Ultimate Jewish Leadership Failure: New York to Become London

After beating former governor Andrew Cuomo in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, Zohran Mamdani — a Muslim, proud communist, and open supporter of jihad against America and Jews — may well become the mayor of New York City.

A man who marched with supporters of Hamas, advocates BDS, is funded by CAIR (Hamas), demanded Israel’s destruction the day after October 7, and so much more, might become mayor of the most Jewish city in America. Jews in New York City will likely be targeted by Mamdani’s unrepentant call to “globalize the intifadah.”

There are many causes of this disaster, but, at base, the problem is that Jewish leaders failed to fight the defamation of the Jewish state and its supporters. The libels whose normalization they allowed — “apartheid,” “genocide,” “starvation,” “colonialism,” etc. — have turned into slogans of lethal hatred now screamed at Jews on the streets.

The leaders of the ADL, AJC, Federations, JCRCs, most non-Orthodox rabbis, and so many non-profits, allowed the mainstream media to defame Israel, then allowed the campuses to be taken over by anti-Zionist professors and student groups.