Comments on: The Jews of New York didn’t vote for Mamdani

By: miguel cervantes,

miguel cervantes, — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:57:58 +0000

yes Mamdani pere, seems to be of the Tariq Ali/Edward Said school of crazy, thats what the Spectator seemed to have ascertained, yes Cuomo happened to ring all the stupid bells and yet still came close to winning, the man has no shame, he didn’t protect anybody in fact, he found ways to torment every group of person, you can imagine, and yet blacks and latinos turned out for him, the most quixotic character was Brad Lander, who tried to be the immigration advocate, and embarassed himself to no small degree,

then again the Garden State didn’t fall to Baraka fils mau mau games, I know this was a much larger electorate, and in a slightly different time frame, so there is a capacity for rational choice, across the Hudson,’

they are a piece of work, Abraham Lincoln and Hitler,
good grief, of course

By: Nobody

Nobody — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:45:06 +0000

This analysis isn’t quite right. Although Orthodox Jews are right leaning, they generally register as Democrats in NYC because often the only meaningful election is the primary, especially the very local portion of the election (State legislature and City Council).

However, in this case there was another factor. Cuomo is widely recognized as an antisemite in the Orthodox community in the city. He scapegoated the Orthodox Jews as spreaders of Covid and discriminated against neighborhoods with large Orthodox populations even if the covid instances were the same or lower than some other areas.

And in this campaign he threw out dog whistles in his advertisements to those times (“I protected the city from Covid and those who spread it”).

So while he basically admitted to and apologized for his mistreatment of the Orthodox Jewish community when he was Governor when he went to request endorsements of Orthodox Jewish community groups, nobody thought much of it.

So from the Orthodox Jewish perspective, there were two antisemites on the ballot and one or the other was inevitably going to win, so they stayed home.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:33:56 +0000

Actually, if Schicklgruber got it from anyone he got it from the Ottoman Turks; but Dear Old Dad is, after all, Columbia University professor so I guess he’s allowed to make up his own “contextualities”…or whatever…kinda like the illustrious Joseph Massad, the eminent Rashid Khalidi…or the Godfather of ‘em all, the exalted Edward Said…

Lordy, what a crew!

By: Marlene

Marlene — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:12:22 +0000

Mamdani’s history is at least not hidden. (Dang the digital age, lol!)
Last Dec., Mamdani had posted a performance by some Indian group mocking Hannukah.
Also:
His father has claimed that Hitler got the notion for the Holocaust from President Lincoln.
Quite a messed up “educated” family.
May God spare NYC, and America.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:09:20 +0000

Related: the housing crisis angle…

Homes for hipsters;
“From Zohran Mamdani to the YIMBYs, the leading figures in the housing debate have little to offer most Americans.”—
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/07/05/homes-for-hipsters/
H/T Powerline blog.

By: huxley

huxley — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:59:44 +0000

I wonder to what extent the Democrat establishment is worried about Mamdani, that he is so radical he would be toxic to the Democrat brand.
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“For moderates and wealthy Democratic donors, the reaction is, this is horrible and it’s going to ruin us. For center-left Democrats who don’t necessarily support Mamdani’s policies, the reaction is, this is a rejection of the Democratic establishment…” said Tim Lim, a Democratic strategist and fundraiser.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/26/democrats-mamdani-win-factions-reaction-00425096
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I think back to the 2020 Dem primaries, when it looked like Bernie Sanders was going to win the nomination. Suddenly, all the other candidates but Biden dropped out. Clearly Dem power players had been at work behind the scenes.

The NYC Mayor’s race is a different situation, but I wonder if the Democrat leadership might find a way to pull the plug on Mamdani.

Meanwhile heavy-hitters—like Governor Hochul, Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, and Hakeem Jeffries—have largely remained silent, avoiding endorsements of Mamdani and signaling discomfort.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:42:37 +0000

From the “Heh” File…

“New York Times Struggles To Explain Why It Reported News To Traumatized Readers”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-york-times-struggles-explain-why-it-reported-news-traumatized-readers

…or maybe not….

Opening grafs:

This week, the New York Times experienced an uprising in its ranks and among its readers. The paper was denounced by its own staff and liberal pundits called for the entire editorial staff to be canned.

Why?

Because The New York Times actually reported news that was deemed harmful to the Democrats, specifically Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. The newspaper took the additional step of publishing a cringing explanation of why it reported the news that Mamdani lied on his Columbia application in claiming to be black.For liberals, it was an utter nightmare….. The left has always maintained a high degree of tolerance for false claims by its own leaders, from Sen. Elizabeth Warren claiming to be a native American to Sen. Richard Blumenthal claiming to have served in the Vietnam War.

The problem is when a news eco-chamber for many readers is shattered by an errant outbreak of journalism. Many Times readers live within a hermetically sealed news silo, relying on MSNBC for cable, The New York Times for print, and BlueSky for social media. You can literally go all day without being exposed to an opposing view or fact. Then suddenly this happens….

By: miguel cervantes,

miguel cervantes, — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:52:21 +0000

well wilhelm, aka deblasio, the sandalista, and his very interesting cohort, were enough damage to the city, I dubbed him mayor bane, after the villain in the batman films,

the arrogance of the Gotham democratic party, they couldn’t find anyone respectable, meaning someone who didn’t have blood on their hands, with Cuomo thats not a metaphor, keep Eric Adams, on the ballot, I know evil orange man, sarc, but also have they not seen what the city had deteorated into, that might be rhetorical if they read the Times or watch Morning Joe,

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:35:42 +0000

MollyG.
To the extent that having to do something about antisemitism that the putative victims don’t seem concerned about…maybe you’re right.
However, the issues are usually more involved. Is communism more important than antisemitism in NYC which has a history but not a catastrophe? If the latter can be considered like the weather, the former is the issue in question.
It would be the Jews acting as they have all along, since they’ve been subject to a certain level of antisemitism and have gotten along and don’t expect things to change either way, no matter how they vote. That might not be the smart thing to do, especially in the current situation, but what would voting do about it?
I have no idea how Jews in NYC perceive the usual level of antisemitism, not do I know if they think there’s anything they can do about it, politically or otherwise.
But if, as I say, they see it like the weather, then Cuomo’s offenses would be more obvious, more graphic, and more subject to political activity such as voting. So, you may as well.
In any event, I suspect that if Cuomo had not been running, the twenty percent would have stayed home. Another ZM….seen them come and go. Nothing changes. One can hope.

By: MollyG

MollyG — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:07:55 +0000

Imagine caring about antisemitism only if and when Jews (supposedly) stop voting a certain way!