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I know talent when I see it. Zohran Mamdani has it. He is handsome, charismatic and a smooth talker. He's got the perfect 'I've got your back' smile. But behind it? Reckless economic plans that will destroy working-class jobs and crush small businesses. Massive tax hikes that will drive enterprise businesses out. He wants to defund the police, which will no doubt increase crime in New York City, the capital of the world and the largest home to Jews outside Israel. Mamdani is slick — but not that slick. He foolishly thinks that by rubbing elbows with Jewish elected officials and business leaders last week, the rest of us are going to forget what he stands for. Not a chance. Beneath the charm and the polished exterior, Mamdani's lack of experience and radical socialist policies will be devastating for every New Yorker — and especially for the Jewish community. His entire identity is built on hatred of Israel and the movement to 'free Palestine … by any means necessary'. His record speaks for itself. He refuses to recognise Israel as a Jewish state; he falsely claims Israel is committing genocide, while he's quiet about countries like Syria that actually are. He vows to arrest Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, for war crimes if he sets foot in New York City. • Meet Zohran Mamdani, the Bernie Sanders-inspired socialist who wants to run NYC He defends the use of the slogan 'globalise the intifada', which he must know is a blatant call for violence against Jews. He sponsored a bill that would fine New York synagogues and Jewish businesses $1 million or risk legal action for raising money for Zaka and Hatzalah, Israeli emergency response organisations helping people in disputed territories. In a resurfaced music video, he rapped 'My love to the Holy Land Five', referring to a group of convicted terrorists in the largest terror financing case in US history. One of the terrorists he praised, Mufid Abdulqader, sang at an Al Sakhra production in Oklahoma City in 1992: 'We won't fear a Jew. Oh, Hamas, respond to them with force. Death is right for Jews.' I could go on. Does he really think meeting a rabbi and congregants at a synagogue on the Upper West Side will erase all of that? It's as if he's saying, 'Look, Ma! I'm not an antisemite!' Not only is it meaningless, it's also pure performance. Here is who Mamdani truly is. He chants alongside Jew-haters at rallies for Within Our Lifetime, the antisemitic group led by Nerdeen Kiswani. Meanwhile, his mayoral campaign has been quietly funded by CAIR, an organisation with alleged ties to Hamas and an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation Trial and a US specially designated global terrorist. Then there is his radical father, Mahmood Mamdani, who joined Columbia University in 1999 as a Herbert Lehman professor of government. In 2014, he published the book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, in which he wrote: 'We need to recognise the suicide bomber, first and foremost, as a category of soldier.' When NBC's Kristen Welker interviewed Zohran Mamdani in June, he declined to denounce the phrase 'globalise the intifada'. Then, at an event hosted by the Partnership for New York City last week with 100 business leaders, he backpedalled slightly, saying he would 'discourage' the use of the slogan, but not the idea behind it. He reiterated that he did not personally use the statement and that to many 'the phrase means protest against the Israeli occupation of Gaza', but his father seems to know the intifada calls for violence against Jews. His father even apparently praised the violence that broke out between Israel and Palestinians in May 2021, which left hundreds dead, saying: 'We are witnessing something far more meaningful, the birth of the third intifada against settler colonialism.' Like his dad, Zohran Mamdani talks in double-speak. When questioned by business leaders about his well-known stance on defunding the police, he instead focused on his proposal to increase mental health services. But, unfortunately for him, the internet is for ever. In 2020 he tweeted: 'There is no negotiating with an institution this wicked & corrupt. Defund it. Dismantle it. End the cycle of violence.' In the first quarter of 2025, antisemitic incidents accounted for 62 per cent of all reported hate crimes in New York City. So, how exactly does Mamdani plan to protect us? Surely not with his Department of Community Safety, filled with social workers. Ironic that he just spent more than $33,000 on private security for himself. Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times wrote that 'plenty of Jews support Zohran Mamdani', noting a poll that showed him winning the support of 20 per cent of likely Jewish voters in the Democratic primary, putting him second after the 31 per cent of Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor who has since announced an independent campaign for mayor. But only one in five registered voters turned out for the primary. About 1.35 million New Yorkers are not yet registered to vote. The race is hardly over. Mamdani can play down his anti-Israel, anti-capitalist, anti-western rhetoric all he wants. He can host shabbat dinners with far-left Jews who call Israel a genocidal state. But nothing he says or does will pull the wool over the eyes of most Jewish New Yorkers. October 7, 2023 marked our worst day in history since the Holocaust. These are the crimes against humanity that he celebrates every time he rallies alongside his keffiyeh-wearing, Hamas-supporting fans. Zohran Mamdani is a charlatan, a Trojan horse, a political fraud dangling promises of free buses and rent freezes while he knows he can't legally deliver. But the charm, the smile, the talent! Most Jews of New York know better. Mamdani will hear us loud and clear in the general mayoral election on November 4. Aliza Licht is an award-winning marketer, author, podcaster and, as of October 7, 2023, a Jewish activist.
