New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has apparently discovered a new doctrine in municipal leadership: when a mob surrounds a synagogue, blocks Jews from entering, screams “Death to the IDF,” “Globalize the Intifada,” and unloads every antisemitic slur in the book — the real issue isn’t the mob. No, according to Mamdani, the real problem is the synagogue’s “violation of international law.”
Welcome to the Mamdani School of Moral Inversion.
Park East Synagogue — led by 95-year-old Holocaust survivor Rabbi Arthur Schneier — hosted a perfectly legal informational event run by Nefesh B’Nefesh, which helps Jews immigrate to Israel. For this crime, a mob of pro-Palestinian activists declared themselves judge, jury, and street-corner executioners, braying about intifada while hurling obscenities at Jews trying to enter a house of worship.
But Mamdani’s press secretary issued this statement from the mayor-elect: “The Mayor-elect has discouraged the language used at last night’s protest and will continue to do so. 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.”
When pressed, his office explained that the “international law” being violated is — wait for it — helping Jews move to Israel, which they said amounts to promoting “settlement activity beyond the Green Line.”
So a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor hosts an informational evening, a mob surrounds his synagogue screaming for intifada, and Mamdani’s instinct is not to condemn the mob but to reach for his imaginary pocket Constitution of the International Criminal Court and imply that the synagogue had it coming.
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This is moral absurdity dressed up in pseudo-legal jargon. Mamdani has somehow weaponized “international law” as a rhetorical air freshener to cover the stench of refusing to forthrightly condemn a crowd that literally blocked Jews from a synagogue while shouting violent slogans.
But hey, he “discourages” the language.
Meanwhile, real leaders had no trouble saying what anyone with functional eyesight saw. Mayor Eric Adams called the mob “sick and warped.”
Mamdani’s response signals exactly what New Yorkers can expect: when antisemitism erupts, he’ll open his international law textbook, clear his throat, and explain why the Jews need to examine their role in being targeted.
