Gregory Lyakhov
American Spectator, July 5, 2025
“The Democratic Party has abandoned its former commitment to Jewish safety, a Jewish national homeland, and democratic solidarity with the State of Israel.”
The outcome of the 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary is a defining moment for Jewish Americans and the country. The Democratic Party has officially elevated a candidate, Zohran Mamdani, who has built his political career on an explicit record of anti-Israel statements, refusal to condemn terrorism, and support for policies that endanger the Jewish community. His victory is a clear demonstration that antisemitic sentiment is no longer confined to the radical fringe of the Democratic Party. Instead, it has become an institutional belief.
The Democratic Party has… elevated voices who undermine the basic rights of Jewish Americans.
Following the October 7, 2023, massacre perpetrated by Hamas, in which over 1,200 Israelis were murdered — including the documented rape of women and the burning alive of children — Mamdani chose not to issue a direct condemnation of the terrorist group. During public appearances and interviews in the weeks following the attack, he repeatedly shifted attention away from Hamas’s war crimes and instead accused Israel of maintaining an “apartheid regime.”
Mamdani is free to reject solidarity with the Jewish state, of course, but he also refused to recognize any of the atrocities committed and refused to condemn the perpetrators. Such moral evasion in the face of documented crimes against humanity is indefensible — and now rewarded within the Democratic Party.
This normalization of antisemitism within the Democratic Party is not limited to Mamdani. In December 2024, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer declined to allow the Antisemitism Awareness Act to proceed to a floor vote. The bill, which would have mandated the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism by federal agencies, was neither controversial nor radical..…SOURCE