Jewish Mamdani Voters Spread a Stain of Disrespect Upon All of Us; Help Show Our Vibrant Lifestyle and Proud Israel Support
#1295 November 9, 2025
This week a third of New York’s Jewish voters voted Mamdani, spreading a stain of self-disrespect upon not just themselves. We all live, whether we proudly promenade on it or quietly practice sha shtil, on our Grassroots American Jewish Street. Come help Americans see we’re a proud vibrant community, living our American Jewish lifestyle and openly supporting our people’s historic homeland of Israel.
Of my (and the parrot’s) thousand+ books on Israel, one of my favorites, which of course I commend to you, is Arie Eliav’s Voyage of the Ulua. It’s about one of the U.S.-originated Aliyah Bet ships that Palestinian Jews, with a crew of U.S. WW II Jewish vet volunteers, crammed with Holocaust survivors and sailed into the teeth of Britain’s anti-Jewish Palestine blockade.
There’s a scene in that Jewish pride-inspiring, stirring book that’s immortal. The Jewish-homeland-blockading British learn early on what the ship’s mission is, and when it puts into Copenhagen on its way to Sweden to pick up hundreds of refugees, the British pressure the Danes to impound it. The Danish inspector, who had played a key role in the Danes’ famous WW II rescue snatching of Jews there from the Nazis, comes aboard and questions the captain, Eliav, what are all these shelves in the holds, are they bunks for hundreds of people way beyond the ship’s passenger capacity? Oh, no, says Eliav, the ship will sail to the Arctic to study the ocean food chain, and the shelves are for little fish tanks. “Scientific expedition, free to go,” says the inspector, and then, under his breath, “And how much are the Jews of New York paying for this fishing expedition?”
Alas, perhaps I shouldn’t have called this scene “immortal.” This morning, that inspector wouldn’t have respectfully referred to New York’s Jews as unitedly acting actively in their own interest. On Tuesday, JTA, TJV and TOI all reported that a full third of New York’s Jewish voters voted to elect Mamdani mayor of that city with nearly two million Jews. ZOA:
“There were valiant efforts to stop this disaster – such as a letter signed by almost 1,200 rabbis from all streams and endorsed by another almost 3,000 Jews, denouncing Mamdani’s refusal to condemn slogans calling for violence against Jews (‘Globalize the Intifada’). The thousands of letter-signers also condemned Mamdani’s denial of Israel’s legitimacy, scurrilous false accusations that Israel was committing genocide, delegitimization of the Jewish community, and encouragement of hostility toward Judaism and Jews. ‘Get Out the Vote’ efforts tried to avert the crash. But it was not enough.”
See JTA headline: “Mamdani’s Jewish Supporters are Jubilant as They Gain a Supporter in City Hall.”
Here’s Ynet, quoting Prof. Dershowitz quitting the Democratic Party on the eve of the election:
“Just because you’re Jewish doesn’t mean you can’t be a total political fool,” he said. “These are self-hating Jews — people who know little about Judaism but start every sentence with, ‘As a Jew, I support Hamas or Mamdani.’”
And here, NBC News, is President Trump early on election day:
“President Donald Trump said Tuesday that any Jewish person who votes for Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, is ‘stupid.’
“’Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!’ Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.”
JNS Wednesday, Israeli Officials Slam Mamdani’s NYC Win: Hamas Backer, Anti-Semite, quoted at least one Israeli official expressing less than respect for New York’s Jewish Mamdani voters:
“Israel’s Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said it was unsurprising that some Jews in New York supported Mamdani, accusing them of aligning with antisemitism despite his hostility toward Israel and the Israel Defense Forces.
“He likened them to past Jews who sided with their enemies, warning that ‘antisemitism that speaks Hebrew’ is the most dangerous form. Quoting Berl Katznelson, he described such people as rootless and destined to disappear, emphasizing that Jewish self-hatred and disloyalty threaten Israel from within as much as any external enemy.”
Ok, but we’re not among those misguided New York Jewish Mamdani voters, the rest of us self-respecting, Jewish homeland-supporting grassroots U.S. Jews. We can just ignore what they did, nu?
No. See Virtual Jerusalem’s article Thursday, Mamdani’s Win Endangers All Jews, Not Just New Yorkers:
“The election of an avowed anti-Zionist as New York’s mayor signals not merely a political upset—it’s a moral and civilizational warning to Jews everywhere that anti-Israel ideology now wears the mantle of power.”
And stains as well as endangers. A third of New York Jewish voters voted for this mayoral candidate who, with utter disdain for two million Jews in his city, inter alia threatened, in the very heat of his election campaign, to arrest Israel’s prime minister if he set foot in his city. This disdain spread a stain of contempt upon all of us, we grassroots American Jews. We need a more vibrant, self-respecting response than sha shtil.
We American Jews live, all of us, on our grassroots American Jewish street, whether we quietly stay indoors or proudly promenade on it our vibrant American Jewish lifestyle – openly celebrating holidays and life events, taking Jewish theme trips, educating our kids in our religion, culture and history, debating issues confronting us as Americans and as Jews.
On my website, confrontingjewishissues.com, I’ve created a section, Grassroots American Jewish Street, with pages of photos and depictions of us celebrating holidays, bar mitzvahs, etc., taking Jewish theme trips, discussing and debating issues confronting us, and more (stirring Israel books, grassroots visits to Israel places, links to our pro-Israel, pro-us organizations). Email me photos and descriptions of your clan celebrating Jewish events to post in your name, go there and comment on blogs including this, consider blogging yourself.
Be part of our making our case we’re a vibrant, proud, Jewish homeland-supporting grassroots American Jewish community, that we’ll stand up for Israel and us.
Great post. The Jewish support of Mamdani both surprised me and didn’t surprise me. When it comes to politics a substantial a substantial number of Jews have always been on the wrong side of political issues. When communism erupted in Russia in 1917 the number 2 man behind Lenin was Leon Trotsky, a Jew who was joined by many other Jews. Jews overwhelmingly voted Carter, Obama and Biden, and probably also Harris, some of the worst candidates in American history. Not surprising! But . . . to vote for Mamdani, a Jew-hating Muslim publicly favoring a new genocide of 7.5 million Israeli Jews (“from the river to the sea”), who has never held a job, and who has publicly favored defunding the police, abolishing jails and abolishing private property, does surprise me.
In 70 CE Jerusalem’s Jews were still at each other’s throats with the Romans approaching the gates. Today with such until now stalwart US leaders like Trump and Graham now wavering on fatal-for-us “two-state solution” and decrying “annexation” of “West Bank,” let’s hope the U.S. Jewish woke wake and we unitedly make our case to Americans, let alone Europeans, that the land of Israel – historic Jerusalem and Judea-Samaria at its very core – is not only militarily indispensable but, as Speaker Johnson just said, “belong to Israel.” Alevai!