Tel-Chai Nation

Bruce Bawer discusses how there's a terrible but perhaps not shocking problem of Jewish "representatives" who're siding with Muslim communist Zohran Mamdani and shunning Tommy Robinson. On the subject of Mamdani:

About a million New Yorkers are Jewish. You’d expect them to be fiercely opposed to Mamdani’s candidacy. On the contrary, a July poll showed that 43% of the city’s Jews, and 67% of Jews between 18 and 44, support Mamdani.

In late September, the leaders of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, an organization of progressive Jews, issued the first mayoral endorsement since its founding in 1999. On September 30, Eli Williams-Szenes, the group’s Director of Advocacy and Political Affairs, released a statement explaining this decision. “First,” wrote Williams-Szenes, “the greatest threats to Jewish safety in the U.S. are Trump and the MAGA movement – and they want us to be divided from our allies. They’ve used every tactic to try to pull apart the progressive coalition behind Zohran, from smokescreen antisemitism to anti-Muslim bigotry and racism.”

Second, Williams-Szenes maintained that Zohran, who has “visited synagogues” and “met with Jewish constituents and rabbis,” is an opponent of anti-Semitism. Mamdani, he noted, enjoyed “the support of Jewish leaders representing the largest Jewish communities in the nation – from Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine to the Upper West Side’s Congressman Jerry Nadler to State Senator Brad Holyman-Sigal.” Also backing Mamdani is Brad Lander, whose position as the city’s comptroller makes him “the most senior Jewish leader in New York City government.” Williams-Szenes quoted Lander on Mamdani’s run: “This is more than an election, it’s a story of what’s possible when we work together to create a coalition against fascism. This multifaith, multiracial coalition is the antidote to MAGA hate.”

Got it? Donald Trump, who moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and mediated the historic Abraham Accords, is an apostle of hate – particularly, one gathers, anti-Semitic hate.

It wouldn't be shocking if the same Jewish New Yorkers who boosted Mamdani's ratings are also more than fully willing to wear keffiyehs, burkas and niqabs and of course, to convert to Islam one day. I've wondered if desensitization to barbarism runs rampant among such a specific crowd, and they share something vaguely similar with feminists: defining Christianity and the white man as the sole problem in the world, as though there couldn't possibly be any other. Or something like that.

Now, a similar problem exists over in the UK where Mamdani's long-established variant, Sadiq Khan, is mayor of London:

But you don’t have to be Jewish, or to know anything about recent developments in London, to worry about electing a Muslim mayor of New York. All you need is to have a vague awareness that what is now the Islamic world, consisting of 53 Muslim-majority countries, was not always Muslim. Every part of it outside of the Arabian peninsula became Muslim through violent, bloody conquest. In places like Nigeria, that conquest is still underway. Europe, too, including London and the rest of the United Kingdom, is being conquered, but through mass immigration and institutional infiltration rather than military invasion.

The man who has done more to stand up for British liberty against the encroachments of Islam is Tommy Robinson. After the Yom Kippur attack on a synagogue in Manchester, Amichai Chikli, Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs, invited Tommy to visit Israel later this month, calling him a “British patriot” and a “courageous leader on the front line against radical Islam.” Tommy quickly accepted the invitation, saying that he would travel to Israel directly after his October 13 trial. The murders in Manchester, he stated, had “strengthened my conviction that the United Kingdom and Israel are fighting the same battle – against the scourge of Islamic jihad.”

Just as there are Jews in New York who plan to vote for Mamdani, however, there are Jews in Britain who found Chikli’s invitation to Tommy Robinson appalling. According to the Daily Mail, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council issued a joint statement declaring that Chikli, in British Jews’ “darkest hour,” had “ignored the views of the vast majority of British Jews, who utterly and consistently reject Robinson and everything he stands for.” Tommy, the organizations maintained, “is a thug who represents the very worst of Britain” and that he “undermines those genuinely working to tackle Islamist extremism and foster community cohesion.”

Community cohesion! That’s what it’s all about – preserving that beautiful sense of unity, trust, and love between Muslims and non-Muslims that reigns in the UK. Yes, let’s “tackle Islamist extremism” – but let’s do it without stepping on any Muslim toes. What a joke. What could be more cowardly and delusional? This is an attitude taken by lily-livered people who have convinced themselves – or pretend to have convinced themselves, because they dare not face the reality that they live with every day – that it’s possible to stop jihadist violence in Britain while allowing the rise of Muslim power to continue unchecked.

Making matters worse is that columnist Melanie Phillips has also sided with this shoddy approach, which could primarily be described as implying it's impossible for Robinson to rise above any past mistakes he allegedly made and reform, but at the same time, she is, in a way, trying to frame and defame him too. This is simply sad. What next, will she say even the most decent if not perfect residents of France who want to stop the invasion there too are entirely forbidden to prove they're worth aligning with?

It's repulsive how the UK's Jewish "leadership" continues a cowardly act of refusing to acknowledge the Religion of Peace is a bad influence, regardless of whether specific practitioners are "moderate" or not. Last year, the Board of Deputies paid solidarity visits to the UK Muslim community after the Southport riots that took place after the horrifying murders committed by the Axel Rudakubana, who turned out to be a Muslim himself. And paying a solidarity visit to the Muslim community contradicts any solidarity they may have shown with Rudakubana's victims. I'm sorry, but "leaders" like these who clearly grovel before their local governments are not fit for their jobs at all, and no wonder they have such problems with antisemitism ever still.

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