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By Vita Fellig, Andrew Bernard, JNS
(June 26, 2025 / WIN) New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani’s victory in Tuesday night’s Democratic primary is alarming many Jews in the city who say that his anti-Israel rhetoric legitimizes antisemitism and deepens divisions.
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Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS that Mamdani’s electoral success portends trouble for the Jewish community in New York City.
“As an American Jew and as a human, I am truly frightened that an antisemitic communist, Mamdani, has actually promoted murdering Jews by supporting and legitimizing the antisemitic rally cry ‘globalize the intifada,’ refuses to accept the Jewish State of Israel as a Jewish state and is friendly with Israel-bashing Jew-haters,” Klein said.
Mamdani “has been mainstreamed in the most important Jewish city in America,” Klein said. “It is time to make aliyah to Israel.”
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