Mamdani Sent a Clear Message to NYC Jews With His Oct.
Subtlety isn't New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's strong suit. After being booed and harassed a vigil for the victims on the third anniversary of the…
Getting booed at a memorial vigil for the victims of the October 7 massacre should have been a wake-up call. Zohran Mamdani decided to hit the snooze button. Instead of reading the room, the mayor of New York chose to make a public point with his evening plans, and the message landed like a brick through a synagogue window.
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Subtlety isn't New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's strong suit. After being booed and harassed a vigil for the victims on the third anniversary of the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in Israel, he sent a very clear message to New York's Jewish community with his choice of dinner plans.
Mamdani went to dinner at the only Palestinian restaurant in the city, located on the Upper West Side. There are thousands of places for Mamdani to dine, and he chose this. Then again, we shouldn't be surprised. He met with Palestinians in New York after attending the vigil, lest his supporters think he actually cared about Jews for a second there.
NYC @NYCMayor making quite a statement. Having dinner at the only Palestinian restaurant on the Upper West Side this October 7th. pic.twitter.com/6w0FUaq47Y
The video shows Mamdani sitting inside, flanked by others, laughing and eating.
There’s no such thing as a “Palestinian” restaurant
But Mamdani is totally serious about fighting antisemitism. Trust him.
they will do anything to get over the fact that tiny Israel is the strong horse against billions of muslims and countless western anti semites Mamdani and his allies outnumber Jews over 100-1 and are helpless.
It makes them so angry they haven't wiped Israel off the map yet.
dinner at palestinian restaurant on oct 7th. jesus christ man
There is no guessing at what Mamdani's message was here. Three years after Hamas killed 1,200 people and took hundreds more hostage — including Americans — Mamdani sides with Palestine, and the terrorists who run Gaza.
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Getting booed at a memorial vigil for the victims of the October 7 massacre should have been a wake-up call. Zohran Mamdani decided to hit the snooze button. Instead of reading the room, the mayor of New York chose to make a public point with his evening plans, and the message landed like a brick through a synagogue window. You don’t need a commentary on his speech to understand where he stands. His dinner plans said it all.
It takes a special kind of tone-deafness to follow up a hostile reception at a vigil by breaking bread with the kind of people who make New York’s Jewish community feel unsafe. Mamdani could have gone home, reflected, issued a bland statement. He did the opposite. He doubled down and sent a signal that the boos and the harassment were just background noise to him. For Jews in this city, that is a clear statement: your grief is inconvenient, your security is negotiable. Not even the pretense of decency survived the night.
This isn’t about one dinner. It’s about a mayor who treats one of the city’s most resilient communities as a stumbling block on his path to progressive glory. New York Jews have heard the platitudes about solidarity. What they got from Mamdani is the real thing, the unedited version. He has shown who he answers to, and it isn’t the people mourning at that vigil. They should remember that at the ballot box. Jews are not a voting bloc to be managed, and they won’t be lectured to by someone who can’t even choose his dining companions with basic human decency.
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