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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani‘s campaign was focused on local issues, specifically affordability. Since being elected, though, he’s begun showcasing his true vision: a city focused on pro-Palestinian globalism where local and national law are secondary to the demands of global bureaucrats and Palestinian activists.
Most conservatives recognized that Mamdani’s happy warrior demeanor and hyper focus on affordability were a sham throughout his campaign, highlighting his past comments about communism, his lax attitude toward antisemitism, and his hatred of police. Gullible liberals bought the act, though, convinced that the communist would make life more affordable for New Yorkers and that he was a true uniting figure who could bring everyone together with his smile. National Democrats appear convinced his campaign could become a model for 2026 and 2028.
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But the mask slipped off right after the election. Even the editorial board of the left-wing Washington Post recognized this, describing his victory speech as “23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment,” where he “abandoned his cool disposition and made clear that his view of politics isn’t about unity.” According to the editorial board, Mamdani’s view of politics is all about “identifying class enemies — from landlords who take advantage of tenants to “the bosses” who exploit workers — and then crushing them.”
Yes, we told you so.
We are now starting to see what Mamdani’s resentment-based crushing of his “enemies” is going to look like in the Big Apple. It is going to be like the resentment that defines globalist organizations such as the United Nations, that antisemitic bureaucratic pit where human rights and freedoms go to die. In this case, Mamdani’s enemies are, of course, the Jews.
Mamdani’s proclamation that New York City will enforce not American law or New York state law, but “international law” is notable. The one consistent crack in Mamdani’s affordability-focused campaign is his promise to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested should he set foot in the city. The antisemitic, anti-American, pro-China bureaucrats at the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, based on Palestinian terrorist propaganda about the “genocide” in Gaza.
According to Mamdani, this means that New York police officers must enforce whatever those global bureaucrats demand. “Being a city of international law means looking to uphold international law,” Mamdani said. “And that means upholding the warrants from the International Criminal Court, whether they’re for Benjamin Netanyahu or Vladimir Putin.” The United States is not even a member of the International Criminal Court, having not ratified the treaty. Mamdani has unilaterally decided that New York City must abide by ICC dictates, though, because that means he can try to arrest the leader of the world’s only Jewish country on charges relating to a fake genocide.
“International law” is not just Mamdani’s excuse to arrest Netanyahu, though, but his excuse to harass and allow the harassment of Jews at synagogues in New York City. On Wednesday, a mob of antisemites swarmed a synagogue to chant “Death to the IDF” and “Globalize the intifada.” (Remember, Mamdani and his ilk insist these people are just “anti-Israel” and not antisemitic, even as they target synagogues full of Jewish New Yorkers).
After meekly “discouraging” the language used by the protesters, Mamdani’s team justified the protest by declaring that the synagogue was being “used to promote activities in violation of international law.” The violation of international law in question was an event by a nonprofit that helps Jews immigrate to Israel.
Mamdani, who ran with a hyper focus on New York City housing, took just a few weeks to lecture Jewish people about housing rules in the Middle East. The “international law” dictated by unelected pro-Palestinian bureaucrats is, and was always going to be, Mamdani’s primary concern.
Meanwhile, Mamdani is already looking to transform New York City into the same kind of antisemitic, “pro-Palestine” pit that every other globalist governing body has become. Mamdani has endorsed Palestinian activist Aber Kawas for a New York Assembly seat representing Queens. It is his first endorsement as the new top dog in the Big Apple, and it shows exactly what he wants to turn New York City and New York state into during his tenure.
Kawas downplayed the 9/11 terror attacks because of “genocides and slavery” from our American system of “capitalism and racism and white supremacy… and Islamophobia.” Kawas in the past has called convicted terrorists “imprisoned heroes” and said that “we cannot rest until each and everyone is free.”
That is the kind of politician that Mamdani wants to see in the New York State legislature. He wants to impose “international law” on New Yorkers, enforcing the dictates of unelected global bureaucrats who answer to no one, in the process justifying the harassment of Jewish New Yorkers. He wants to turn the NYPD into an enforcement arm of those same global bureaucrats, making arrests on behalf of Palestinian terrorists and the fools who fall for their propaganda time and time again. The “cost of living” and “unaffordable housing” campaigning was all an act to mask who Mamdani really is: a grievance-mongering globalist who cares little for the American justice system.
To top it all off, Mamdani is already running into the problem that communists always run into: money. He said that he would make buses free in New York City, with an initial (low) estimated cost of $700 million, by raising the state corporate tax. When confronted by a reporter with the fact that Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul has already shut down that idea, Mamdani replied that there is “still a case to be made,” but “I’ve also said that, if there are other ways to raise this funding, the most important fact is that we fund it, not the question of how we do it.”
The most important fact is that we fund it, don’t question how, but there are other ways. What could he mean by that?
Perhaps his heavily produced video asking supporters for more fundraising help after winning the election can provide some clues. Mamdani, fanning himself with giant pieces of fake money, asked his supporters to help fund his transition so that he can plan his inauguration, pay his staff, and read resumes. He tacitly shamed his supporters for not being as eager to donate as supporters of outgoing Mayor Eric Adams, and set a humble goal of $4 million. In what will come to be known as the defining description of Mamdani’s political project, he explained, “I hope very soon not to have to ask you for money, but until then, I’m asking.”
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Just remember, the most important question is that we fund it, not the question of how we do it.
Mamdani is making it clear exactly what his administration will look like in New York City, and what he wants to turn the city (and state) into before he leaves office. This was always going to be the result of a Mamdani victory, because Mamdani was always an ideologue masquerading as a champion for people who just want to afford an apartment in America’s most iconic city.
