Why Are Jewish Groups Hysterical Over the Mamdani Election?

What Else is Behind the Mamdani Hysteria?

A Possible Remedy

Since this is a long list of actions that are contributing to anti-Israel sentiment and antiSemitism, it would be disingenuous if some possible solutions were not proposed.

Unfortunately, the damage done by the Netanyahu regime, his right-wing supporters, and Netanyahu’s personal relationship with the most despicable and corrupt president in US history is a black stain on Israel’s global status.  Aside from Israel’s “start-up nation” reputation and its lead in weapons sales, high tech, and advanced lethal militarism, Israel will have to return to its Jewish religious roots to demonstrate how it will repair the world.

One way would be for Israel to donate a proven pharmaceutical to the world gratis to cure or treat a global disease.  Dr. Albert Sabin did this with the polio vaccine in 1961, and he offered it to the world free of any patent restrictions.  Israel should do the same if it has something like this on the shelf.

After Trump is removed from office, non-Netanyahu Israeli politicians should put a great distance between themselves and Trump and his family members.  This should involve public pronouncements about how Netanyahu and Trump deceived the world about their overly optimistic and naive plans for the Iran War.

What’s Behind the Anti-Mamdani and Anti-democratic Socialism Hysteria

• • 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 institutionalized.  They have created an anti-Semitism-industrial complex that sees all criticism of Jews as anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism. These criticisms have some validity, but in 2026, Holocaust fundraisers are going on 80 years old, and have become ineffective.  They are not reaching young people. Major Jewish national groups need to refresh themselves for the post-Trump MAGA world.  They also have to accept that the biggest source of antiSemitism today is Israel’s war policies.
  • The statistics on anti-Semitic attacks from the ADL-B’nai Brith should be examined closely since many of these incidents are verbal and do not involve physical violence.
  • Attacks against American Muslims have seen a similar spike since the Trump election as attacks against Jews.

    

  • 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. They must abandon that old stance.
  • 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 investment 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 elections, as most Americans are concerned about improving their standard of living, fighting corporate greed, and implementing a fair and progressive tax policy that requires the wealthy to 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.