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.
SKA says
Msmdani is almost as much of an economic genius as Mohammad Mussadigh was! 😆
Barney says
You left out a perfect line from Big Rock Candy Mountain:
“The jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again
As soon as you are in“
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Yes, at first I wanted to quote more from the folk tune (as sung by Burl Ives):
Oh, the buzzin’ of the bees in the cigarette trees
The soda water fountain
Where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings
In that Big Rock Candy Mountain
but I held back.
rick says
On government owned grocery stores. Yes they will drive privately owned grocery stores out of business but after they are gone, he could raise the prices in the government ones without any competition. in the end New Yorkers would get worse produce as there would be no incentive to sell fresh only produce and why discard fruits and vegetables when they turned bad? What used to be ‘DAY OLD’ produce would be sold at regular prices.
On arresting Netanyahu. With a smaller police dept. with their hands full, who would do it? The police department armed volunteers unit to “End Racism” or would he organize a special squad of “Justice Police” recruited from local mosques to do the job?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If there were both government run & privately run grocery stores, I’d still keep going to Safeway & Costco, & avoid the government ones like the plague. History education is pathetic, but if people studied the Soviet Union, particularly in the 80s, their grocery stores were empty, and they had those legendary long bread lines. It was only after the shock therapy of the 90s that things stabilized, although I daresay the Russians should have managed that transition better, like the Vietnamese did, even if they got removed their communist party from power
In addition to reading, writing and arithmetic, economics – at least the basic economics of supply & demand, as well as Milton Friedman’s rules about spending money, should be taught to kids in, say, 5th grade. Then we wouldn’t have such economic imbeciles like Mamdani, Rashida (who once suggested minting a trillion dollar coin), Pramila or others like them
somehistory says
The slug protested outside chuckie’s place and now chuckie has endorsed him.
Crime in this day, seems to pay.
Wellington says
Mamdani is an inevitable consequence of the Democratic Party losing its collective mind. Mamdani should be seen as a symptom and in no way a cause.
Billy Bones says
Two more things to know about Mamdani.
1. He is an economic illiterate.
2. He most likely is an agent of the Muslim Brotherhood, aka jihadists in business suits.
Walter Sieruk says
Robert Spencer in this video did mention Zohran Mamdani who is the soon to be the next mayor New York City is obviously part in the insidiousness subversive movement which is known as the “Red /Green Alliance.”
Walter Sieruk says
Zohan Mamdani with and being part of that Marxist/Islamic alliance upon entering of office of Mayor is a recipe for a future disaster for NYC.
A message, very much ,need to be sent to those stealth jihad- minded Muslims politicians, as Zohran Mamdani, and other stealth jihadists who are running for government office in the USA who attempt to have Sharia law enacted in this country. They need to be reminded that the United States had something that is far better than Sharia law. It’s the US Constitution. This is America, not Saudi Arabia or Iran.
As the former US President, Theodore Roosevelt, had well-spoken when he declared in a speech “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is only room here for only hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim politician Zohran Mamdani, is one man of the entire scheme for the advancement of Islam with it’s Sharia. This sly and subtle , sometimes no so subtle, subversive infiltration in American and other Western governments is known as the stealth jihad. This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective clever for the cause of Islamic power in nations of the West.
Furthermore, this Islamic method gradual infiltration in some ways is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads, “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you.”
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim politician Zohran Mamdani, who is now the Mayor o NYC is a very strong of the the subject of the sly and subtle as well as disingenuous non-violent methods of the goal of advancement of Islam with its Sharia in the United States, by the means what is known and called the “Stealth jihad.” By this technique the Muslims who are the stealth jihadists are able to infiltrate the United States, and gradually, “inch by inch” and likewise “step by step.” Further, archive progression for their Islamic agenda for the advancement of Islam and to establish Sharia in the United States in place of the us Constitution.
To put this in another way, with America they would like to, if they can, enact Sharia as the law land instead of the US Constitution. Realistic or not, this is their objective.
To this end the stealth jihadists will and do use the Islamic of Taqiyya, which the modus operandi of speaks and printing lies that are very deceptive.
As explained in a more detail by a former Muslim and Hezbollah member who now a Christian .In his book he reveals” Lying , treachery and deception became Islam’s key tactics in conquering others. Those tactics are gathered in a doctrinal statement called “Taqiyya” which is one of the most effective arms for the spread of Islam. It means “Holy Deception” which means the use of every lie you can in order to spread Islam or to win the war against the enemy.” [1]
]1] Islam and the Son of God by Daniel Shayesteh , page 41.
Walter Sieruk says
One concept that many Americans just don’t understand that term used, which is “political Islam.” That term is nonsensical and redundant as well as unknown in the Islamic world.
First, that term being nonsensical one devout Muslim who, truly, proclaimed “Islam is Islam.”
Second. as for that term being redundant, has been well explained by none other Ayatollah Khomeini who declared” All Islam is politics.” [1]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 332
somehistory says
“”Savvy” or “Slippery”? NYC Mayoral Hopeful Zohran Mamdani’s Controversial Stance on “Globalize the Intifada”
“MSNBC contributor Pablo Torre said on Monday that New York City’s presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s refusal to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” was “savvy.”
Mamdani failed to directly condemn the phrase, which is widely seen as a call to violence against Jews, and instead talked about his commitment to fight for “universal human rights” during a Sunday appearance on “Meet the Press.” Torre extended a compliment to Mamdani by stating that the mayoral candidate is refusing to fall into any “ideological” traps.”
I once watched that channel…back when obl was a bad guy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/msnbc-morning-joe-panelist-says-mamdani-refusing-to-condemn-anti-jewish-rhetoric-was-savvy/ar-AA1HHKkt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a2ad2c70c4d449a80d7e4d9fa3d64cf&ei=14
Jack Reynolds says
ZOHRAN MAMDANI WILL DESTROY NEW YORK CITY.
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Depending on your perspective that could be either a Bad or a Good reason to hope that he is elected.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’ll just comment about the mom – Mira Nair. She was pretty famous in India for being in the “feature film” (aka boring movies) industry… I hadn’t heard (nor bothered) about who she married, just assumed it was another Marxist
One thing I wonder – whether her husband is a Twelver shi’a, like her son is?
skeptiker says
Mamdani, komm nach Deutschland !! Hier steht die gesamte Regierungsmannschaft hinter dir und kannst, ohne großartigen Widerstand, politisch so richtig durchstarten. Die Deutschen werden dich lieben.
jerry glenn says
NYC surges in the national Islamopandering derby.
John Pepple says
I have to say that none of his proposals, as stupid and repugnant as they are, have anything to do with green issues. Also, his being a Muslim seems to mean nothing other than hating Israel and doesn’t mean, say, demanding that all NY City restaurants close during the day during the month of Ramadan or requiring all women to be in headscarves or demanding a call to prayer five times a day.
somehistory says
He wants to be elected first. First, all of the freebees, no rent increases, free bus rides, food sold only in city-owned stores to keep prices low….
He’s not about to say the things you have pointed to….they are all downers to those who like the idea of free things but would still want to dress and eat as they choose.
OLD GUY says
The most important reason to not vote for him is he follows ISLAM.
JustJim says
That alone would be enough!