If New York City elects Zohran Mamdani, it won’t be the city we know — or the one we want to live in. It will be, as one observer recently quipped, the People’s Republic of New York City, a place where free enterprise is criminalized, antisemitism is disguised as “activism,” and law enforcement is neutered to appease the radical fringe.

In the latest warning sign of what’s to come, Brooklyn Councilman Chi Ossé — one of Mamdani’s loudest disciples and now a self-declared Democratic Socialist — has demanded that the city’s Brooklyn Navy Yard evict two local manufacturing companies because their clients include Israel’s military, the U.S. Border Patrol, and even the NYPD.

The businesses in question — Easy Aerial, a drone company, and Crye Precision, a producer of tactical gear and body armor — are legitimate employers, taxpayers, and innovators. They hire New Yorkers, they pay wages, and they contribute to the city’s economic health. Yet Ossé claims they “bring zero benefit to our communities” and should be expelled because they are, in his words, “complicit in genocide.”

This is not just foolishness. It is ideological extremism weaponized against the very fabric of our economy, and it offers a chilling preview of what a Mamdani administration would look like.

The New York Post was right to call it what it is — dangerous.

Mamdani has built his political career on demonizing Israel, promoting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and vilifying anyone who refuses to join his crusade. In the state legislature, he championed a bill to strip pro-Israel charities of their tax-exempt status, a measure so extreme it was condemned by mainstream Democrats and Jewish leaders alike as a violation of constitutional freedoms.

Now, as the Democratic Socialist nominee for mayor, Mamdani stands poised to drag the entire city into his ideological war.

He cannot realistically achieve much of his utopian “affordability agenda.” Rent freezes are temporary political theater; raising taxes on the wealthy or setting a $30 minimum wage would require state approval he’ll never get. But what he can do — and almost certainly will — is turn City Hall into a weapon against Israel and its supporters.

Under Mamdani, expect a city bureaucracy that mirrors the BDS playbook: city agencies combing through contracts to “de-Zionize” vendors; public universities stripped of funding for partnering with Israeli institutions; Jewish organizations smeared as foreign proxies.

He has already pledged to boycott Cornell Tech, the prestigious graduate technology campus on Roosevelt Island jointly developed with the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, one of the world’s most respected centers of innovation. Cornell Tech has brought hundreds of jobs, millions in investment, and global prestige to New York’s tech sector — the very backbone of the city’s economic future. Yet Mamdani vows to withdraw any “municipal subsidies” because of its partnership with an Israeli university.

This isn’t economic policy. It’s a vendetta — one that would isolate New York from the global innovation community and punish the city’s own workers for the sin of doing business with Israelis.

Punishing companies with “any ties to Israel” would become standard operating procedure in Mamdani’s New York. And make no mistake: once that precedent is set, the targets will expand. Today, it’s defense manufacturers. Tomorrow, it’s tech firms, hospitals, universities, and philanthropies. Anyone who refuses to bow to his ideological litmus test will find themselves blacklisted.

This is the ugly secret of Mamdani’s “progressivism.” Beneath the rhetoric of compassion lies a fundamentally destructive agenda — one that pits neighbor against neighbor, dismantles the city’s economic engines, and excuses violence in the name of “justice.”

Even more alarming is his open hostility toward the NYPD, the very institution that keeps this city safe. Mamdani has vowed to disband the Strategic Response Group (SRG) — the elite police division responsible for counterterrorism, riot control, and major public-safety emergencies.

In the same breath, he insists that “First Amendment activity” must be given “wide latitude.” In other words, under Mamdani, law enforcement will be told to stand down while chaos unfolds. The result will be a city paralyzed by endless protests, traffic blockades, and — inevitably — antisemitic intimidation.

We’ve already seen what happens when progressive mayors let radical demonstrators dictate the rules: Portland’s downtown gutted by riots, Los Angeles businesses looted under the banner of “equity,” and universities across America transformed into staging grounds for hatred.

Mamdani’s New York would be all that, multiplied.

Even if Mamdani never explicitly calls for antisemitic violence, his rhetoric has already emboldened those who do. As The New York Post reported, the city has seen a surge in anti-Jewish demonstrations and vandalism — much of it justified by the same slogans Mamdani repeats about “Zionist genocide.”

His brand of radicalism blurs the line between political dissent and ethnic hatred. When activists chant “From the river to the sea,” Mamdani defends it as “legitimate expression.” When Jewish neighborhoods are targeted with marches and harassment, he calls it “free speech.”

This moral equivalence is not leadership — it’s cowardice dressed up as conscience. And it sends a clear message to the city’s most vulnerable communities: you’re on your own.

If Mamdani takes City Hall, we can expect a police force too demoralized to act, a business climate too fearful to invest, and a Jewish community too intimidated to live openly. The city that once prided itself on resilience and tolerance would instead become a playground for ideological bullies.

What’s perhaps most tragic is that New York used to know better. For generations, this city was a haven for immigrants, dreamers, and innovators — people of all faiths who believed that hard work, not hatred, built progress.

But under Mamdani’s vision, the same pluralism that made New York great is being turned against itself. By labeling Jews and pro-Israel New Yorkers as oppressors, he seeks to erase them from civic life. By portraying capitalism as evil, he threatens the livelihoods of millions. And by undermining the NYPD, he endangers every resident — regardless of race, creed, or ideology.

The danger is not just in Mamdani’s ideas, but in his ability to normalize them. When elected officials such as Chi Ossé declare that businesses serving the NYPD or Israel are “complicit in genocide,” they are not engaging in policy debate — they are advancing a worldview that defines moral virtue by hatred of the West, of Israel, and of anyone who dares to disagree.

The line from Mamdani’s rhetoric to the street violence of the far-left fringe is a short one. History has seen this movie before. In 1970s New York, radical movements cloaked in revolutionary language brought economic stagnation, urban decay, and near-bankruptcy. It took decades — and mayors like Koch, Giuliani, and Bloomberg — to rebuild the confidence that chaos destroyed.

Do New Yorkers really want to return to that darkness, this time fueled by digital demagoguery and identity politics?

New Yorkers must reject Zohran Mamdani’s radicalism — before his revolution devours the very city it claims to save.