In the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre—where over 1,200 Israelis were slaughtered in a terror attack that included rape, arson, and the execution of children—Americans expected bipartisan moral clarity. Instead, they got something chilling: elected officials refusing to condemn terrorism.
Among them is Zohran Mamdani, a rising figure in New York’s Democrat Party and a declared mayoral candidate. Rather than condemn the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Mamdani deflected.
He labeled Israel an “apartheid regime” and failed to offer even a cursory acknowledgment of Hamas’s crimes. No mention of the children burned alive, no outrage at the systematic rape of Israeli women, no condemnation of Hamas’s use of human shields.
Mamdani’s actions reveal an emblem of a broader shift within the Democrat Party, where moral equivocation on Jewish suffering is neither punished nor punished.
In December 2024, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history, refused to allow a vote on the Antisemitism Awareness Act.
The bill, which sought to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism already recognized by over 40 democracies, would have protected Jewish students and institutions from hate masquerading as criticism of Israel.
The IHRA definition draws a clear line: denying Jews the right to self-determination or calling Israel a racist endeavor is antisemitic.
Schumer failed. He bowed to a party base increasingly influenced by radical anti-Zionist voices. Whether out of fear or political calculus, the message was unmistakable: standing up for Jews, even in the wake of mass slaughter, is no longer a priority for the Democrats.
Representative Rashida Tlaib went further. In June 2024, she introduced a resolution accusing Israel of genocide—ignoring Hamas’s war crimes and the IDF’s efforts to avoid civilian casualties.
Even more grotesque, when Jewish Americans were injured in a May 2025 terrorist attack at a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado, over 100 House Democrats refused to back a resolution condemning the violence.
Mamdani, meanwhile, has introduced the “Not on Our Dime!” bill in the New York State Legislature. The bill seeks to cut off funding to nonprofits that support “Israeli settler violence”—a vague and ominously broad phrase. What constitutes “unauthorized support”?
The bill doesn’t say. Its goal is to delegitimize any connection between American Jews and Israeli civil society.
Even Mamdani’s refusal to disavow the word “intifada”—a term associated with the deliberate murder of Jewish civilians—is telling. In interviews, he acknowledges that many view the term as a call to violence. And still, he embraces it.
Last Sunday, I spoke at a rally opposing Mamdani’s mayoral candidacy. Afterward, a teenage girl in a “Free Palestine” hat asked a question during the open forum: Why do we consider “intifada” antisemitic?
She went on to say that she understands the history—and still views the intifada as justified.
That’s the result of leaders like Mamdani. They’ve normalized extremism, romanticized violence, and confused moral clarity with colonialism.
The Second Intifada was not a “resistance.” It was a campaign of suicide bombings, mass shootings, and cafe massacres. There is no justification for that. There never was.
“Mamdani claims he doesn’t support violence, but he won’t condemn slogans that some interpret as calls to kill Jews,” legal scholar Alan Dershowitz told me. “People who lived through Russian communism, Cuban socialism, or the Venezuelan collapse would never vote for him.”
And yet Mamdani is not marginalized—he’s gaining momentum, particularly among young voters and Socialists. The platform he supports reads like a softer version of the regime my parents fled in the Soviet Union—a regime that denied Jews their rights, their dignity, and their safety.
Mamdani’s popularity is a collapse of moral consensus. The Democrat Party is no longer split between moderates and progressives. It is divided between those willing to stand up for Jews and those who will not.
History warns us: when leaders tolerate hate, it grows. When Democrats normalize silence, violence follows. If the Jewish community—if America—fails to take this moment seriously, we may find ourselves reliving history far sooner than we think.
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