A complete lack of evidence is not in any way going to stop the Times from telling its lies.
There was a time when people took the New York Times seriously. That was long ago.
Back in the day, if the New York Times ran a story, you would assume they would have at least some basis for it. These days, the Times runs a picture of a baby with medical problems and claims it proves there’s hunger in Gaza. It crops out the picture of the kid’s chubby brother and ignores warnings from its editors that it’s being dishonest.
Still you would think that running a story headlined ‘Many Jewish Voters Back Mamdani. And Many Agree With Him on Gaza’ would be backed by some kind of data.
Any.kind of data beyond anecdotal interviews. How much do many turn out to be? 5.
Mr. Mamdani’s commanding victory in the Democratic primary for mayor alarmed many Jews who are concerned by his outspoken criticism of Israel. But he won the votes of many other Jewish New Yorkers
How many? What is the Times’ basis for this assertion beyond its anecdotal interviews with leftist supporters? Zero.
It is difficult to determine how many Jewish voters supported Mr. Mamdani because even in New York, the Jewish population is too small to be measured with precision by most polls. Neighborhoods with large numbers of Orthodox Jewish residents voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Cuomo. He also won other heavily Jewish areas like Riverdale in the Bronx, though outside of Orthodox neighborhoods, the Jewish population is generally not concentrated enough to allow analysis using precinct-level vote data.
Jewish populations are actually pretty concentrated. But the Times admits that the only actual data for Jewish voters says that they voted for Cuomo.
So it starts pounding the pulpit, waving its arms and arguing that since a lot of people voted for Mamdani… some must have been Jews. Also Mamdani campaigned with a Jewish guy so surely… Jews voted for him.
“Data from the ranked-choice voting process also shows that Mr. Mamdani was selected as an alternate choice by two-thirds of voters whose top choice was Brad Lander, the city comptroller and the highest-ranking Jewish official in city government, who made his identity a key part of his campaign and who cross-endorsed Mr. Mamdani during the primary.”
Brad Lander is another anti-Israel leftist.
Using Times logic though, Sen. Bernie Sanders is of Jewish ancestry, so Jews must have not only voted for him, but for AOC, whom he supports.
Jeffrey Lerner, Mr. Mamdani’s communications director and one of his many Jewish advisers, said in a statement that it was “no surprise that thousands of Jewish New Yorkers proudly cast their ballots for Zohran in the June primary, despite relentless fearmongering from Republicans and the billionaire class.”
Thousands. In a city with a Jewish population of 1.2 million. And that’s the best Mamdani’s comms guy can do.
The rest of the article is the Times’ Liam Stack interviewing a handful of leftist Mamdani backers of Jewish ancestry. How many? Five.
Yes, the New York Times interviewed 5 people of Jewish ancestry. One of them canvassed for the Mamdani campaign. This somehow becomes “many” in the New York Times headline.
The days when the paper had any credibility left are really long gone.
Kevin Kraemer says
Wow, 5 whole people, obviously deluded, think a communist hater of Jews believe this guy would be good for NYC. It reminds me of Jannes and Jambres.
somehistory says
Many moons ago, the NYT was a *source* which was accepted by university professors when writing research papers.
Now, our pet birds would reject the paper for their business interests.
Wellington says
You have more decency in your little finger, somehistory, than the entire editorial board of The New York Times.
somehistory says
Wellington, You leave me speechless. Thank you.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
John says
New York Times anagram – monkeys write.
gravenimage says
I had not heard this one–brilliant!
James Lincoln says
Officially: “All the news that’s fit to print”
In reality: “All the propaganda that’s fit to spew”
Taffy says
How about “not fit to line your birdcage!”
abu taleb says
Probably there are indeed, we never know. If a guy like Mamdani, AOC, Biden etc has many supporters, then it is possible there are Jews supporting Mamdani. They can be very foolish, or they are just sumpky bad people, bad people certainly support other bad people.
Paul says
Well 80 percent are f-ing retarted anyway. Here’s a thought experiment. Mamdani runs against Trump , what pct of Jewish vote does Cumdami get? 80 percent.
The Jewish lobbies called Trump the leader of anti semitism in America.
JDCA has repeatedly branded Trump as antisemitic, describing him as the “biggest threat to American Jews”
JDCA (Jewish Democratic Council of America)
• Publicly asserted that Trump is the primary threat to American Jews and suggested his rhetoric emboldened antisemitic violence, making him effectively a leading figure in mainstreaming antisemitism
JDCA leadership framed Trump as enabling the rise of antisemitic movements
I won’t even start with ADL.
So trump has done so much for Israel and the Jewish citizens here, but this is how they think. Make it make sense.
Mamdani beats Trump by 80 points in a hypothetical race for any position in Jewish vote.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I think that attitude of too many US Jews is what drives the newly emergent antisemitism on the Right that Daniel wrote about at 5:00
I would suggest that we decouple these 2 things –
⮞ American Jews who trend Left, supporting all sorts of sociopathic social policies in the US, from gay marriage to LGBTQIA+
vs
⮞ Israel & Israeli people, who are not into those things
I for one wholeheartedly support the latter. However, about the former, I am very wary to say in the least, given that 6 outta 10 support the Dems
gravenimage says
Infidel–with all respect–the idea that Muslms and thugs hate and want to murder Jews because some are too left-wing in the West is mistaken. It is not primarily conservativs who want to murder Jews, as would be the case if what you said was true.
There are lots of silly people who are too left-wing, qnd there is nothing like the organized murderous antisemitism we are seeing today.
Paul says
Michael savage once said, they’ll keep voting Democrat up until the cattle carts roll back in.
And the driver of the train will be Mamdani, and they’ll probably believe he’s taking them to Disney land.
For the 20 percent of Jews that get it, I don’t understand how they can’t get it thru their 80 percent what the reality is… someone explain
gravenimage says
New York Times Interviews 5 People, Claims ‘Many Jews Support Mamdani’
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So the NYT found 5 Jewish people somewhere in NYC who like Mamdani–alway assuming they were not made up out of whole cloth. Impressive… sarc/off
Westman says
For brief time major media just reported the news. Now they try to run the nation and join the universities in convincing the youth that losing freedom for imagined security is the future.
I must admit that if the promoters of AI actually displace workers as they envision, a world-class exercise of greed, there will be a revolution similar to the Bolshevics.
We have started down the road that Marx described, making “maximum return to shareholders without concern for others” the maxim. The last generation of young adults can’t buy a house now. When AI is used to take their jobs, the result will be predictable.
The last two generations haven’t had break-even numbers of children which should have begun to force housing prices down as the baby-boomers are passing away. But with excessive immigration it is not happening – another reason why Islamic immigration is detrimental for the US, keeping the native young adults from owning their own homes.
gravenimage says
Ah, yes–because things were so much better under the Luddites, the Stalinists and Maoists! Smashing looms certainly inproved the economy, and what was better than empty shelves in the Soviet Union?
And of course–as predicted 40 years ago–no one has had a job since computers came to be widely used… Nothing good came of that–I guess that internet thing didn’t pan out, either…
You know what’s *really* old school? Islam! No concerns about troublsome technology there–and of course the wealthiest and most innovative of societies–or maybe not…
Tim gallagher says
Jewish people voting for any Muslim anywhere at any time is the very definition of insanity. It is as insane as Jewish people voting Hitler and the Nazis. Truly, you couldn’t make this stuff up. What a bizarre world we live in.
England Invaded says
Nip the gaslighting in the bud. Had it for decades in the UK for the ‘slims.
OLD GUY says
Mam Dami will turn NY into the city of the damed . Someone please tell me what his qualifications are to run a city the size of NY. What management or leadership roles of a large organization has he had successfully?
Seems like his best qualification is that he is a loud mouth ex-rapper. WOW!