In my personal opinion, this has begun already BEFIlORE the Novv4 elections.
Anyways .
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Nov 10, 2025 2:00 pm By
Hugh Fitzgerald4 Comments
Now that Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City, the media have been cleaning up his history, trying to make him seem less threatening to the city’s Jews and more acceptable to the general public. More on what is being whitewashed, or deliberately overlooked altogether, for the benefit of Zohran Mamdani, can be found here: “Media Amnesia: Zohran Mamdani’s Extremism Forgotten as Pro-BDS Socialist Wins New York City Mayor,” by Rachel O’Donoghue,
HonestReporting, November 5, 2025:
Mamdani’s “landslide” and “spectacular victory” was not, in fact, a landslide, and furthermore, not all that “spectacular.” He squeaked by, with only 50.4% of the vote, while running against one of the weakest candidates in recent years, Andrew Cuomo, who was fatally tainted by charges from eleven women of sexual harassment during his time in office as governor.
“Globalize the intifada” means that “just as Jews in Israel were killed during the First and Second Intifadas, so now Jews everywhere (“globalize”) must be killed.
Is calling for the murder of Jews worldwide a legitimate “protest slogan against occupation”? How does the murder of Jews in France, or Germany, or the United States express one’s opposition to “occupation”? And since every last Israeli pulled out of the Strip in 2005, how can the word “occupation” conceivably apply to Gaza?
And now that he’s Mayor, when the hurly-burly’s done, and the battle lost and won, can he be asked to explain on what evidence does he rely to call the Gaza war a “genocide”?
Mamdani did more than confuse his aunt with his cousin in this tale, but almost certainly made up the whole story of her supposed worry over “Islamophobia” out of whole cloth. Perhaps he could explain how he knows that a cousin had been “afraid” to go out in public wearing a hijab after 9/11. Does he know of any attacks on Muslims in New York after the 9/11 terrorist attacks? No, I thought not. So why should any Muslimah have been fearful of wearing a hijab in public? Tens of thousands of Muslim girls living in New York have appeared in public after 9/11 unconcernedly wearing their hijabs.
Mamdani has not “said or done anything antisemitic”? Is repeatedly and falsely accusing the Jewish state of committing genocide not antisemitic? Does his refusal to condemn the use of the phrase that calls for the mass murder of Jews worldwide — “globalize the Intifada” — not amount to antisemitism? Does his insistence that BDS — that is, the plan to devastate the Jewish state’s economy through boycotts, divestment, and sanctions — should be adopted everywhere not reveal Mamdani’s antisemitism? For he has not proposed applying BDS to any other country in the world — not to Putin’s Russia, despite its aggression against Ukraine, not to Iran, despite that country’s support for terrorism worldwide, not to China, despite its ruthless campaign to suppress the Uighurs. Mamdani has one measure for the Jewish state, and another for all other countries on our giddy globe.
The whitewashing of Zohran Mamdani in the media, whether by failing to note so many examples of his anti-Israel animus, or by misinterpreting them so as to soften their meaning, is already well underway. But when next January he becomes mayor, and then begins to implement his hugely expensive economic measures — the free buses, the free and universal childcare, the city-owned food stores — to be paid for by a rise in taxes for the well-off that will lead many of them to move out of the city, thereby shrinking New York City’s tax base, and with companies also moving out of New York, in response to Mamdani’s increase in corporate taxes, shrinking that tax base still further, people will become less willing to overlook or forgive his animus for Israel.
All the excitement about this young Lochinvar come out of the east, the best thing, we are being asked to believe, to happen to American politics in many years, or so his supporters devoutly insist, will eventually die down as Mamdani’s supreme incompetence undermines his supreme self-confidence.