Top new aide to NYC Congressman-elect Brad Lander is self-proclaimed communist, Israel-basher: report

Big Apple Dem Congressman-elect Brad Lander’s new communications director is a “publicly self-identified communist” who has bashed Israel’s right to exist, according to a new report.“There is no such thing as Israel.Not just Israel, but China, Russia, the U.S., and all the rest of them,” Jesse Myerson wrote in a November 2023 social-media post blasting the idea of national borders, citing German communist Rosa Luxemburg, which was first reported by Jewish Insider.Myerson also wrote, “Wealthy, powerful, well-connected Jews depicting themselves as part of a huddling, vulnerable minority make me sick,” in a now-deleted 2014 Twitter thread bashing “banal Zionism.”The 40-year-old communications guru for the Big Apple comptroller-turned-incoming congressman even likened the Hebrew phrase “Am Yisrael Chai” — which translates to “the people of Israel live” — with “globalize the intifada. “Of course I understand why, to many Jewish New Yorkers, ‘Globalize the intifada’ is a scary slogan,” he wrote in June 2025.

“Imagine how ‘Am Yisrael Chai’ must sound to Palestinian New Yorkers.”The commie communications professional also lamented in a 2017 piece for Jewish Currents the “troubling legacy” of Hanukkah and criticized the Maccabees — a group of Jewish rebel warriors who are considered heroes in both Judaism and Christianity — for practicing “genital mutilation.”Lander, who will represent neighborhoods stretching from Greenwood, Brooklyn, to the West Village in Manhattan starting in January, called his new aide a “proud Jewish New Yorker.”Lander has described himself as a “liberal Zionist” and accused the Jewish state of committing genocide in Gaza after the Oct.7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israel.Lander was recently mocked for “harvesting headlines” by Israel’s foreign ministry after announcing he’d been “detained” by the Israel Defense Force for working on an olive harvest in the West Bank...