As antisemitic crime soars in NYC, we all must make up for Mamdanis support of hate

Even as New York city crime trends down to historic lows thanks to the tireless efforts of New York’s Finest and Commissioner Jessica Tisch, antisemitic incidents are up almost 71% year-over-year, driving a wider rise in overall hate crime.A jump like that indicates that both underlying hate and the actual crimes it inspires are skyrocketing, and no wonder — given who last year’s mayoral election.Zohran Mamdani and his political allies have repeatedly signaled that it’s open season on New York’s Jewish population, the largest in America. Pro-Hamas thugs are conducting ongoing mini-pogroms outside synagogues under the guise of legitimate protest — and the mayor has explicitly condoned them, ratifying the lie that they merely target  supposedly illegal sales of West Bank real estate.He also fought the City Council when it passed a bill setting distance limits on protests outside all places of worship.He’s hosted rabble-rouser Mahmoud Khalil at Gracie Mansion and tweeted out the twisted antisemitic account of Israel’s founding. And of course he skipped the Israel Day parade — an event central to the sense of belonging for Jewish New Yorkers — making the signal even clearer, though he wraps it in smug grins and winky-wink TikToks. It’s not just the mayor, of course: His endorsed candidates are often even more toxic; sick City Councilwoman Shahana Hanif wished two Muslim women condemned to Hell for marching in the Israel Day parade.None of that’s a crime, nor is the Park Slope Food Co-op’s vote to boycott Israeli goods.But they are evidence of how normalized this hate has grown, even if the haters routinely pretend it’s just “anti-Zionism.” Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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