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June 27–July 3, 2025 • Korach • 1 Tamuz 5785 • Vol. 24, No. 21
WAKE UP, NEW YORK!
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EDITORIAL
ost New Yorkers who voted for Zorhan Mamdani did not do so because they hate Jews or the Jewish state. While Israel and the fight against antisemitism are closest to our hearts and homes, the priorities of others differ; not everything is about us. Some voted as they did because Mamdani was an attractive candidate whose opponent, Andrew Cuomo, is deeply flawed and widely despised and who, despite a huge war chest, mostly sat out the campaign. Many bought into Mamdani’s fanciful vision of a socialist paradise, reflecting ignorance or naivety about how a city works. We’ll have another chance to get this right in November. If we unite behind one candidate (likely Eric Adams, because Curtis Sliwa is both unqualified and unelectable) and create a get-out-the-vote machine like the one that defeated radical Israel-foe Jamaal Bowman in Westchester last year, we can win. At stake is the safety and future of Jews in New York and of New York itself. Indeed, use of the Big Apple’s stage to propel Mamdanism across the county puts the future of America at stake. It’s not just about the Jews.
Mamdani vote makes it clear: Jews are not welcome in NYC
By Vita Fellig and Andrew Bernard, JNS Zohran Mamdani’s victory in Tuesday night’s Democratic mayoral primary in New York is alarming many Jews in the city who say that his anti-Israel rhetoric legitimizes antisemitism and deepens divisions. Daniel S. Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS that Mamdani’s dismissive “attitude to the concerns of New York’s Jewish community during the campaign, particularly its strong support for the State of Israel, is more than troubling.” “New York is home to the largest Jewish population in the world outside Israel,” Mariaschin said. “Over more than three centuries, Jewish New Yorkers have made countless contributions to making it one of the world’s greatest cities.” Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, and William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, spoke to JNS about Mamdani on the sidelines of emergency meetings that their organizations convened in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday.
New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani greets supporters during an election night gathering on Tuesday. Michael M. Santiago, Getty Images via JNS
“I’m certainly hoping that that all rightthinking New Yorkers, and certainly our Jewish community, will organize themselves to make sure that there’s a serious opposition in the general election,” Fingerhut said. Daroff said that he is “very concerned about the normalization of antisemitism in America.” “Among the battle cries of those who seek to murder Jews is to ‘globalize the intifada,’ and as a purveyor of that attitude, as someone who rationalizes and minimizes and denies the dangers that accrue to the Jewish people and the importance of the State of Israel, it’s deeply concerning,” he said. 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 See With Mamdani on page 3
Fringe is mainstream after primary GABE GROISMAN
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ohran Mamdani, who resoundingly defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary, represents the absolute worst of the worst in American politics. This primary election With the chaos we’ve seen on college cam-
puses and city streets over the past several years now reaching the highest level of local politics, this election should be a wake-up call to all Americans. New York is the largest city in the country, with nearly 8.5 million residents. While its
population does not represent the rest of the nation, the fact that a radical socialist is the Democratic Party primary winner and candidate for the general mayoral election signals that the “woke left” is no longer just a fringe See After the primary on page 3