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Council Speaker Julie Menin at Crown Heights JCC legislative brunch re: Mamdani’s veto of schools protest protection bill: “No student.. trying to go to school and exit school, should not have to face intimidation, fear or harassment. “This should not be controversial. That should be basic common sense.”

If your Jewish identity only feels acceptable to your lefty friends when it’s packaged in anti-Zionism, and requires a full JFREJ outfit to prove it, you might be trying too hard.

What kind of sick monsters stockpile baby formula in tunnels while their own people starve? Hamas did exactly that, and Western institutions helped it launder the narrative and blame Israel. Read my latest in @timesofisrael: blogs.timesofisrael.com/hamas-starves-…

@curiousTricia @afalkhatib @curiousTricia What on earth are you talking about?! Ahmed wrote a beautiful message. Not a single correction is needed. Please stop “editing.” Thanks.

@afalkhatib *friends. *Israelis. Emojis shouldn't be replacements for emojis, Ahmed.

Wishing a happy Hanukkah to all of my Jewish friends 🕎 I have been connecting with so many of you after the horrendous terror attacks in Australia over the weekend; a common theme has emerged, which is a feeling of unease, and somehow being collectively held responsible for actions they did not commit. The proliferation of antisemitism and hatred is not about expressing pro-Palestine sentiments or solidarity with the people of Gaza. Hatred and violence towards the Jewish people are indeed vile acts that are devoid of any political or social message and are strictly meant as a way to intimidate and instigate division and hatred. Shame on all who have entertained any level of “understanding” where the terror attackers are coming from. For there is no world in which such acts can ever be considered legitimate or understandable. On this Hanukkah, I say to all who are grieving the losses in Australia and the rise in the scourge of antisemitism, you are seen, heard, and acknowledged. You matter and deserve safety and recognition for your unique humanity, regardless of political issues and conflicts that you have no control over. May 2026 bring us all closer together, and may the entrenched narratives give way to multiple truths, healing, and reconciliation, especially for Palestinians and Israelis 🇵🇸🕊️☮️🤝🇮🇱

@RepLaMonica I’m kind of dimbfounded that you would proudly post this—and that you would meet with them in the first place. You may want to do a little research into their organization.

Guess who dropped by to share some love from New Jersey? Enjoyed a visit from @cair_national today! Thanks for coming in! 💜

This is truly embarrassing and deeply self-deprecatory behavior; asking for forgiveness because you spoke to Israeli students who belong to your tribe, are your people, and part of your community is not going to make you more liked, accepted, or embraced by the rabid elements of the "pro-Palestine" movement and the BDS cultists who have long stopped viewing their efforts as a tactic and devolved into demonizing Jews, Israelis, and Zionists as the actual end goal. No amount of groveling to this element of the woke left will ever make you a more effective advocate for understanding, tolerance, peace, justice, or Palestinian emancipation from perpetual military occupation.

I have been watching the discourse on this app regarding the violent protests outside NY and London synagogues respectively, and frankly have been disturbed to my core that the Overton window has shifted so much that people are even thinking of justifying this. For those who aren’t aware, the synagogues were being protested because of the events they were each hosting, which were both ones encouraging making aliyah (immigrating) to Israel. While both events focused on making aliyah to Israel proper, it is my understanding that Nefesh B’Nefesh, the organisation presenting at the NY synagogue, has (slight) links to settlements in the West Bank, which has been presented as the justification for the protest. Whether or not the organisation at the event in London has ties to settlements seemed irrelevant to the protestors—they were explicit that they were objecting to immigration to Israel proper, considering the entirety of it ‘stolen land’. As someone who opposes settlements expansion, I wanted to wait before commenting in order to collect my thoughts as to why I nonetheless regard these mobs as antisemitic. Let us leave aside that the specific chants being used contained calls for violence (‘globalise the intifada’), such intimidation outside a house of worship should always be deemed unacceptable by decent people regardless of issues with a particular event therein. I have practising Catholics in my family, so this is not meant as a dig, but rather a sad statement of fact: in Ireland there was endemic sexual abuse by Catholic priests of children; I worked on a research project that focused on abuse perpetrated against Deaf schoolboys. It was not simply a case of a few bad apples, the Church actively shielded these rapists from culpability—taking them from one parish wherein complaints were made and sending them to another. Does that give Protestants in North the right to protest outside a Catholic event wherein a priest implicated in the coverup is giving a speech? Does that give Protestants the right to scream ‘child rapists’ at anyone entering the church, similar to how the antisemitic mob in London screamed ‘child killers’ to anyone entering the synagogue? No, of course not. That would be immediately—and correctly—recognised as sectarian intimidation. Similarly, this is of course not meant as a dig towards Muslims as a whole, but there is an established, reported-upon problem of imams preaching hatred against Jews in U.K. mosques. There is already a link between this preached hatred and deadly violence against British Jews; it was reported that the terrorist who murdered two Jews on Yom Kippur in Manchester attended a mosque wherein the imam called Jews ‘treacherous’. Does this give Jews the right to protest outside an event at said mosque and scream ‘Jew killers’ at innocent Muslim attendees going inside? No, of course not. That would be recognised as anti-Muslim bigotry. No one who is justifying the intimidation outside synagogues would ever justify the same being done outside a mosque or a church in the hypothetical circumstances I have outlined. Even if they were being intellectually dishonest and did justify it in the hypothetical, we live in the real world where that is all it is…a hypothetical. In reality, massive mobs screaming hatred and violence outside of houses of worship are targeting synagogues alone. In the spirit of the all-important ‘context’ that leftists delighted in lecturing us about after October 7th in order to rationalise festivalgoers being raped and slaughtered: this is happening in the context of a marked history of synagogues being burned to the ground and scattered to the four winds as part of the annihilation of 6 million Jews—one third of world Jewry—and Europe's once towering Jewish civilisation. This history matters, and it is not unreasonable for Jews to see the echoes of it in the screams of the hateful mobs outside their houses of worship. It is antisemitism.

Hamas's weaponization of UNRWA in Gaza needs to be fully exposed and understood. A newly released video that was filmed by Hamas terrorists themselves shows how the group used an UNRWA elementary school for children in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, to hide weapons that connect to an underground route. You can tell it's an UNRWA school by the use of blue window guards, a color the UN agency uses distinctly, which I remember from growing up in Gaza and attending UNRWA schools there. From its schools, clinics, and headquarters to its displacement camps during the war, the level of penetration by Hamas of UNRWA's educational and medical infrastructure points to a deeply disturbing fact: the agency is so thoroughly and deeply compromised and has massive Hamas networks operating at every rank from within. There is no way that the UN agency did not know the extent to which its system was weaponized for terrorism by Hamas. The journey to reclaim, rebuild, rejuvenate, revitalize, and reconstitute Gaza must entail the ending of UNRWA's operations inside the coastal enclave. UN agencies can and should play an interim role in the Strip's recovery, but there must never again be space for a permanent industrial complex that monopolizes the aid, acts like a humanitarian mafia, and fails to keep violent terrorists and Jihadis out of its schools, classrooms, and system. It's time to end UNRWA's presence in Gaza once and for all and to allow for new educational infrastructure to take shape, focused on bolstering pragmatism, moderation, nation-building, science and technology, and Gaza's regional integration. Video source: t.me/yediotnews25/1…

I'm Aya. I study at UNRWA school. We'll return to Israel and shооt Jews. I hate the Jews. A lot. October 7 happened to take our land back. The land cannot be divided. It's ours. I like to watch videos about Hаmаs. I want to become a martyr so I can rise up to Allah.

As a former New Yorker and NYPD officer, a lot of people have reached out to me and asked how is it possible Mamdani won the election. Well here you go… People have to understand, New York is filled with people in their 20s who moved there dreaming to make their mark on the world and get their big break…be successful. Well that doesn’t happen for almost all of them, maybe they didn’t work hard enough, maybe they got the wrong degree, or maybe they just weren’t that smart/talented in the first place… So a few years after moving there they are working as a waiter, waitress or a dead end job…they can’t afford the apartment they are in, they can’t afford going out to eat, and they are crushed under student loan debt/credit card debt…their dream has turned into a nightmare. So along comes Mamdani who promises them rent control, free food, free healthcare, free everything… And here is the Chef’s kiss…he tells them, all those people who held you down, who didn’t give you the opportunity, who wrecked your dream…I am going to tax the sh*t out of them to pay for it. When you look at it from that warped point of view…it’s easy to see why 85% of people who have lived in NYC for less than 5 years voted for him. Of course they did….

My sister was in the 1993 WTC bombing – trapped on a high floor, forced to climb down smoke-filled stairs. She suffered serious smoke inhalation and lasting trauma. She left New York City because she just couldn’t work in the Trade Center after the attack, got a job transfer and relocated to the DC area. On 9/11 she was one block from the Pentagon when the plane struck, saw it happen, and was further traumatized by another close call. I thank God I still have my sister, but I lost several friends in the WTC attack on 9/11 and continue to mourn them to this day. So many people I know have stories to tell like mine. These weren’t abstract “events“ for so many New Yorkers. They were life changing events. For Mamdani and @dr_yusefsalaam to stand with an unindicted co-conspirator in the ‘ 93 attack is deeply insensitive and shameful. It shows a stunning lack of understanding of what New Yorkers lived through and continue to live through. To laugh and smile like they are enjoying acting in such a menacing way is especially reprehensible. And Mamdani wants to be mayor? He got endorsements from @GovKathyHochul @AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastieNY , Albany leadership who are supposed to be representing all of NYS, @JerryNadler and @bradlander who look the other way every time Mamdani does something despicable. Just vote @andrewcuomo . He has a shot at stopping this insanity. @OneCityRisingNY @savetheuws @FixTheCityNYC @katiewr31413491 @LattinaBrown

Cuomo steps up during real crises. Mamdani manages protests. NYC deserves leadership, not activism.

@AmmiHirsch @ZohranKMamdani Thank you, Ammi.

.@ZohranKMamdani I do not speak for all Jews, but I do represent the views of the large majority of the NY Jewish community, which is increasingly concerned about your statements about Israel and the Jewish people. I urge you to reconsider your long-held rejection of Israel’s right to exist. Be a uniter and a peacemaker.

🚨 NEWS: Mamdani was invited to speak at CBE (Congregation Beth Elohim) in Park Slope on Sunday. A major protest by the Brooklyn Jewish community is being planned. Details below. Top Jewish community leaders are expected to deliver remarks, along with CBE congregants who are outraged with this decision. Reminder: Mamdani won’t denounce Globalize the Intifada, who routinely spreads the lie that Israel is committing a genocide, who’s a proud antizionist, who speaks at WOL rallies with Nerdeen Kiswani amongst other hate mongers. As former CBE congregant @Ramonmaislen wrote: “There is no amount of dialogue that can occur within the walls of that synagogue that will negate the harm done by the photo op that Mamdani receives just by walking through those doors.“

Breaking:  New evidence suggests Mamdani is lying about his meeting with “KILL THE GAYS” lawmaker in Uganda.   In July 2025, Mamdani and his father, Mahmood (a former professor at an Ugandan college), met with the architect of Uganda’s anti-gay laws, Rebecca Kadaga.  Those laws seek harsh criminal penalties for acts of homosexuality.  As Kadaga originally conceived the law, it included a death penalty provision and penalties for parents who don’t report their gay kids.  The media called it “the world’s harshest anti-gay law.”  [see receipts at @jimfornyc - 1st link below photo]   When the photo broke in @nypost 3 days ago, Mamdani defended, saying,  in short, “I didn’t know who she was.”  Mamdani claims his meeting with Kadaga and his father was a chance encounter at an airport.   But, Uganda Watchdog says it was an official meeting at “an upscale Kampala office.” [2nd link]   And, Mamdani’s father knows Kadaga well.  They have a long history.  For example:   As early as 2011, he publicly praised Kadaga, saying he “saluted [her] courage.”  [3rd link]     They were keynote speakers at a symposium with the Prime Minister of Uganda.  [4th link]     Most importantly, Kadaga oversaw an official demand for a parliamentary investigation of the father’s alleged academic misconduct.  [5th and 6th links]  This was when she held a role overseeing public institutions and Mamdani was head of an Institute of Social Research.   No published report describes what happened with Kadaga’s investigation, so she might have buried it. But a separate lawsuit found liability.  [7th link]   Mamdani left the university shortly thereafter.   All of this is public in Uganda.  So, Mahmood Mamdani knew PRECISELY what Rebecca Kadaga stood for. Do you believe his son’s explanation now?   Apparently, this is another example of @ZohranKMamdani thinking the media won’t do its job.  In this case, he was right.  We offered this information to reporters, who passed on the story.   Bottom Line:  This isn’t about Uganda. It’s about honesty, integrity, and hypocrisy. Mamdani built his platform on equality and human rights.  But, this new evidence suggests he lied to sanitize an official meeting with one of the world’s most notorious anti-LGBTQ figures.

@davidfrum Thank you, @davidfrum.

This is a genuinely useful statement. The chilly formulaic language about the 10/7 atrocity ... the intense angry passion of the denunciation of Israel's self-defense ... together they arrestingly reveal what the author cares about and what/who he does not care about.

Mo Khan, the Temple student who said Dave Portnoy “wrongfully” called him antisemitic, just posted a video titled “how Jews workout” with pennies on a treadmill. The same guy who can’t curl 20 pounds feels bold enough to mock Jews online.

@MilaLovesJoe Are you a real person… or just a vibes-based algorithm? Posting “ZERO illegal crossings” in May 2025—with no source, no data, no context—is impressively lazy. So if you’re real, drop a credible link. If not…

In May 2021, 180,034 crossed our border illegally. In May 2022, it was 239,416. In May 2023, it was 266,690. In May 2024, it was 180,716. In May 2025, ZERO crossed our border illegally. We didn't need new laws. We just needed a new President.

@joshuarolson @Aizenberg55 @PeterBeinart @ZohranKMamdani @andrewcuomo @NYMag Seriously, Josh? That’s not constructive, and it’s a ridiculous response. You want to have dialogue? Fine. Throwing out “nazi” is just proof that you are wildly misguided.

@Aizenberg55 @PeterBeinart @ZohranKMamdani @andrewcuomo @NYMag Shut up, Nazi

It's fine to ask @ZohranKMamdani about "globalize the intifada." I get why it disturbs most Jews. But NY Magazine just published a 10K word cover story arguing that Israel has committed "hundreds, if not thousands, of war crimes in Gaza." @andrewcuomo is Netanyahu's lawyer. What does it say about the media's view of Palestinian life that that's considered less important in this race?

Together, Mamdani and Hanif are building a movement that treats our collective Jewish safety/identity as expendable. If you’re voting against Mamdani and you live in NYC D39 (central Brooklyn) don’t forget: Shahana Hanif is part of the same antisemetic and antizionist machine.

This week, D39 CM Shahana Hanif endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor. I’m not surprised…they share the same agenda. Hanif called it “harmful” to fund Jewish nonprofits. Mamdani wants to criminalize Jewish support for Israel.