A rally this week outside Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s residence in New York City, highlights Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s antisemitism problem: the fact that the mayor doesn’t really consider antisemitism a problem.
The 1,000 or so protesters were mostly Jewish. The speakers were diverse, including a Muslim woman, a Hindu activist and William Donhue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
New York is the largest Jewish city in the world, with 960,000 Jews living in the five boroughs. That it has become the epicenter of Jew-hatred in the United States is ironic. Jews have even been attacked for speaking Hebrew in the streets…