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by Guy Millière • December 11, 2025 at 5:00 am
* Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)... Many of the DSA's proposals are clearly communist: the party's platform calls explicitly for the "abolition of capitalism." The DSA is also radically anti-Israel, supports defunding the police, and advocates for abolishing prisons.
* Two decades ago, Islamism was virtually absent from the US political landscape.
* Islamic antisemitism has gained ground in recent years, not just in the US but also in Europe. It appears fueled not only by adversaries of the US such as Iran, but also by domestic non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that appear to hide the identities of foreign donors.
* Many anti-Israel protesters claim to support the Palestinian cause, but oddly none of them ever calls for the Palestinians' rights from their own leaders for freedom of speech, women's and children's rights, or even for a stop to entrenched corruption, arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial executions, and other crimes against them.
* The problem was not, as some have tried to claim, simply that [Tucker] Carlson invited [the neo-Nazi Nick] Fuentes, so much as Carlson's disinclination to question what he said. The veteran journalist Edward R. Murrow invited US Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for an interview but probed his statements. Carlson failed to indicate any disapproval of, or question, Fuentes's antisemitic remarks... What Carlson did was simply to give Fuentes a platform to expand his influence, unchallenged. The interview has been viewed online more than 20 million times.
* This new hostility to Western civilization has also acted as a destabilizing force in major US foreign policy alliances. Israel, like it or not, is the United States' principal and most reliable ally in the Middle East.... As Israel is a world leader in technology, American investments there yield far more than they cost.
* Islamists and other enemies of the United States doubtless hope that if the US abandons Israel, this would lead to both a substantial weakening of America and other democracies, and a strengthening of tyrannies -- notably Islamist tyrannies.

New York City's mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Many of its proposals are clearly communist: the party's platform calls explicitly for the "abolition of capitalism." The DSA is also radically anti-Israel, supports defunding the police, and advocates for abolishing prisons. Mamdani, who will be the first Muslim mayor of New York, is also the first to associate happily with anti-American Islamists. Pictured: Mamdani speaks to the media at the White House on November 21, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

November 19. New York City. Park East Synagogue. A mob of Muslims and "leftists" block the entrance and terrorize Jews with shouts of "Globalize the intifada" and "Take another settler out." The protest took place two weeks after a self-declared socialist, Zohran Mamdani, won the New York mayoral election. His spokesperson said that he "discouraged the language" used by the protesters, but, she added, incorrectly, "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law". She was referring to an event at the synagogue hosted by Nefesh b'Nefesh (Soul to Soul), a Jewish group that facilitates immigration to Israel.

The mayor-elect seems to think that Jews confronted with hostility and violence should not be helped to seek refuge in their homeland. He also seems to think that helping them violates some unnamable, non-existent "international law".

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