1. Mamdani is a salon Bolshevik. His mother is Mira Nair, a millionaire movie director. It was Mira Nair who tried to have the actress Gal Gadot banned from the Oscars because she is Israeli.

2. In 2013, Mamdani retweeted an article by Glenn Greenwald which defended the Muslim killers of Drummer Lee Rigby, who used a machete to murder him on a London street, arguing that Rigby was a legitimate target because he was a soldier.

3. Mamdani has repeatedly refused to say that Israel, as the state of the Jewish people, has a right to exist. During an event hosted by the UJA-Federation of New York last month, Mamdani declined to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.

He said instead that “I believe that Israel has a right to exist with equal rights for all,” in a “carefully worded response when asked, sidestepping the issue of Israel’s existence specifically as a ‘Jewish state’ and seemingly suggesting Israeli citizens do not enjoy equal rights. Then during a New York City Democratic mayoral debate, he once again refused to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, sparking immediate backlash among the other candidates.”

4. “In 2023, while speaking at a Democratic Socialists of America convention in New York, Mamdani encouraged the audience to applaud for Palestinian American community activist Khader El-Yateem, saying, “If you don’t clap for El-Yateem, you’re a Zionist.” Apparently, in Mamdani’s view, being a Zionist — supporting the right of Jews to a state of their own — is a terrible thing.

5. Mamdani has called for the defunding of the police. Already the NYPD is greatly understaffed. How, then, will the 8.3 million citizens of New York be protected from street robberies, home burglaries, shoplifters, murderers, rapists, e tutti quanti? Does he have another way of assuring the safety of persons and property? Has he stumbled upon a solution to control crime that no one in history has yet discovered? He should tell us, now, just what his plan is. We’re all ears.

6. Zohran Mamdani has no objection to the chant “globalize the Intifada.” The two Intifadas (“uprisings”) carried on by Palestinian terrorists resulted in the deaths of more than a thousand Israeli civilians. Mamdani is so appreciative of the result that he would like to spread that “Intifada” across our giddy globe. The phrase means only one thing: kill Jews not just in Israel, but everywhere. Mamdani has embraced the slogan.

7. Zohran Mamdani is a stuntman. That is, he has engaged in preposterous performances such as jumping into the East River — or was it the Hudson? — fully dressed in a suit. This kind of thing grabs the attention of the gawkers who like their daily dose of panem-et-circenses, but such stunts tell us nothing about whether Mamdani has either the knowledge or the experience needed to run a city of 8.3 million.

8. Zohran Mamdani has no executive experience. He has been a member of the New York State Assembly, a legislative body, only since 2020.

9. Mamdani has been endorsed by, among others, Senator Bernie Sanders (D-New Left Book Club), Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Havana), and Linda Sarsour, who has been Mamdani’s most important supporter. She began campaigning for him long before anyone else. She is a Palestinian-American who accuses Israel of “genocide.”

10. Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, a longtime community leader in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and founder of the Jewish Future Alliance, has followed Mamdani’s resistible rise from up close and concludes that “he’s a radical leftist who tweets vile things about the Jewish state and shows no empathy for the Jewish community. I don’t need Linda Sarsour to convince me to be disgusted by his campaign, rhetoric, and behavior. He disgusts me all on his own!”

11. On October 8, 2023, a day after Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, Zohran Kwame Mamdani posted on X/Twitter a message that blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli government, and the Knesset for the “ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine.” He never mentioned Hamas. Instead, he wrote this: “Netanyahu’s declaration of war, the Israeli government’s decision to cut electricity to Gaza, and Knesset members calling for another Nakba will undoubtedly lead to more violence and suffering in the days and weeks to come.” Mamdani concluded his post by claiming that “the path toward a just and lasting peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid.” There was no mention of Hamas.There was no “occupation” of Gaza after 2005. There is no “apartheid” in Israel, where Jewish and Arab citizens have exactly the same political, social, and economic rights. The only difference in their treatment is this: Jewish Israelis must, while Arab Israelis may, serve in the military.

12. Less than a week after Hamas’ atrocities on October 7, 2023, Zohran Mamdani joined a violent protest outside the Park Slope home of New York Senator Chuck Schumer, where participants were demanding that Israel be made to stop fighting. He was arrested.

13. Mamdani started his college’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter.

14. Mamdani has said that if he became the mayor, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to the city, he would have him arrested for “war crimes.”

15. Mamdani wants to make New York City buses free. No wonder bus riders in the city voted for him. Such a policy would cost the city annually about $780 million. Mamdani has not explained how he would make up that shortfall. He could increase taxes on the very rich, more of whom will then move out of the city altogether, and perhaps out of state, to Connecticut or New Jersey, shrinking the NYC tax base still further.

16. Free buses would, of course, cause fewer people to use taxis. Taxi drivers would suffer. Mamdani may have forgotten that a large percentage of those taxi drivers in NYC are what the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci famously called “the sons of Allah.”

17. Mamdani wants to prevent landlords from raising rents. He wants a “rent freeze” on units that already are rent-stabilized. Landlords will then cut back on repairs and improvements on the units they own. Many current landlords will get out of the business altogether, selling properties off to homebuyers. Mamdani’s policy would shrink the number of rental properties available, hurting the very renters he claims to be helping.

18. Mamdani wants to build a series of city-owned grocery stores that will be “non-profit.” With their lower prices, these stores will drive privately-owned grocery stores out of business, leading to “shopping deserts” throughout the city.

19. Mamdani wants to provide “free child care” for all. How many billions of dollars would that cost New York City taxpayers? How many families with large numbers of children would move to NYC in order to transfer the child care burden to the city’s taxpayers?

20. Mamdani wants to raise the minimum wage to $30/hour, nearly double the current minimum wage of $16.50. This measure would lead to job cuts, greater automation, and increased prices for goods and services.

21. Mamdani’s economic plan is a promise of pie-in-the-sky-in-the-sweet-bye-and-bye. No wonder he won. Fire the accountants with their green eyeshades and dire warnings, and bring on the freebies. New York City will become the Big Rock Candy Mountain.

AUTHOR

Hugh Fitzgerald

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