel are changing fast.” I thought Mamdani’s defenders like to say that he’s trying to focus on the needs of New Yorkers over Israel’s, which would be a perfectly valid argument if As a Jews like Beinart didn’t basically say in bold-faced letters that’s not actually the case.

By the way, I fail to see how the defeat of Eric Cantor to Tea Party nutjob Dave Brat (who served two terms before being defeated by Democrat Abigail Spanberger, the district’s current representative) bears any relation to Mamdani’s victory. Eric Cantor was a U.S. congressman representing a district in Virginia, and he was an incumbent ousted by an outsider. If Beinart wishes to draw comparisons to NY politics, that situation bears more semblance to AOC’s victory over Crowley in 2018 than it does to Mamdani’s win. It was a mayoral primary for which Mamdani did not face an incumbent challenger because the incumbent is running as an independent. So why bring it up? Because Eric Cantor is a Jewish Republican who lost an election, so we all must revel in that (even if it happened more than decade ago).

Here’s another one:

Here are some quick snapshots of a few co-authors of this piece, just so you have an idea of who we’re dealing with here:

Rabbis for Mamdani at a JVP demonstration, a cameo in "Israelism," and at a Jamaal Bowman campaign event before he lost for being a Jew-hating twit

Since it’s my intent to critique the substance of their work, I’ll address a major point in this pathetic article: at the outset, the authors claim that Mamdani “offers a clear plan to address antisemitic violence.” Cool. What would that be, exactly? I read the entire article in search of that information, and here’s the closest they come to outlining his “plan”:

We also reject the bad-faith attacks on Mamdani over the phrase “globalize the intifada,” a phrase he has never used himself. When asked about it, after stating that it is not language he himself uses, he added that it means different things to different people, the same explanation Jewish writers have made in The Forward. While the phrase conjures up fear and concerns of violence for many Jews, for many Palestinians, it literally refers to a shaking off of occupation. New York City is a big, complicated city, made up of large blocs of people who hold these widely diverging associations with the phrase. It is fundamentally important that our next mayor listens to and understands both associations and resists the flattening of people’s histories into soundbites.

We believe that Jewish safety will not be secured by demanding unconditional support for Israel or imposing litmus tests on public officials around language. It will be secured through effective policy, education, solidarity, and shared struggle. That is what Mamdani offers. His platform explicitly names and condemns anti-Jewish hate violence as the most commonly reported bias crime in New York City, and lays out a clear plan to address it. That is what real protection looks like.

You hear that? Mamdani’s refusal to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” an explicit call for violence, is fine because 1) it’s a phrase he “never used himself” (well, never in front of them); and 2) by these rabbis’ own admission their bestie Palestinian friends use it, and their freedom to do that obviously trumps the safety of the people they’re directing their hate speech toward. Yet these same snowflakes will cry “violence” the moment they’re called by the wrong pronoun. These dumb rabbis can just fuck right off.

There’s a difference between condemning something and excusing it as something hardly worthy of condemnation, and I don’t believe that these authors grasp the difference. Whatever this fantasy plan to address rising antisemitism is, they haven’t articulated it well (because he doesn’t have one). While the authors don’t mention this tidbit, apparently Mamdani has pledged “to increase funding to prevent hate crimes by 800 percent,” whatever the hell that means. It’s meaningless from someone for whom "defunding the police” is a stated priority, because that’s the primary law enforcement body responsible for responding to the hate crimes.

I will acknowledge that the pro-Mamdani talking points do contain some grains of truth. Yes, we have an unhinged demagogue and his merry band of sycophants currently running the United States. Yes, Israel currently has the most right-wing government of a-holes in its history. Yes, Mamdani’s competitors are/were terrible candidates. Yes, the Democrats are in an acute state of failure right now. But Mamdani’s intentions, as indicated through his actions and his track record (or lack thereof), must be evaluated apart from all of that noise.

I leave you with the answers to the question that inspired this article:

THREE PSYCHOTIC REASONS JEWS SUPPORT MAMDANI

1. Lack of understanding of basic history / western civilization.

2. Desperate need to be liked among outsiders.

3. Willing to dismiss real threats of violence against Jews because they believe the “Zionists” are the ones causing them.

In some cultures, this would be considered a mental illness.

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