Ultimate Jewish Leadership Failure: New York to Become London

Catastrophe: pro-Hamas Marxist wins New York’s Democratic mayoral primary

After beating former governor Andrew Cuomo in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, Zohran Mamdani — a Muslim, proud communist, and open supporter of jihad against America and Jews — may well become the mayor of New York City.

A man who marched with supporters of Hamas, advocates BDS, is funded by CAIR (Hamas), demanded Israel’s destruction the day after October 7, and so much more, might become mayor of the most Jewish city in America. Jews in New York City will likely be targeted by Mamdani’s unrepentant call to “globalize the intifadah.”

There are many causes of this disaster, but, at base, the problem is that Jewish leaders failed to fight the defamation of the Jewish state and its supporters. The libels whose normalization they allowed — “apartheid,” “genocide,” “starvation,” “colonialism,” etc. — have turned into slogans of lethal hatred now screamed at Jews on the streets.

The leaders of the ADL, AJC, Federations, JCRCs, most non-Orthodox rabbis, and so many non-profits, allowed the mainstream media to defame Israel, then allowed the campuses to be taken over by anti-Zionist professors and student groups.

While either opposing the deportation of Jew-hating Muslim visa holders or staging gaudy galas honoring themselves and useless social media cronies, mainstream Jewish non-profits of every stripe ignored this existential threat. They betrayed us. Utterly.

Jews have been hunted in Amsterdam and taunted in Malmö; the same will likely follow in a Manhattan run by a Mayor Mamdani. This time, with city hall’s approval. And, as in London, Mamdani says, the NYPD will be banned from “high crime areas,” creating European-style “no-go zones.”

Mamdani condemned American airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities. The Islamic Iranian regime he evidently supports is, at this moment, rounding up, torturing, raping, and likely massacring anybody in Tehran who wants freedom, with three already publicly hanged as “Mossad” agents.

Yet, none of our Jewish leaders or their organizations devoted the necessary resources to preventing this nightmare. Perhaps some of them, as do a horrifying number of leftist Jews in New York, like Mamdani.

Jewish lives are now in danger.

We must take back the city.

Join us at the Jewish Leadership Project to see how.