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Israel’s looming crisis with young Republicans

This past week we were given a stark reminder of how Israel has lost the bipartisan support of the Democratic Party, nothing new here. Brett McGurk, a senior adviser to former Democratic President Joe Biden, sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu suggested during a recent press conference that the partial US weapons embargo imposed by the Biden Democratic administration was among the factors that contributed to IDF soldiers being killed and wounded in action during the October 7^th war against Hamas. McGurk added that Biden’s “commitment to Israel's security was unwavering throughout the crisis”. However a simple fact-check shows that: Biden imposed a partial arms embargo on Israel; halted the transfer of D9 bulldozers (a critical component of urban warfare in the Gaza front) that Israel had already paid for; Merkava tanks and Self-propelled Howitzers were sent on missions to “soften” forward enemy positions with limited ammunition payloads due to the American embargo, resulting in IDF soldiers being exposed to unnecessary risk. The Biden administration put counterproductive public pressure on Israel enabling Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to believe that he could stretch out hostage negotiations for years. Biden opposed the assassination of Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah. The list goes on and on. Within today’s Democratic Party, Jew haters and anti-Semites are mainstream; NYC Mamdani being only the most recent example of today’s anti-Semitic Democratic leadership.

Alongside the Democratic Party veering into open anti-Semitism and opting to end bipartisan support for Israel, there has also been a parallel shift and erosion of support for Israel among young Republicans that needs to be acknowledged. Hostility within the Republican Party toward the US–Israel alliance has been strengthened by underlying trends of Christian nationalism. It has become impossible not to notice the number of right wing influencers—led by Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Candace Owens—who have been given wide mainstream and social media exposure, and have successfully poisoned the minds of young Republicans and future Republican leaders who spend hours and hours per day on social media and are swayed by content that is purposely produced to elicit anti-Jewish and anti-Israel positions. In a recent Pew survey, half of Republicans under the age 50 expressed an unfavorable view of Israel.

According to these influencers of hate, much of their ideas and way of thinking that they express can be easily found in the “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”; according to these influencers, Jews have been behind every left-wing cause and degenerate social trend since Marx launched his assault on Western civilization. Jews bankrolled the civil rights movement, which destroyed the Constitution, championed open borders and the resulting demographic transformation of America, are responsible for the soft-on-crime policies that have ruined countless American cities. Jewish intellectuals devised and promoted communism, psychoanalysis, sexual liberation, feminism, critical theory, multiculturalism, and a host of other corrosive ideologies that have rotted the American mind and destroyed the fabric of American society. Tucker Carlson has claimed that the Israelis are to blame for 9/11. At the very least, Tucker Carlson has suggested, that Israel had foreknowledge of the attack but kept quiet as they wanted the United States to get ensnared in the Middle East.

Meanwhile, Jewish control of the media and Hollywood allows them to deceive honest Christian Republicans. This “new-old” world view has been summarized by the evolutionary anti-Semitic psychologist Kevin MacDonald who attributes nefarious influence to the Jews; According to MacDonald, American society has not committed societal suicide, it was killed by the Jews. The logical extension of this line of thinking goes one step further and claims that the nefarious influence attributed to Jews is not confined to American domestic policy. The Israelis, in cahoots with American Jews here at home, have hijacked American foreign policy to advance their Jewish interests on America’s expense. In the coming years, it will become increasingly difficult to achieve the level of backing Israel has taken for granted from the Republican Party in recent years.

President Trump as a Republican leader has immense influence on the direction of the Republican Party in the coming years and can have a significant role in containing the spread of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel attitudes among young Republicans. President Trump continues to maintain the political support not only of conservative elite circles, but equally important among the average Republican, young and old, who aspire to make America a nation based on traditional values. Prime Minister Netanyahu has over the past two years elevated to an unprecedented level Israel’s standing among the current Republican administration by successfully sustaining a close strategic relationship with President Trump and his advisors. This access can be used to get Republican leaders to consider effective measures aimed at containing and delegitimizing the worst expressions of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment among young Republicans.

The State of Israel has to initiate social media campaigns targeting millions of Christian believers by deploying internet based technologies to make the virtual world more pro-Israel. For Christians, standing with Israel is not about endorsing every policy or decision by the Israeli government, it is about aligning oneself with God who has chosen to bless, as written repeatedly in the scriptures, the Jews and the nation of Israel. It is about refusing to hate whom God has chosen to bless. Nations as well as individuals are judged by how they treat God’s chosen people, the Jewish nation. Christian support for Israel is theological, not political or swayed by anti-Semitic influencers spreading their false messianic messages.

To stand with Israel and the Jews, is to stand with the truthfulness of God’s promises. Christian Republicans, young and old, who take the Bible seriously are natural partners to ensure that the Republican Party will not go in the direction of the Democratic Party, and sustain their biblical responsibility towards Jews and the State of Israel.

Refusing to see the writing on the wall

The murder of 15 Australian Jews in the Sydney massacre in the words of New York City’s Mayor, Eric Adams is the 'actualization of globalize the intifada’. What is perfectly clear to Mayor Adams is somehow lost on so many of New York’s Jewish organizations and their leadership. Islamic organizations and their radicalized supporters who have turned out in the hundreds of thousands over the past two years, dismiss the idea of co-existence, they pay no lip service to the two-state solution, and proudly express their desire to annihilate the Jews, all the Jews, wherever they are, whether in downtown Manhattan or in downtown Jerusalem. It seems that the limits of the first amendment and the legal constraints of incitement have no relevancy when Jews are concerned.

Despite this Islamic desire to eradicate the Jewish people, New York’s Jewish leadership are still spewing out the same outdated and politically correct messages in the name of New York’s Jewish community. They refuse to see the writing on the wall, they shy away from gas lighting that support for Hamas plants the seeds of the Islamic threat to Jews in America and to American society as a whole. Over the past two years since the October 7^th massacre, Hamas’ Islamic terrorists and their outspoken supporters have enjoyed the status of celebrities and have been welcomed in the corridors of power and intelligentsia throughout Europe and the United States. No real accountability has been demanded, and no legal or financial deterrence has been provided by the judicial system thereby quietly condoning the rage, violence, and calls for the annihilation of Israel and Jews everywhere.

So how have New York’s Jewish leadership (who happen to support a progressive political agenda) responded? Below are just a few examples of their useless and condescending rhetoric:

• “The pain is beyond description”

• “Our spirit is not broken. The Jewish response to challenge has never been fear or retreat — the Jewish response is to add more light”

• The massacre, “it made me feel my Judaism even stronger.”

• “We still have to be proud of who we are, we still have to celebrate. That’s why we’re all here”

• “Good will always outshine hate”

• “Together, we must work to build a world in which Jews and ‘all people’ can celebrate their faith and their identities without fear of violence.”

• “Wishing you light, strength, and safety as we enter Hanukkah”
  

The clear and present danger for Jews demands that the Jewish leadership of New York stop pandering to the progressive elite within the corridors of Congress and within the Democratic Party at local and national levels. Democratic congressional representatives such as Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Jamal Bowman, Cori Bush, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) who have given their full support to the incitement and violence sweeping the streets of America against American Jews. They have refrained from condemning the calls to eradicate the state of Israel, and have not condemned the acts of violence against American Jews during the demonstrations. These powerbrokers of Jew hatred must be exposed for what they are supporting: The rage and hatred expressed by Hamas supporters will not stop with the Jews and will slowly take form against all non-Muslims, meaning everyone else in the United States who is not of the Islamic faith.

Over the past two years since the October 7^th massacre, New York’s Jewish leadership have raised more than one billion dollars. A sizeable portion of this incredible amount should be siphoned to create a whole new strategy to combat Jew hatred. A whole army of Jewish and non-Jewish lawyers, investigators, social media specialists, must be enlisted to go after every politician, every district attorney, every police commander, every Hamas supporter who have enjoyed immunity and have not been held accountable for enabling the public discourse to threaten, intimidate, and promote physical violence against Jews and their communal institutions.

Only by going on the offensive, can the tide be turned in the war of annihilistic anti-Semitism. Political correctness and pandering to the progressive left will no longer be sustainable. Going after the inciters, the attackers, the supporters who enable an atmosphere of intimidation and fear directed against Jews is the only solution that can begin to change the direction that American society is heading towards.

For the past thirty years, the people of Israel where forced-fed a steady diet of progressive messages that the Palestinians will eventually turn a new leaf and will embrace the two-state solution, and that peace is just around the corner. Victims of terror, were rebranded as victims of the peace process. Every effort was made to avoid taking the offensive; military strategies where based on a defensive posture, and “mowing the lawn” became the pervasive panacea for all security threats. What we got in response was not a true partner for peace but the massacre of Oct 7^th. The greatest single day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

New York City’s Jewish leadership must be willing to declare war against these Islamic inspired global movements and organizations; fully funded, and highly capable influence system that mobilizes mass protests, fuels hatred of Jews, and sustains waves of Jew hatred on university campuses and on the streets of America. Israel has been turned into a symbol of evil for an entire generation who have no idea where Palestine is even located. Now is the time to make a joint declaration of war, a joint front for the Jews of the world and for the State of Israel. Together we can defeat annihilistic Jew hatred and turn the tide of history.

The Polite Jihadist

New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s successful run for the city’s top job became a reality in part by getting 97% of the Muslim vote in New York’s five boroughs. However, to clinch the election, he was boosted by upwards of 35% of the Jewish vote. Mamdani’s progressive platform of free housing, rent control on private and public housing, free public transportation, city run supermarkets, significantly downsizing the NYPD, and free daycare ensured that the general public will buy into his election platform of free-giveaways, despite him being unable under any budgetary scenarios to follow through with his election promises the day after. Mamdani’s hatred of capitalism and wealthy white New Yorker’s has been a cornerstone of his election run.

Mamdani is a polite, youngish, articulate, and photogenic individual who has portrayed himself as a progressive/socialist man of the people, who cares for all New Yorker’s. Yet from day one, he has surrounding himself with advisors who have publicly supported the Palestinian terror organization Hamas, and have denied the Oct 7th barbaric massacre of Israeli civilians living adjacent to the Gaza Strip. Mamdani has refused to expose and explicitly condemn the culture of violence proudly displayed during the Pro-Hamas demonstrations on the streets and campuses of New York City. To be perfectly clear, Mamdani is an anti-Semite who refuses to condemn Hamas, their supporters or their murderous calls to “globalize the intifada”, synonymous for calling for the destruction of the State of Israel. Despite all this, he has convinced 35% of the Jewish constituency of New York City, perfectly reasonable people, to act against their own best interests.

To understand what’s in store for New York City, and for New York’s Jews, all we have to do is take a glimpse into what’s happening in London, England, a city run by a Muslim mayor since 2016. London’s current Mayor Sadiq Kahn is a practicing Muslim, polite and has a western appearance. He regularly attends the Al-Muzzammil mosque in Tooting. He has two daughters, both raised in the Islamic faith. Khan could have over the years forcibly reinforced the idea that practicing Muslims such as himself are modern citizens who happen to worship Allah, yet do not belong to any kind of belief in the preeminence of Sharia Law which clearly is based on the belief that Sharia Law must be imposed on all non-Muslims. Islamist terror being the logical extension of this imposition. Mayor Kahn could have stated that the former would not pose a threat to England or the Western lifestyle while the latter would be a “mortal threat,” but has refrained from making this distinction. The Islamic wave felt throughout London and all of England in recent years arises not from the fact that people practicing the Islamic religion are Muslim, but rather from the degree to which they adhere to the totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine of Sharia. Mayor Sadiq Kahn could have had a significant impact on the minds and hearts of many of London’s young Muslims, being a role model for Muslims who have enjoyed the privileges and benefits of living and prospering in a Western society. Mayor Sadiq Kahn could have abandoned the politically correct rhetoric about Islam and the legitimacy of terror to advance political goals, but here too he has refrained and turned a blind eye.

The wave of Islamic terror on the streets and campuses of London and other major cities such as Manchester in recent years has reinforced the general feeling that the excessive political correctness over the years by Mayor Kahn, the progressive Labor Party, the police forces, the judiciary system, and the mainstream media have all fostered and festered breeding grounds for Islamic terrorists in the very heart of London, England. It is no surprise that in recent years, police forces have turned a blind eye towards Muslim gangs roaming the streets of London and sexually attacking white British women. Critics of London’s Mayor, Sadiq Kahn and critics of New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani have all been silenced due to the excessive and almost Pavlovian accusation that fair criticism of Islam or even suggesting at the very least, that Mamdani as a practicing Muslim is an issue that should raise concern among New Yorkers are silenced and accused of Islamophobia. This silence will come at a very steep price.

To fully understand how the election of Zohran Mamdani will forever change the reality of living in New York, again, let’s examine the changes in London over the past decade since a Muslim mayor was elected; The Policy Exchange report: “Unsettled Belonging: A survey of Britain’s Muslim communities”, published in 2016, found that 53% of Muslims were born outside the United Kingdom, while 93% had parents born outside the UK. This demonstrates that an overwhelming majority of the expected Muslim population growth in New York City will occur through immigration. The survey found that 96% of British Muslims believe that the attacks of 9/11 were not carried out by Al Qaeda. 43% of Muslims supported the introduction of Sharia law. 53% preferred to send their children to a school with strong ‘Muslim values’. 44% said that schools should be able to insist on ‘a hijab or niqab’ in uniform. 7% of Muslims support the objective to create an Islamic state. There is a small minority of British Muslims, 3% out of 4 million Muslims, around 120,000 people (not an insignificant number) supporting violent means of establishing a caliphate. When it comes to free speech, the same survey found that 78% believed that no publication should have the right to publish pictures of Muhammad. Muslims are thus very intolerant of criticism of their religion and do not support free speech in this respect. The survey asked whether violence is justified in a number of situations. As many as 24% sympathized with violence by organized groups to protect their religion. 18% sympathized with violence against those who mock Muhammad. 31% agreed that it is acceptable for British Muslims to keep more than one wife, even though it is illegal. 35% believed that Jewish people have too much power in Britain.

A more recent polling carried out on behalf of the Henry Jackson Society in 2024 found that only 24% of British Muslims believe that Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7, 2023. 29% of British Muslims have a positive view of Hamas, and 32% supported the introduction of Sharia law. 21% supported legalizing polygamy and 57% supported compulsory Halal food in all schools and hospitals. The statistics reveal the general trend that the white British population of London has declined from 60 percent to 37 percent. The Muslim population of London has nearly doubled.

New York City is expected to evolve into a metropolitan with an overall Muslim population majority with all of the cultural ramifications of living in a Muslim society. Public safety will be left to the sidelines of Mamdani’s political and municipal agenda, and the powers of the NYPD will be curtailed significantly allowing Islamist extremism to flourish. New York Jews will be the main victims of the expected Muslim majority but not the only expected victims. Violent Muslim civil disobedience will become a daily threat, and any criticism of New York City becoming just another failed Muslim city like London, Cairo, and Bagdad will be forever silenced.

Mamdani and the bigotry of low expectations

For Mamdani it’s all about giving American Muslims, their radicalized supporters and Palestinian Arabs a pass on behavior that he would otherwise find unacceptable, even criminal, if perpetrated by Americans who do not belong to these minority groups.

There can be little doubt that Zohran Mamdani poses a threat to the safety of New York City residents who are not Muslim. Mamdani’s political agenda poses a clear and present danger to all Jews who live within the five boroughs. Mamdani despises wealthy New Yorkers, and their capitalist wealth, which is what built up New York City over the past century, making it one of the greatest cities in the world. Mamdani promises radical socialist change dressed up as moral renewal. Mamdani has been reluctant to expose and explicitly condemn the culture of violence proudly paraded during the Pro-Hamas demonstrations on the streets and campuses of New York City, and is the perfect example of how radicalized socialists embrace and legitimize ideologies based on the bigotry of low expectations. To be perfectly clear, Mamdani is an open anti-Semite who refuses to condemn Hamas, their supporters or their murderous calls to “globalize the intifada” on the streets of New York City.

Mamdani’s does in fact articulate his political promises effectively and convincingly in a manner that even seems to make sense; free public transportation, free universal day care, subsidized and rent freeze on housing, city run grocery stores and supermarkets, are his main selling points. Yet, due to his condescending predisposition, and his bigotry of low expectations, he assumes that the public doesn’t understand that the tax burden will increase in the tune of tens of billions of dollars for all of these free giveaways. Mamdani arrogantly assumes that the State Governor and state assembly of New York State will grant him State approval, when in fact he knows that his political promises are a budgetary non-starter. Evidently, despite Mamdani being of the Muslim faith, he believes in Santa Claus who hands out gifts to everyone, otherwise his promises are a populist agenda that will never see light.

Public safety on the streets of New York City is left to the sidelines of Mamdani’s political agenda despite his plans for sizing down the level of policing on the streets enabling crime and violent civil disobedience to flourish. In a recently unearthed conspiratorial clip on X during an event on September 2023, Mamdani bashed both the New York Police Department and Israel in a wild, unfounded attack: “For anyone to care about these issues, we have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF (Israel Defense Force).”

Mamdani trivialized the quotes by attempting to distance himself from them and comments he made in 2020 when he called the NYPD “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety” and backed “defund the police.” Mamdani’s anti-Semitic and anti-Israel outbursts put him at the forefront of Jew haters within the Democratic Party. His reluctance to explicitly condemn the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group responsible for the barbaric and savage October 7 attack on civilians in Southern Israel, fits nicely alongside his promise to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he set foot in New York City during Mamdani’s watch. All of his statements concerning October 7th, including the one recently released on the 2nd commemoration, minimize Hamas’ brutal terror attack and mostly focus on condemning Israel.

What makes Mamdani so dangerous for Jews is his ability to use Jews to convince other Jews that he is not anti-Semitic and not a clear and present danger to the Jewish community. Just recently, Mamdani met with Haredi Jewish leaders at their sukkahs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a community that has suffered the most from Muslim violence in New York in recent years. Mamdani was welcomed to the sukkah of Rabbi Moishe Indig, a leader of the Satmar Hasidic community. One rabbi belonging to the Satmar community announced that Rabbi Indig had called Mamdani “a friend of the Jewish people” and said he would make “the best mayor.” This seal of seeming approval by the Satmar Hasidic community of a blatant anti-Semite is rampant in Jewish history. Jewish history is sadly filled with examples of such betrayals. Jews aided the Romans as they destroyed the Second Temple, Jews turned in their co-religionists during the Spanish Inquisition, and even the Nazis had use for their Jewish collaborators.

It seems as if Mamdani accepts the legitimacy of barbaric behavior on the part of the Palestinian Hamas terror organization as the necessary price Jews must pay for not forfeiting their rights to live in Israel. One must search in vain for his outrage and indignation for the burning of babies alive, the torture, murder and rape of men, women, and children on Oct 7th. Mamdani’s lack of moral indignation can only be explained by a morally corrupt belief that as far as Palestinian Hamas terrorists are concerned, and as far as radicalized American Muslims and their supporters in New York City are concerned, there can be no reasonable expectation that Palestinian Arabs and their American supporters embrace the idea of the sanctity of life or measure up to the high expectations of Western morality. Mamdani’s possible election in the coming days will turn the streets of New York City into an escalating environment of hostility and Jew-hatred that threatens the basic safety of Jews throughout the five boroughs of New York City.