Dominic Green
The Jewish Chronicle, July 3, 2025
“The young anti-Israel agitators on the party’s Left believe that tomorrow belongs to them.”
And the winner of the Democratic nomination for the next mayor of New York City is… Zohran Mamdani. Is New York, the city of Seinfeld, Streisand and the 9/11 attacks, really going to be run by a cosplay communist who accuses Israel of “genocide” and refuses to disavow calls to “Globalize the Intifada”?
The city with the world’s largest Jewish population holds its mayoral run-off in November. It’s not impossible that Mamdani, a 33-year-old State Representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), will win.
He won the Democratic primary on 24 June by exploiting the decay of a big-city machine, the slow-moving juggernaut of demographic change, and the generational divide on the Left. If it can happen in London, it can happen in New York.
In one of Mamdani’s canny campaign clips, a faceless interviewer compliments him for fearlessly touching the “third holy grail” of American politics: “You have Islam, you have socialism, and then you have Palestine.” Perhaps he means the third rail.
“When you grow up as someone especially in the Third World, you have a very different understanding of the Palestinian struggle,” replies Mamdani, who is eating rice with his hand in order to show that he remains especially Third World, despite being the son of a Columbia University professor and an Academy-nominated millionaire Bollywood director. ….SOURCE