End Jews voted for Mamdani

Yes, many Jews voted for Mamdani despite his keeping (with a little wiggle) his endorsement of “globalize the intifada”. To put this in perspective, some 1000 Jews were killed in the 2nd intifada; most of these were civilians, a bomb thrown into a disco, into a communal seder, etc. So the intifada was the random murder of ordinary non-military Israelis. Can “globalize the intifada” mean anything except an endorsement to kill Jews wherever they are found? Apparently several hundred thousand Jews in New York thought this was not enough to withhold a vote for Mamdani.

Much has and will be written, said, about the Jewish vote for Mamdani, this being the vote that materially helped him to the mayor’s office. I don’t live in New York but the senior’s condo where I do live includes many former New York Jews and these live by the New Yorker and the New York Times. More, these are end-Jews, people of whom I have previously written in these blogs (July 7, 2025) as Jews who themselves or their progeny are the last of their Jewish lineage. Their attachment to a Jewish line of plus 3000 years is now superseded by an attachment to a cause of claimed social justice derived from 2 words in the Aleinu prayer, or from a rewritten Haggadah, or from Rabbis who have redefined the Rabbinate, or extolls non-Jews, or in most instances has no connection whatsoever that would link them to their parents’ history. But when it is politically useful they call themselves Jewish.

That politically useful cause is to pretend that Jew hating groups are not Jew haters because they inoculate the group against Jew hating; their public proclamation as Jews absolves their group of Jew hating. That group universally is ultra-left wing and they will personally adhere to that group at the expense of reasoned argument, life long friends, family members. These end-Jews will give money and time to defend a cause which in all instances has pilloried ordinary Jews. The price to stay in their cause is that they must denounce Israel and those Jews who support it and they must continue to give money and time to the Zionist haters, no questions answered. Yes, there are right wing Jew haters but these are small numbers in the USA compared to the left. The left shouts and shouts about the right wing thus deflecting their own position from scrutiny.

I am a USA born secular Jew of immigrant parents from Russia and the USSR. My parents could not escape socialism/communism fast enough. My uncle was executed by Stalin’s people in 1938 under charge as a foreign agent (he was a Zionist still living in the USSR). My recollection of the Jewish condition in the USA goes back to the 1930’s and 40’s, the America Firsters, the Coughlins, Roosevelt’s denial of the St. Louis. I have never seen Jew hating at the intensity that now exists in the USA. It will be history revisited to see what happens to these end-Jews as their children and grandchildren are denied upscale public education and their political requests are pushed to the end of the line. To the extent that the new Mayor’s office will be staffed by people who are hostile to them, even though they denounce their brethren Jews, many will say, as did the Yiddish oriented Jews for Stalin, this is the price we pay for progress. Will those Jews writing for the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Nation ever change? USA Jewry, as it has existed for the last 100 years, is in jeopardy.