“As a Jew, it makes me cringe”
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MJ Rosenberg vents his anger in a powerful critique of the way loyalty to Israel is weaponised in the NYC mayoral debate.
A question in a debate about New York’s pressing problems and its future has to include a discussion about condemning Hamas and recognising Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state – obviously…
AS Rosenberg points out, Mamdani’s “position is simple: he wants Israel to become a democracy, not an ethno-theocracy. That’s not a call for destruction. It’s a call for equality. It threatens no one’s life—only the political system that insists Jewish supremacy is permanent.
New York has always been a city of immigrants, passionate about their countries of origin: “But no other group has ever demanded that its homeland dominate local politics.”
Only one foreign lobby – that of Israel – claims the right and has the resources to crush any opponent who doesn’t sing from the holy script.
But it isn’t working with Mamdani.
RK
This article was originally published by MJ Rosenberg's Substack on Fri 17 Oct 2025. Read the original here.
Enough With The "Do You Love Israel" Issue
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I really enjoyed reading this piece. If it makes you cringe it makes me want to scream
The self-absorption and self-centredness of the Zionist zealots is not confined to New York. I recall how much of the campaign against Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party was centred on Israel while all his policies which were directly relevant to the people of the UK were studiously ignored. And now we have Starmer claiming that the decision to ban the Maccabi Tel Aviv ‘ultras’ from Villa Park is somehow ‘antisemitic’ when he knows that these are violent racist hooligans who have recently rioted in the Netherlands and who have caused the Israeli police (!) to close down a derby game in Tel Aviv for fear of what they might do. There are so many high horses being ridden in the Zionist movement that the world is being turned into a veritable dungheap.
There is no other country in the world which holds such a privileged position as Israel. Let’s admit, it’s a very clever place to have got itself with the most powerful nations kowtowing to it, as their politicians sycophantly bow, shuffling backwards in homage, to this extraordinarily great country!
Brilliantly written, I have never thought of New York as single race city……
Many films & series & even “ WESTSIDE STORY showed so much of different cultures, races, religions, & the chance for the very poor & oppressed from around the world, seeking a place of work, freedom & a future for their children!
Every immigrant good or bad had a chance to better themselves in many ways.
Sadly a deranged political system voted by the very people who are now being hounded by ICE & a government that has divided the colours, races & religions , ARE being divided! Even Science & Healthcare has been destroyed!
New York was built by immigrants, for immigrants, who made the tools, prepared the concrete, laid the bricks, roads, subways etc….
Having a non white American as Mayor should have happened years ago irrespective of religion or race!
ZIONISM & its overwhelming power in business, schools, colleges & Universities as well as politics is frightening & has become too similar to the beginning of Nazi Germany in the 1930s & Hungary now, especially with Netanyahus frequent visits to his good pal ORBAN, the Neo Nazi leader