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By: Ezequiel Doiny
On March 31, 2026 Arutz 7 reported “Jewish comedian Mordechai Rosenfeld, known as Modi, announced on Monday that he will not attend the annual “Downtown Seder” event in Lower Manhattan, after Jewish Insider revealed that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will take part in the event. The event is a Passover-themed benefit for a nonprofit focused on peacebuilding. Israeli musician David Broza is also scheduled to appear at the event.
In a post on Instagram on Monday, Modi’s representatives wrote, “We were not aware Mamdani was participating until today. Modi will not be attending this evening.” Mamdani, who was already under fire during his mayoral campaign for his anti-Israel views, caused an uproar on his first day in office when he cancelled executive orders related to Israel, which were issued by his predecessor, Eric Adams.
The move cancelled an order signed by Adams in June of 2025 formally recognizing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. Another executive order which was cancelled prohibited mayoral appointees and agency staff from boycotting and disinvesting from Israel. Mamdani has faced multiple antisemitism controversies since taking office. A recent report indicated that Mamdani’s wife, Rama Dawaji, liked several social media posts that praised or appeared supportive of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre. Earlier this month, Mamdani was introduced at a Ramadan event by a man who called for Hamas to bomb Tel Aviv.”
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The New York Post reported “Mamdani’s wife Rama Duwaji liked post calling Oct. 7 Hamas rapes of Israelis a ‘mass hoax’”
On January 1, 2026 Arutz 7 reported “William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations, condemned New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to cancel the executive order signed by his predecessor, Eric Adams, in June of 2025, which had formally recognized the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. “Mayor Madani’s decision to cancel New York’s adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, along with related presidential orders aimed at addressing antisemitic discrimination, is a troubling indicator of the direction he is leading the city, just one day after taking office,” Daroff said.
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On March 9, 2026 the NY Post reported “Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted controversial anti-Israel activist and accused Hamas sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil, his wife and their young son for dinner at Gracie Mansion for the holy month of Ramadan. “Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together,” Mamdani wrote in a Monday Instagram post. The mayor included a photo of the celebration, showing his wife, Rama Duwaji, holding a plate of food while standing next to a seated Khalil, who was enjoying his meal with a giant smile…”
When Israel and America attacked Iran, Iranians celebrated but Mamdani condemned the attack.
On March 1, 2026 the Gateway Pundit reported:
“A video went viral Saturday that was posted by an Iranian woman doing the YMCA dance to celebrate President Donald Trump toppling the evil Islamist Iranian regime led by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The woman, Sana Ebrahimi, had previously posted that she fled her home country to escape the Islamist regime…”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.
Joe Hoft posted multiple videos of Iranians celebrating (WATCH) “…Around the world Iranians are celebrating the death of a monster…”
https://joehoft.com/iranians-
Fox News reported “Iranians celebrate worldwide after supreme leaders are killed in Israeli strikes”
While Iranians celebrated the elimination of Khamenei, Mamdani condemned the attack , pro-Palestinian groups on campus chanted “death to America”.
Arutz 7 reported “New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday strongly condemned the joint military strikes carried out by the US and Israel against Iran, calling them a dangerous escalation. Mamdani described the strikes as “a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression…”
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The Gateway Pundit reported “An unofficial Columbia University student group, the pro-Palestinian ‘Columbia University Apartheid Divest’ posted “marg bar amrika,” the Islamist Iranian regime chant that means, “death to America,” to X Saturday in response to the killing of Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ale Khamenei in joint U.S.-Israeli air strikes…”
Mamdani also praised the one sided persecution of Betar, a Zionist group.
On January 14, 2026 the Jerusalem Post reported “Mamdani praises disbanding of Zionist organization Betar…New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani praised New York Attorney General Letitia James for ordering Betar US to cease its “campaign of violence, harassment, and intimidation against Arab, Muslim, and Jewish New Yorkers.”
Responding to the mayor’s comments, Betar tweeted “Mamdani’s FIRST target is BETAR, a 102 year old Zionist organization headquartered in the Jabotinsky building in Israel. Expect all Zionist groups who stand with the IDF to be next
” …Critics of the settlement were quick to point out that it was one-sided, with no similar crackdown on groups such as Within Our Lifetime, PAL-AWDA, Palestine Youth Movement (PYM), Social Justice for Palestine (SJP), or Jewish Voices for Peace, which incite and propagate hate towards the Jewish community…”
https://www.jpost.com/
Not only Mamdani and his wife are anti-semites, Mamadani’s father, a Columbia professor is also a radical anti-Israel activist.
On January 13, 2025 the Washington Free Beacon reported “Mamdani’s Father Attacks Columbia’s Anti-Semitism Task Force…Zohran Mamdani’s father, the radical Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani, savaged the school’s anti-Semitism task force during a Dec. 12 meeting of the University Senate. Mamdani described the task force as a “prosecutorial agency” and likened its work to imperial British colonizers, who used racial divisions to maintain power, according to an unofficial transcript obtained by our Jessica Schwalb…”
Liberal Jews embracing Mamdani and inviting him for a Passover Seder are the same that campaigned for Mamdani during the elections, these are the same people to whom the Israeli Supreme Court wants honor with a share of the Kotel.
On March 3, 2026 Morton Klein wrote in the ZOA website “Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, sharply criticized a coalition of Reform Jewish groups, accusing them of undercutting U.S. and Israeli military efforts and repeating what he called false claims about shelter access in Israel. Klein told JNS that a March 1 letter from the coalition “is a wishy-washy hodgepodge that fails to appreciate, support and express gratitude for the brilliant, necessary joint U.S.-Israeli actions against the Iranian regime’s dangerous military and nuclear programs.”
“The letter addressing the war in Iran was signed by leaders from eight organizations within the Reform movement, including Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, who is listed as a speaker at the J Street Convention in Washington, D.C., which concludes on Tuesday.
“Klein said the Reform movement’s statement undermines U.S. and Israeli efforts and legitimacy by challenging the military strategy, incorrectly asserting that Congress has been blocked from carrying out its constitutional duties—which he said U.S. President Donald Trump is fully observing under the Constitution and War Powers Act—and by advancing what he called the “blood libel” claim that Israelis are in bomb shelters while Palestinians lack access to them.
“We are keeping in our hearts those in the direct line of Iranian missiles who are forced to seek safety in bomb shelters—as well as Palestinians who do not have access to shelters—at this very moment,” the letter states. “There is no ‘ethnic shelter discrimination,’” Klein told JNS. “Shelters are mandatory in all new buildings. Many Jewish Israelis and Arabs who live in older homes lack the best access to shelters.” “Shame on the Reform movement,” he added…”
On July 27, 2025 the Union for Reform Judaism published in its website “Reform Movement Statement on Starvation in Gaza…
“…No one should be unaffected by the pervasive hunger experienced by thousands of Gazans. No one should spend the bulk of their time arguing technical definitions between starvation and pervasive hunger. The situation is dire, and it is deadly. Nor should we accept arguments that because Hamas is the primary reason many Gazans are either starving or on the verge of starving, that the Jewish State is not also culpable in this human disaster. The primary moral response must begin with anguished hearts in the face of such a large-scale human tragedy…Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the “total victory” over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law…
(PLEASE SEE THE FULL STATEMENT IN THE LINK BELOW)
https://urj.org/press-room/
On February 20, 2025 Heritage Minister Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu wrote in Arutz 7 ” In May 2021, when Israel was burning during Operation Guardian of the Walls, when millions of Israelis, children and the elderly, sat day and night in shelters under barrages of Hamas rockets – over 90 rabbinical students of the Reform movement published a public letter. The future generation of their leadership. What did they write there? Did they condemn the terror? Did they send strength to their brethren under attack? Absolutely not. They accused the State of Israel of “apartheid,” called to halt military aid to the IDF, and cried crocodile tears over the suffering in Gaza.
This is not a one-time slip. This is a movement from which vast sections are today providing a tailwind, funding, and legitimacy to radical left-wing organizations on US campuses. Organizations that promote BDS, that call for boycotting Israeli products, and that persecute Jewish students who dare to support Zionism. As far as they are concerned, Judaism is universal, global, one that embraces everyone – except for the Israeli Jew fighting for his life. This disdain for everything related to our nationalism comes from the highest levels. Listen to what happens at their “rabbinical” ordination ceremony (Hebrew Union College). The keynote speaker who takes the stage, to the sound of applause, doesn’t speak about the eternity of Israel.
On the contrary. He stands there and trashes the IDF. He describes our presence here as “walls made from the bodies of teenage soldiers.” Do you understand? Those 19-year-old heroes standing on the firing line to prevent the next massacre are to him just pawns of an occupation protecting a “ghetto of zealots.”
And more than that – he explains to their prospective clergy that there is no problem whatsoever, and it is even desirable, for the Jewish people to disappear and assimilate. He calls on them to tear down the “walls” of Judaism, preaches that intermarriage is the right path, and declares that if Judaism disappears from the world in favor of some enlightened “global tribe” – that is completely fine. For two thousand years, Jews sacrificed their lives so as not to assimilate, to preserve our heritage and our unique identity, and today, on their main stage, they celebrate the erasure of the Jewish people.
“And here is the numerical absurdity that simply cries out to high heaven: Out of about 12,000 synagogues in Israel, the Reform movement holds barely 50 congregations. That is less than half a percent. A marginal group that barely exists on the ground in Israel. It is exactly like one person, within a congregation of 300 worshippers, standing up in his audacity and demanding to expropriate a quarter of the synagogue for himself and his friends from abroad. Not just expropriate – but to bring loudspeakers there, change the prayer arrangements, and conduct ceremonies that trample on the tradition of the 299 other worshippers. In any normal place in the world, they would show him the door.
“But then comes the Supreme Court. Last night, in a decision that proves once again how disconnected the Supreme Court justices are from Jewish identity – excuse me, they are not disconnected. They are actively working against it. Against tradition, against Judaism, and against the majority of the Israeli public, they decided to hand this movement a victory. In the name of those empty words of “equality,” the Supreme Court is forcing the State of Israel to grant an official allocation and space at the Western Wall – the beating heart of the Jewish people – to those same people who despise us from afar.
They don’t come to the Kotel (Western Wall) to pray. The Kotel doesn’t really interest someone who dreams of becoming a citizen of the world and views our nationalism as a crime. They come to the Kotel as a battering ram. They want a foothold in our holiest place in order to gain political recognition, to poke a finger in the eye of traditional Judaism, and to undermine the Jewish identity of the state from within. It is time that we, the sane majority in Israel, stop apologizing and stop bowing our heads to these manipulators. The Western Wall is not real estate to be divided, nor is it playdough that can be molded according to the political whims of the Supreme Court. It belongs to a nation that is proud of its Judaism, that preserves its heritage, and that loves its soldiers. Whoever dreams of a world without a Jewish people – should not look for an estate at our Kotel.”
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On February 19, 2025 King Ytzhack Amit, ruler of the Supreme Court, issued a decree to grant the Reform Movement an official allocation and space at the Western Wall. What are the possible consequences of this rule at one of Judaism’s Holiest sites ? There will soon be same sex marriages and Drag Queen story hour performances in the Kotel.
On February 16, 2026 Arutz 7 reported “In a statement to the Supreme Court, the Chief Rabbis assert that the Western Wall is a synagogue and is subject to halakhic rules that require separation between men and women…
“In the statement, filed by attorney Doron Taubman, the Chief Rabbis declare that the Western Wall plaza is considered a synagogue, and halakhic rules requiring gender separation apply to it. The Rabbinate points out that the southern plaza (“Ezrat Yisrael”) provides an alternative for groups wishing to pray outside the traditional Orthodox customs…”
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On February 26, 2026 the Coalition for Jewish Values reported “Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 2,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in public policy, and Am Echad, an organization dedicated to advancing the connection between Israel and the Diaspora, today announced publication of full‑page advertisements highlighting the “larger ideological program” driving the Reform movement’s campaign to have a large section at the Western Wall dedicated for mixed prayer under their auspices.
‘The ads, titled “Exposed,” were published in Wednesday morning’s Jerusalem Post, Yediot Acharonot, and Israel HaYom newspapers. They highlight that the current Reform campaign is part of a coordinated effort to reshape core elements of Jewish life and the Jewish character of the State of Israel. The groups point to Reform leaders’ own public statements evidencing a broader agenda that includes redefining marriage, expanding commercial activity on Shabbat, and altering the state’s Jewish identity.
“Reform leaders are employing talking points about ‘pluralism’ without acknowledging their own stated goals,” said Coalition for Jewish Values Israel Regional Vice President Rabbi Steven Pruzansky. “Yet they publicly declare that the Western Wall campaign is part of a much broader effort to redefine marriage, normalize government-funded desecration of the Sabbath, and reshape the Jewish character of the state. Israelis deserve to understand the full context, instead of being misinformed that this is simply about prayer space…”
The Lubavitcher Rebbe wrote:
“By the Grace of God, 27th of Sivan, Brooklyn, NY., Greetings and blessing:
“…an Orthodox Rabbi cannot in all conscience recognize the Conservative and Reform points of view, inasmuch as both of the latter do not accept the Written and Oral Law. Hence these movements and their representatives cannot be recognized as legitimately representing the Jewish religion, inasmuch as they reject it. This has been unequivocally ruled by the Rambam and other authorities that followed him, who have established the laws and attitudes of the Shulchan Aruch, leaving no room for doubt or discussion on this basic issue.
“From the above it follows immediately that the activities of such dissident groups cannot be recognized as Jewish religious activities within the definition of Jewish religion. Therefore, Orthodox Rabbis cannot, in all conscience, be members of a body or organization together with representatives of the non-Orthodox points of view, namely, of the Conservative and Reform movements, inasmuch as participation and affiliation in such a body or organization would ipso facto constitute a recognition of the Conservative and Reform interpretation of Judaism as being legitimate parts of the framework of the Jewish Religion, in direct conflict with the unequivocal Psak Din of the Rambam and other authorities, as mentioned above…” (source: “The Letter and the Spirit”, volume II page 57)
The Knesset and Israel’s Chief Rabbi must declare that Reformism is not Judaism and therefore reject the Supreme Court’s ruling granting an official allocation and space at the Western Wall to the Reform Movement.
Liberal Jews who embrace anti-Semites like Mamdani should not be rewarded with a place in the Kotel.
Ezequiel Doiny is author of “Obama’s assault on Jerusalem’s Western Wall” and “Jerusalem is the Spiritual capital of Judaism while Mecca is the Spiritual Capital of Islam”
