Zohran Mamdani’s Actions and How They Fester Hate

The United States Of America is defined as a Republic. An organization of government in which an electorate consolidates their virtues into a representative, who hoists the values and rights of a people to the shielding arm of the law. In New York City however, newly inaugurated Zohran Mamdani has appeared to deliberately misconstrue these ideals, exchanging them for scorn and deceit towards the city’s Jewish inhabitants, in turn endangering Jews around the world.

Mamdani’s victory, despite the abundance of abhorrent evidence organizations have found, sets a harrowing precedent for what are the moral qualifications to serve the people. Numerous politicians have also taken strides to gain a near tyranny over Jewish populations, forming a political sickness, a tumor that needs to be removed. In this critique, I wish to analyze Zohran Mamdani’s actions, with respect to the Ethos of himself alongside New York City, and how his influence promotes the hatred of Jews, an already unjustly anathematized group, in the widespread sociopolitical scale.

Since the olden days of New Amsterdam, the land between New York and New Jersey was viewed as the very fruition of the American Dream. The city where all prevailed, an optimal place to avail oneself the ironic boundaries of which Locke’s perfect freedom entails, in exchange for a visitation, or even habitation in a warm, bustling, melting pot of modern democracy.

New York City has been, for centuries, the diamond of what is considered a city. We as a human race have come to view New York City as the (Big) Apple of the world’s eye. The city bustles and breathes, when it suffers or excels, we feel it in our bones.

Whilst I mention my sights in New York City, it would be sensible to discuss how I’d often get there. In the former years of my life, I travelled to and fro by Ferry. It grew to be a favorite part of the whole trip. During my visit in April of 2024, I made the switch to traveling to the city by car. It was my first Post October 7th trip, and there were questions regarding my safety as a traveler. The subways felt risky, speaking Hebrew wasn’t recommended, so we mitigated the need thereof. That same trip, I felt ill at ease as I arrived to the city. Not unsafe, yet not unwary. The Pro-Palestinian stickers weren’t negligible, neither was a sign or two. Not to mention the unscrupulous excuse of an institute of higher education in my vicinity. We all know by which name it goes.

The first time I felt enveloped in safety on that trip, was when I arrived at the Nova Exhibition, a vivid recounting display of the Nova Festival Massacre’s events, in case you were unaware. Before progressing any further in this work, I’d like to make it known that I very much enjoyed that trip nonetheless.

It is aimless to defer the question, that other Jews like me might have felt an “increased wariness” when traveling the city. That Jews like me experienced the feeling, all around the world. Now I wish to elaborate that the feeling of wariness, in New York City, is a feeling of catalyst. As stated in above paragraphs, an espoused feeling and expression in New York City is an Oracle or an elder sibling, to how ideas traverse the mouth, the web, or the world. If there is a feeling of wariness amongst Jews, and cause thereof in New York City, it is certain such will be reciprocated anywhere where humans inhabit, for their eyes, ears, and hearts gravitate towards the Big Apple. With the given contextualizations, one more metaphor may do us some good. New York City is a stage, with players of any experience. So many scenes and countless sets. It’s a famous stage, where the audience, being the world, gawks listlessly at every action. Where there is a stage, there is a director, appointed for the purpose of keeping the players in order, designing for the show to send a good and wholesome message. The actions of the director can very much affect the matters that the show produces, with quality, consistency, and perpetuity. A realization manifests, that perhaps it is not the city itself as the oracle, but rather the person running it. The mayor.

By reflex our eyes and souls are bound to New York City, we pleaded and campaigned against the now recently inaugurated mayor, Zohran Mamdani. The evidence is mountainous, that his direction will magnify and permeate peril towards Jews in New York City, and consequently the world. His bold anti-Israel sentiments, now enshrouded with insufficient remarks and indicative orders that arise every signal that the Jewish players are to be neglected, their lines distributed to select people, actors who wear a facade for a scarf, and cover their digital footprints in wilting flowers. The world, far from the stage where they could see the actors and director’s conniving faces, is already confusing the wilted flowers for bouquets. They don’t see the egregiousness of the director’s actions. Ripping away an acceptable and concrete definition of antisemitism from us on the first day in office. Permitting the channeling of fruitless anger towards already struggling Jewish businesses, in the form of authorizing boycotts and ruthless abstinences.

New York City has an ethos which can be argued as little below the almighty’s himself. An ethos of hate and exclusion in the city is far beyond dangerous, even in the most conservative estimate. The sheer number of Jews in New York City would feel it the most, but lest we think the effects are negligible, even on the other side of the planet.

Now, New York City is in no way an evil place, but with the person in power carrying evil in his actions, the said evil is broadcasted and spread to those who don’t know or wish any better. As the quote stated, light also can carry a wavelength. It is tangible and seen, and in the collective can defeat darkness with ease. So the remedy to the darkness? Spread light and good morals. Use the ethos and platform of the city, to leverage a power for your voice, echoed by orders of magnitude in the land of the American Dream. Speak out against the wrongdoings and praise the good. The world will see it. The world will hear it. Broadcasted from the land between New York and New Jersey.