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Planning An Exit Strategy
Dear Editor:
Mamdani is Mayor and there is nothing we can do about it. Fighting Jews who supported him will get us nowhere. Is this the age of gloom for New York and will Jews see unstoppable Anti-Semitism.? Many say run to Florida. The only place to run to is Israel. For the present stay in New York. Mamdani will change his tune when he takes office and will be advancing his political career; he wants to succeed and be re-elected in four years. We live in an age of violence; he will watch his step when he gets into power. By the way, I believe he eventually will be seeking higher office. This is not pre-1933 Germany nor a possible Jewish Genocide.
This is a time to plan an exit strategy. Buy an apartment, Get Israeli citizenship. Stay in America as long as you can, but antisemitism is now mainstream. The danger is real and existential.
Sincerely
Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg
Mamdani is Preparing for the Caliphate
Dear Editor:
There is a straight line from 9-11 to Oct. 7 and to Nov. 4. It is the path of Christianity’s submission to Russia and radical Islam.
In 1956, the U.S. withdrew from the New Aswan Dam project, as Egypt was becoming closer to the Soviet Union. The Soviets saw Israel as a western outpost. In 1964, to further diminish American influence in the Middle East and North Africa, the KGB and Egypt created the Palestinian myth.
They recruited fighters from throughout MENA, calling them Palestinians. They appropriated Jewish history as their own and employed terrorism do drive home their message. They partnered with Iran and Qatar, home of the Muslim Brotherhood, to fund Islamic terrorism world-wide and to support the Jihadis encircling Israel. Qatar and Saudi Arabia bought into and controlled our Ivy League universities.
The Soviet Union, now Russia, holds the reigns to the propaganda apparatus. On October 8, 2023, one day after Palestinian war criminals ravished the Gaza Envelope, 40,000 dormant social media sites sprung into action. Universities in America, Canada and Europe were taken over by Islamists. Jewish students were harassed, while no government or university administration intervened to protect them. Islamists marched through the streets. It was the 1930’s again. Not until Trump’s election did anyone care.
Now Zohran Mamdani is the mayor of New York, the city with the largest Jewish population. He is openly a Jew-hater. He is a communist in the world’s banking center. He will bring New York to its knees in preparation for the Caliphate. He has Obama’s blessing.
Europe and Canada are pretty well lost. Will America fight back against the Brotherhood?
Sincerely,
Len Bennett, Author of ‘Unfinished Work’
Deerfield Beach, FL
It’s Not All in Their Heads
Dear Editor:
Cornell University has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice concerning anti-Israel protests on its campus which—as the New York Times put it— “made Jewish students on campus fearful.”
In reality, the problem was not just Jewish fears, but numerous statements and actions, some of them violent, that targeted Jewish students at Cornell following the Hamas invasion of Israel two years ago.
— A student threatened to shoot and stab Jewish students in Cornell’s kosher dining hall.
— The campus Hillel received death threats and other vulgar messages.
— Anti-Israel extremists smashed glass doors at Day Hall and defaced it with menacing graffiti.
— A mob rioted at a campus career fair because a few of the exhibitors had connections to Israel.
— Several Cornell professors openly cheered the October 7 mass-murder, mocked and denied the Hamas gang-rapes of Israeli women, and posted obscene messages about Israel and Zionism.
It was not all just in the Jewish students’ heads. The atmosphere was so hostile to Jewish students that at one point in the autumn of 2023, the university administration felt it necessary to temporarily cancel all classes.
Unfortunately, this is becoming something of a pattern at the New York Times. A news article on October 23 about anti-Israel activity on campuses reported that some American Jewish college students have complained “that some chants and other acts felt antisemitic.”
The assertion that Jewish students merely “felt” the chants or signs were antisemitic implied that they might not have been antisemitic, but were simply perceived that way by some observers.
It’s not a matter of what Jewish students have “felt,” but what has actually been happening for the past two years on university campuses around the country:
— Physical assaults, harassment and taunting of Jewish students, including slurs such as “kike Zionists” (at Ohio State University) and “Go back to Poland!” (at Columbia University).
— Swastika-daubings on the facilities of campus Jewish organizations such as Hillel.
— Preventing Jewish students from accessing some public areas on campuses.
— Mobs marching with banners celebrating the Hamas massacre of 1200 Israeli Jews and calling for the annihilation of millions more. Let’s not forget that President Joe Biden, in a tweet on June 8, 2024, specifically cited rallies “celebrating the 10/7 attack” as examples of recent “horrific acts of Antisemitism.”
Sincerely,
Prof. Rafael Medoff
Jews Should Not Flee NYC
Dear Editor:
While Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City has rightly stirred concern within the Jewish community, particularly given his hostility toward Israel and his alignment with radical socialist movements, fleeing the city would be both a strategic and moral mistake. New York has long been the beating heart of American Jewish life — a place where our community’s cultural, intellectual, and spiritual influence has shaped the city’s very character. To abandon it now would be to surrender that legacy to those who would erase it.
Rather than retreating, Jews must remain firmly rooted and resolute. We must organize, speak out, and hold this administration accountable — in the press, in civic forums, and through the ballot box. Silence and flight only embolden extremism. Engagement, unity, and courage will contain it.
Our forebears did not build thriving Jewish communities in New York through comfort or avoidance; they did so through perseverance and faith in democratic principles. The way to confront Mayor Mamdani’s dangerous anti-Israel and socialist agenda is not by withdrawing from public life but by doubling our commitment to it.
New York’s Jewish story is one of resilience. That must not change now.
Respectfully,
Jeremy Kornfinkel
Monroe, NY