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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 about the dangers of a statewide divestment of Israeli investments, random attacks on Jews from Muslims and anti-Israel protestors, and a rise in anti-Israel sentiment.
Most of this is unfounded, paranoid, divisive, and makes Jews look weak and afraid. Here are some essential things to consider:
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- 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 (Sheldon and Miriam 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 and actions by violent settlers in the West Bank against Arabs have made Israel a pariah state. Violent settler attacks have gone unpunished by the Israeli army and police. American Jews cannot ignore the fact that the global community outside of the UN opposes Israel’s policies.
- 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 $200 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. The ADL and B’nai Brith were founded before Israel was created (1913 and 1843, respectively), so they have never fully adjusted to the current sources of anti-Semitism and Israel’s evolution in a complex modern nation.
- 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 or anti-Zionism. These criticisms have validity. Major Jewish national groups are like carpenters who say 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. Mamdani also would never lose political capital by pushing for a divestiture of Israeli companies from city and state investmnt boards since he will be focusing on his campaign promises (daycare, rent control, free buses, reducing crime.)
- 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%.
- Importantly, a major source of anti-semitism is the criminal activities of high-profile Jews that damage the reputations of all Jews. This includes the activities of Jeffrey Epstein, Bernie Madoff, Steven Miller, Laura Loomer, Pam Geller, Roy Cohn, Sam Bankman-Fried, Michael Cohen, Barre Seid, The Sackler Family, Monica Lewinsky, Harvey Weinstein, and others on the Shanda List.
- On the radar screen for a new spike in anti-Semitism would be proof about the speculation about a link between Jeffrey Epstein and the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. If evidence emerges about this link, it will spark a new wave of investigations into the undue influence of Israel on global politics. This connection is not proven now. However, if a link emerges, it will reshape global public opinion.
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