Mamdani’s Monster Madness

The new normal, thanks in part to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is for socialists to vilify Israel – slander it by saying it is committing a genocide, and demonize AIPAC while ignoring all other lobbying groups that spend more money, and never mentioning that the country of Qatar has spent billions cultivating anti-American and anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses.

Mamdani was a test case: could someone running for mayor of New York City say he does not believe Israel should exist in its current form and still win?

The answer was a pitiful yes.

Some argued that former governor Andrew Cuomo was a greatly flawed candidate. But in another congressional race, Adriano Espaillat was a strong candidate, a gem of the Dominican community with extensive experience, serving in Congress since January of 2017 after spending 20 years in the New York State Legislature. He said he believed in a two-state solution.

His opponent, Darializa Avila Chevalier, attended an anti-Israel protest on October 8, 2023, while Israeli blood was fresh on the ground and hostages were experiencing their first horrifying 24 hours of captivity. But of course, the instinct of a radical hater like Chevalier was to protest Israel.

As if that was not bad enough, she had tweeted that she wiped her hands with the American flag as well as an expletive aimed toward Kamala Harris. During the debate between the two candidates, she was exposed as politically immature and disastrously unprepared.

On Tuesday, she won her primary race.

On June 18, Mamdani decided he could push even further, likening AIPAC to “monsters.”

Jews who voted for him will try to contextualize and point out that he was referencing an Italian speaker. None of that has any relevance. Mamdani dehumanized Jews once again, because that is his goal.

Nobody should expect him to apologize.

Consider that in 2019, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was made to apologize for her social media post that it was “all about the Benjamins” and she confirmed she was referring to AIPAC money. The times are changing.

Since the war in Gaza, the goal of the Democratic Socialists of America has been to continue to normalize genocide slander against Israel while simultaneously making Jews less safe, allowing them to kill two birds with one stone and make themselves more electable. Jew-hatred energizes the base.

The timing of Mamdani’s “monster” comment was deliberate.

So too was a coffee owner’s social media post about Congressman Dan Goldman. For the supposed offense of spending nine dollars while his seven-year-old child used the restroom – something many people attempt without purchasing anything – Goldman, who has often criticized Israel and led impeachment proceedings against President Trump, was lambasted by owner Parviz Mukhamadkulov, who mocked him online by referencing “genocide juice.” He later returned Goldman’s nine dollars.

Brand Lander, who beat Goldman on Tuesday, is the “good Jew” who says he feels queasy discussing AIPAC because of Jewish stereotypes about money, yet insists he must discuss it anyway.

The truth is he has to talk about it to throw certain Jews under the bus so he could get Mamdani’s seal of approval and win, despite not deserving the seat.

It was no surprise that Mamdani’s wife, who has liked posts denying sexual assault on October 7, posted that people should vote for Chevalier and Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, who defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso in the 7^th District.

Mamdani called Chevalier a person of “conviction.”

To recap: in Mamdani’s mind, AIPAC is a group of monsters, and someone who protested against Israel the day after October 7 is a person of conviction.

Yes, it is madness, but it is working.

Jew-hatred sells and is becoming more and more popular. Mamdani is a skilled politician with a great smile that tricked some Jewish voters into thinking he cared about representing all New Yorkers. Yet he has nothing to say when a Jewish woman was attacked on the subway, her hair pulled out by a woman who claimed Jews ate babies.

Did Mamdani think she was part of AIPAC?

It would be comical if it were not so tragic.

The result will be the normalization of the idea that AIPAC is evil, Zionists are evil, and Jews are evil. Most Jews are Zionists.

This will also pressure Jews into believing that, for their physical or social safety, they must either declare themselves anti-Zionist or publicly vilify Israel. Online, I have already seen a number of social media pages of Jews receiving antisemitic comments, trying to prove that they are good Jews with antizionist posts.

They are not students of history and don’t understand that when they come for the Jews, they come for all the Jews.

Today it might be Park East Synagogue, under the guise that land being sold in Israel is “stolen,” but it has also been a protest against Omer Shem Tov for the “sin” of being a Jewish hostage taken by Hamas.

In the short term, we will likely see fewer people going to synagogues.

Back to Mamdani’s comment referring to AIPAC as a monster.

What are you supposed to do with a monster?

Respect its freedom of speech? Respect laws allowing an American organization to lobby government?

You are supposed to hate a monster, tell children stories warning about it and if given the chance, destroy it.

While this may not legally be considered an incitement to violence, it has the practical effect.

I have seen a number of Jews who voted for Mamdani say his word choice was not good.

They decided to vote for someone who made Jews less safe. That was their decision, but it should be noted that the majority, roughly two-thirds, did not vote for him.

Chevalier, in a pre-October 7 world, would likely have been trounced by Espaillat. Goldman would also have won by a landslide.

But by dog-whistling and substituting AIPAC for Jews, voters can be manipulated by that, rather than voting for a candidate who is qualified.

Does this mean Graham Platner and his Nazi tattoo will win?

Maine is not New York City, but we can be sure Platner will benefit from these wins.

For perspective, Mamdani’s comment was worse than Omar’s.

But the Democratic Party that forced her to apologize is not the same one we have today, and there should be no expectation that Mamdani will apologize; of course, any apology by him would be meaningless even if offered

Today’s mainstream Democratic Party is fighting for its life, trying to prevent the Democratic Socialists of America from taking over.

The DSA is great at Jew-hating, propaganda, and getting out the vote, especially to uninformed young people, as well as white New Yorkers taught by radical professors that they can excise the guilt of slavery if they call Israel “white colonizers” and accuse it of genocide.

It does not help that this comes at a time when Vice President JD Vance suggested that Israel can’t “kill” its way out of every situation (in reference to Hezbollah) as though America would respond to four of its soldiers being killed by sending cupcakes.

For all the Jewish podcasts, conferences, and events discussing the rise in antisemitism and antizionism, it is not clear that there is anything that can be done to stem the tide.

As for 2028, it may mean Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris will have to be more radical to secure the nomination.

And while Mamdani wasn't born in America, and therefore cannot seek the presidency, the DSA’s sights are fixed on the White House.