Hi Neighbors

Zohran Mamdani has found a home. Typically when you move into a new home you are a bit tentative about how you treat your neighbors. If you suspect that your neighbors would resent some of your stronger views, you would back off a bit. But Zohran is not tentative in the least. He told his neighbors exactly what he would do when he moved into the Mayor’s home. Now, his new neighbors are experiencing exactly what he said he would do.

His new neighbors voted him in. They invited him to move in as their new mayor based on his promises to establish a “democratic/socialist” regime complete with free buses, city run grocery stores, taxing of the rich, equity for all, and no favors for Jews or Israel. This was a magnetic appeal to those who felt victimized, struggling in the financial yoke of capitalism, and felt that Jews and their rogue state of Israel were to be ignored. Now, with one hundred days as their new neighbor - and mayor -  he is doing, or trying to do, exactly what he promised to do.

Mamdani is a Muslim, a true socialist, and an antisemite. In this country you can carry all three of these labels and still be elected. And so he was. But now the bitter ramifications of these labels is coming to the fore. Free Buses? – later. City run grocery stores? – later. Taxing the rich?-  the rich leaving New York before the taxes. Rent freezes, free this, free that, equity for all – all these promises are running up against the impenetrable wall of reality. Socialism, and its stepchild Communism, have universally failed in all sizeable and diverse populations now including the city of New York.

Now, what about the Jews and Israel? For the last six New York Mayors, all have chosen to march in the annual Israel Day parade on Fifth avenue on May 31. Not Mamdani. In the largest Jewish community in the world, Mamdani chose not to march with his new neighbors, some 50,000 of them. Antisemite? Confirmed.