Why I support Mamdani, For Now
by Peter Gerard Myers
Date: November 3, 2025; update Nov. 5, 2025
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(1) Mamdani supports BDS; and has 90,000 volunteers canvassing for
him
(2) Mamdani on Establishment candidates: "They care about their donors,
they care about themselves. They don't care about you"
(3) Mamdani is a Reformist, not a Revolutionary - RCP Trots/Maoists
(4) Why I support Mamdani - For Now
(5) Mamdani photo with Alex Soros
(1) Mamdani supports BDS; and has 90,000 volunteers canvassing for him
https://prospect.org/2025/10/30/mamdani-and-the-jews/
Mamdani and the Jews
His campaign has divided New York's Jewish community, even as his outreach efforts have persisted - and will continue if he wins Tuesday's mayoral election.
BY NAOMI BETHUNE
OCTOBER 30, 2025
"I will be the mayor who doesn't just protect Jewish New Yorkers, but also celebrates and cherishes them," said Zohran Mamdani during New York's first general-election debate for mayor. Since he launched his campaign in October of 2024, however, Mamdani has faced a barrage of criticism, apprehension, and even attempts to demean his character in response to his views on Israel.
Mamdani's platform has focused narrowly on innovative policies to make New York, one of the world's most expensive cities, more affordable and inclusive for all. From rent freezes to raising the minimum wage, free child care for all to hiking taxes on corporations and the one percent, Mamdani consistently presents an articulate progressive vision for the city's future. The excitement created by his campaign, for which an astonishing 90,000 volunteers have walked precincts and staffed phone banks, has reverberated across the country. But in New York - the historic gateway for immigrants from across the world - support for and opposition to the regimes from which those immigrants came, and New Yorkers' ties to friends and relatives in other countries, have long been part and parcel of the city's politics.
Unlike his opponents in the mayoral race, Mamdani has offered perspectives on Israel, Zionism, and antisemitism that have upset and even alarmed some voters. Although he has never denied that the state of Israel has a right to exist, he simultaneously has not affirmed that it should exist as a Jewish state. Mamdani is forthright in his opposition to Israel's use of violence against the Palestinian people, and has classified the ongoing war in Gaza as a "genocide." He also has not swayed from his support for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, which aims to pressure Israel so that the state may comply with international law. When it comes to New York's institutional ties to Israel, Mamdani wants to deviate from the past practice of the city's mayors, who supported initiatives such as the NYC-Israel Economic Council and the NYPD's police exchange programs. Perhaps the most remarkable promise Mamdani has made is to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever enters the city.
Instead of marketing himself as an ally to Israel, Mamdani has instead channeled his energy into targeting many of the everyday concerns of Jewish New Yorkers. According to data released by the NYPD, Jews were the primary target of hate crimes reported (hate crimes remain largely underreported across the board) in the city in 2024, constituting nearly 54 percent of the hate crimes counted. He has called for increasing funding for hate violence programs from $3 million to $26 million. He has also signified support for the implementation of the "Hidden Voices" program, which would teach students from kindergarten through 12th grade about Jewish Americans in U.S. history. On the second anniversary of the October 7th attacks, Mamdani released a statement mourning those killed in both Israel and occupied Palestine, and he has repeatedly expressed a continued commitment to condemning antisemitism across the country.
But connecting with voters in an effort to reconcile his opposition to Zionism with his opposition to antisemitism and his support for the city's Jewish population has not been an easy task. Mamdani's campaign has been met by significant resistance from Jewish leaders and organizations that take issue with his stance on Israel. A letter signed by over 1,000 rabbis that called for voters to stand up against Mamdani made headlines, arriving in the wake of Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of the Park Avenue Synagogue's classification of Mamdani as "a danger to the security of the New York Jewish community." Dozens of other individuals have expressed their disdain for Mamdani, with no shortage of commentary online about the subject. In recent weeks, these voices have dominated the public conversation about the city's mayoral race, but the truth about Jewish New Yorkers' positions on Mamdani is much more complex. In a Fox News poll taken just before the general-election debate, 42 percent of Jewish voters surveyed supported Cuomo, while Mamdani trailed just behind with 38 percent.
(2) Mamdani on Establishment candidates: "They care about their donors, they care about themselves. They don't care about you"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-mayor.html
Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, Will Run Against Mayor Adams Zohran Mamdani, a state lawmaker from Queens, has entered the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, joining a crowded field hoping to unseat Eric Adams.
By Emma G. Fitzsimmons
Oct. 22, 2024
Zohran Mamdani, a socialist New York State Assembly member from Queens, will announce on Wednesday that he is entering the race to unseat Mayor Eric Adams, who is facing growing doubts over his political future. [...]
In his campaign kickoff video, Mr. Mamdani proposes freezing rents on rent-stabilized apartments and targets both Mr. Adams and former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who is considering running in the Democratic primary next June.
"Life in this city doesn't need to be this hard, but politicians like Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo want it to be this way," he says in the video. "They care about their donors, they care about themselves. They don't care about you -the working class who keep this city running." [...]
(3) Mamdani is a Reformist, not a Revolutionary - RCP Trots/Maoists
This article is from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a Trotskyist party which is pro-Mao, anti-Stalin, anti-Deng and anti-Xi. They criticise Mandami for being reformist, whereas they are are revolutionary - Peter M.
https://communistusa.org/why-communists-cant-support-zohran-mamdani/
Why Communists Can't Support Zohran Mamdani
Abadie Ludlam
May 15, 2025
Zohran Mamdani is a DSA member running as a Democrat for mayor of New York City. He's currently polling second in the primary behind Andrew Cuomo, the ex-governor of New York. [...]
In one campaign video, Zohran says,
New Yorkers are being crushed by rent and childcare. The slowest buses in the world are robbing us of our time and our sanity. Working people are being pushed out of the city they built. A mayor could change this, and that's why I'm running É We can afford to bring down the rent, have world class public transit, and make it easier to raise a family. We can do all of that, and so much more. Because this is New York. We can afford to dream.
While all of these aims are laudable and understandably popular, the reality is that no mayor can singlehandedly end the cost of living crisis New Yorkers face. It's rooted in the crisis of American and world capitalism. Due to massive unpayable public debt, governments around the world are seeking, not to expand public services, but on the contrary, to implement vicious austerity. [...]
Despite his nice-sounding words, Zohran is ultimately a reformist seeking to make minor tweaks to the New York City budget. In the process, he is deceiving the working class about the role of the Democratic Party and about the possibility of achieving meaningful improvements under capitalism. Rather than building the influence of socialism, he is tainting that word through false promises and associating himself with the rotten and discredited Democratic Party.
A genuine working-class campaign, independent of both parties and putting forward a socialist program and class struggle methods, could win massive support and serve as an example for the whole country. It could channel the anger and discontent in society into building the communist party necessary to lead our class in a fight to the finish against the capitalists. This is the type of campaign that the RCA will run in the future as our forces grow.
(4) Why I support Mamdani, For Now
Peter Gerard Myers, November 3, 2025
There is a view in Conservative circles that Mamdani should be opposed because he's a socialist.
But not all kinds of socialism are the same. Britain and Australia had socialist governments from World War II until Thatcher privatised all those state assets.
Today, British Rail is privately owned, while France's railways are still run by the state-owned SNCF.
Which has the better rail system? It's not even close.
Which one runs double-decker high-speed trains using locally-developed technology? SNCF. Which one runs slower trains using imported Hitachi technology? British Rail.
When you have state-owned technology companies, combined with Protective Tariffs, as we had in the 1950s-80s, the skills remain in your country, and the assets are owned by your people. When you privatise, the owners are Foreign Investors, Oligarchs, and entities based in Tax Havens. You lose your skilled workers, you lose your tax base, and you end up deep in foreign debt.
I have been using the word "socialism" in the way it was understood before we adopted Trotskyist terminology. Trots called the economy of the 1950-80s, not "socialist" but "capitalist".
They replaced the old understaning of "socialism" with a new definition based on Identity politics. Support for LGBT and mass immigration is now the criterion for the "socialist" label.
George Galloway renounced LGBT and instead came out for "Mum, Dad and the Kids", as a result of which the Socialist Workers Party, a Trotskyist Party, deemed him "no longer Left."
https://isj.org.uk/george-galloway-no-longer/
George Galloway: no longer a leftist
International Socialism (a Trotskyist quarterly)
<https://isj.org.uk/issue-183>
Issue: 183
I reject and denounce that Trotskyist terminology. We must restore the old meaning of "socialist".
What about Mamdani? He seems to support Trans, but has not run on Woke issues as part of his campaign. He has instead run on the "Class" issue, like the socialism of the 1950s-80s.
The Conservatives who oppose him support economic Liberalism, i.e. Laissez-Faire. Although it has connotations of giving Small Business a fair go, in fact, it allows Big Business to destroy Small Business.
In 1950s-80s socialism, Governments ran the economy, whereas under Thatcherism and Reaganomics, politicians rely on Donors to get elected, and those Donors buy the Government.
If you want to control Big Business, you must have Big Government. That's what we had before Thatcher and Reagan. But, the Big Government of those days was not intrusive in our private lives, as the Nanny State has become since.
I'm guessing that, after some years as Mayor of NYC, Mamdani will become Governor of NY State. In the future, he would be a Presidential prospect, like J.D. Vance, and as Charlie Kirk would have been.
I'm hopeful that he will be successful in his push to tax corporations, tax the rich, and reduce the financial stresses on the working class. Yes, I said "working class", the people who build homes, schools and factories, who drive trains and buses, who pick crops, prune orchard trees and drive machinery. Ever since Reagan, the working class has been neglected: their jobs have been outsourced, mass immigration has lowered wages and conditions, and feminism and LGBT have destroyed their formerly stable marriages and family life.
The working class are also the "deplorables", and this means that they oppose feminism, LGBT and mass immigration.
If Mamdani attends to working class interests, he will have to jettison much of the Woke ideology. I am guessing that he will do so. But if he goes Woke, I will turn against him.
Even so, he will have changed the Overton Window for other candidates. Candidates who pander to Big Business will no longer be electable.
(5) Mamdani photo with Alex Soros
by Peter Gerard Myers, Nov. 5, 2025
This photo was published just after the election result was clear.
https://x.com/AlexanderSoros/status/1985906188584960502
Alex Soros @AlexanderSoros
So proud to be a New Yorker! The American dream continues!
Congrats, Mayor @ZohranKMamdani
1:05 PM · Nov 5, 2025
Obviously, Alex Soros had been funding Mamdani. So much for Mamdani's statement "New York is not for sale."
It looks as if Mamdani will maintain Woke policies, on which account I will oppose him.
Nevertheless, I've still had a win, because the Zionists lost control of NYC. It's a huge loss.
Mamdani will implement BDS, and Netanyahu will be unable to travel to New York City, lest he be arrested.
This loss, combined with rising resistance to Zionism in the GoP, is a major milestone in the freeing of the USA from Jewish domination.
Another triumph that I have, is that this photo proves what I've been saying for years, that corporate Jewry is in two camps - Netanyahu's and Soros' - and they hate each other.
The third kind of Jews, the dissidents who are not part of any lobby, are, in my opinion, the good ones.
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