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The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York on Nov. 5, 2025, has ignited a hysterical response from the national Jewish community. Most of this is unfounded, paranoid, and makes Jews look weak and afraid. Here are some things to consider:
- Major Jewish organizations ignore that the spike in anti-Semitism is caused by Israel’s war policies in Gaza and the West Bank, not white supremacists and Nazis. This isn’t easy to accept.
- Wealthy Jewish donors (Adelson, the Republican Jewish Coalition, etc.) who are vehemently pro-Trump have polarized the Jewish community more than the anti-Israel protestors.
- The danger is not Mamdani, but Israel’s government, AIPAC, the Republican Jewish Coalition, and major Jewish donors to Trump, who all support Netanyahu’s war policies and are pushing for a one-state solution. These same groups are also supporting Trump, who is poison to the majority of American Jews.
- Israel’s war policies, even though they are more ethical than those of other armies, have made Israel a pariah state.
- The vast majority of violent attacks committed against Jews and Jewish institutions have been committed by right-wing groups, all of which have relations with the MAGA Trump regime. Wealthy Republican Jews have given over $100 million to Trump in his two election bids and are under the same party tent as Christian nationalists and neo-Nazis.
- If an election were held in Israel today, Netanyahu would be voted out of office.
- Major Jewish organizations must rethink their policies and practices regarding how they want to address anti-Semitism in light of the above.
- Major Jewish organizations are stuck in the past and are institutionalists. They have created an anti-Semitism-industrial complex that sees all criticism of Jews as anti-Semitism. It is not. This is like a carpenter who says all problems can be fixed with a hammer.
- As a result, national Jewish organizations have to rethink their messaging and purpose. Campaigns to fight anti-Semitism that do not include Israel’s decline in international stature will fail to unite and raise money. They can no longer raise money based on the Shoah and anti-Semitism alone.
- The statistics on anti-Semitic attacks from the ADL-B’nai Brith should be examined closely since many of these incidents are verbal and are not physical in any way.
- Attacks against American Muslims have seen a similar spike since the Trump election as attacks against Jews.
Trump’s biggest contributors - The panic of major Jewish groups regarding the Mamdani election makes Jews look weak, neurotic, and like constant complainers.
- Major Jewish groups have a vested interest in keeping the focus on anti-Israel and anti-Semitic attacks in the spotlight since they benefit from fundraising.
- The mayor of New York has nothing to do with influencing U.S. foreign policy or anything that will affect Israel’s war conduct.
- The danger of any boycott of Israel by Mamdani is overblown since it would require the approval of the city council and/or state legislature, which would never approve it.
- The primary threat to U.S. Jewry is assimilation, not anti-Semitism, as many Jewish leaders agree.
- The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) and AIPAC have done more to divide Jews than any outside forces intentionally. The RJC preaches that the Republicans have done more for Jews than Democrats, a patently false claim.
- The MAGA Republican Party does not reflect any traditional Jewish values: justice, repairing the world, treating others with dignity and respect, performing acts of kindness, maintaining peace, and recognizing that all people are created in the image of God. This does not bother the RJC and the wealthy American Jews,
- The Jewish media and institutions are reluctant to criticize wealthy Jews for their pro-Trump financial and political support because they are afraid of antagonizing large donors. As a result, they curtail their criticism of Trump and the right-wing Netanyahu government, who are overwhelmingly Trump supporters.
- There has never been a pogrom in the U.S. From December 1862 to June 2025, there have been 38 killings of Jews in the U.S. based on their religion, according to this list on Wikipedia. This includes the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, a textile worker wrongly convicted of murdering a 13-year-old, up to the June 2025 firebombing of a synagogue in Boulder, Colorado, which killed one congregant.
- According to Alan Dershowitz and Eli Weisel, anti-Semitism causes Jews to become more identified with Judaism and better members of the community.
- American Jews are overwhelmingly Democrats, anti-Trump, and, like it or not, disapprove of Israel’s war conduct, even though it is necessary and more ethical than what other armies have done. Jews have been Democrats since the early 1920s, while the Republicans have been anti-Semitic since the mid-1960s, when the party reduced its hate as a result of William F. Buckley.
- Jews outside of New York have a very different view of the Mamdani election. Do a poll and the results will surprise you.
- The majority of American Jews have never personally experienced an anti-Semitic incident.
- The majority of American Jews have changed their views of Israel, as Mandy Partinkin’s video shows.
- It will take Israel a decade to regain its pre-war prominence among nations, unless it discovers a cure for cancer or achieves some other breakthrough.
- Democratic socialism is a winning platform for winning elections, as most Americans are concerned about advancing their standard of living, fighting corporate greed, and implementing a fair and progressive tax policy that demands the wealthy pay more, while closing tax loopholes that favor corporations and the rich. Corporate socialism and unregulated capitalism are the enemies of the majority of Americans, who do not benefit from the preferential treatment given to the top 2%.
Bottom line: The panic over Mamdani’s election by major Jewish organizations is grossly disproportionate, makes Jews look weak, and shows that major Jewish groups need to rethink their messaging and attitudes towards the Netanyahu government’s conduct of the war in Gaza and its toxic aftermath..
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