By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, whose campaign took off due to his opposition to Israel, won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday in yet another rebuke of the Israel Lobby.
The first NYC mayoral debate on June 4, 2025 — wherein a moderator “violated the sanctity of the lightning round” by pressing Mamdani to declare his support for the existence of Israel as a “Jewish state” — caused his poll numbers to surge and put him within striking distance of Andrew Cuomo.
His numbers continued to climb as widespread opposition to the genocide in Gaza continued to grow, and his pledge to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in accordance with the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant electrified his base.
The Israel Lobby had all their assets, including Fox News, working frantically for months to try and tear down his campaign and prop up Democrat Andrew Cuomo, but they still failed.
Last-minute endorsements for Cuomo from President Trump and Elon Musk also had seemingly little to no effect.
Mamdani, as of 1:29 AM EST with 91% of the vote in, was winning with 50.4% of the vote — meaning that even if Curtis Sliwa dropped out and all his voters somehow magically decided they wanted to vote for Cuomo (whom they hate), Mamdani still would have won.
Unfortunately, Mamdani towards the end of his campaign started caving in to the Lobby’s demands.
He softened his pledge to arrest Netanyahu and said he’ll keep Jessica Tisch as New York Police Commissioner.
That said, Mamdani never softened his pledge to increase funding for so-called “hate crime” programs by 800% to “root out” anti-Semitism.
His victory, as far as it was a rebuke of the Israel Lobby, is a good sign, but don’t expect anything revolutionary.
It’s all theater of course as he will continue to “back track” on the Israeli lobby, and this 83 year old NYC Jewish lady might help in this effort.
https://zeteo.com/p/jewish-new-yorker-voting-for-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-election
IMHO it is more likely he’ll persecute Christians than Jews…and don’t many Jews call for the persecution of Christians? Like they do in Israel, spitting on Christians or not….
Right on, DL. Yeah, “all theater.” And the most sickening part is that there are still some who buy in to the left/right bs. Like they refuse to see the truth, no matter how much betrayal they witness, no matter that almost every politician speaks out of both sides of the mouth, no matter how much proof we have that the vote is corrupt. Still they show up, dutifully believing in the next puppet that is propped up.
I’m beginning to think that only hunger and homelessness, expanded to unprecedented levels, will get us to act. Where I live, there are pineapples and mangoes selling for $12 dollars each. Rents are through the roof. The progressive stages of communism are showcasing cruelty and slow death. Yeah, just keep voting; that’ll feed the kids.
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