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Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, distanced himself from a widely criticized demonstration outside a prominent synagogue in Manhattan on Wednesday night, where anti-Israel protesters were heard chanting “Death to the IDF” and “Globalize the intifada,” among other slogans, even as he suggested that the event, which provided information on immigrating to Israel, violated international law.
“The mayor-elect has discouraged the language used at last night’s protest and will continue to do so,” a spokesperson for Mamdani, Dora Pekec, said in a statement to Jewish Insider on Thursday. “He believes every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation, and that these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law.”
The protest, organized by an anti-Zionist group, took place outside Park East Synagogue, a historic Modern Orthodox congregation, at which an event was being held by Nefesh B’nefesh, a nonprofit that assists in Jewish immigration to Israel from North America.
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Insightful comment I ran across:
Claiming that Jews use synagogues to plot evil is a classic demagogue’s trick, designed to turn Jewish communal institutions, and those who frequent them, into legitimate targets.
Not long ago, it was said that that synagogues concealed ‘politische Besprechungen’ (political discussions) or ‘контрреволюционные собрания’ (counter revolutionary activities), a pretext to strip them of tax-exempt status, and then to clear the way for repression and violence.
Calling synagogues Zionist strongholds that promote the violation of international law is entirely consistent with the rhetoric used by Mamdani’s ideological predecessors.
It will get worse, and when it does, they will double down on synagogues being complicit in “genocide” and “violating international law,” just like so many Mamdani supporters refuse to see the murder of two Jews at the Capital Jewish Museum as a murderous hate crime.
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