OPINION:
The Mamdani record on Israel and Americans supporting the Jewish nation should be disqualifying (“With Mamdani’s victory, New Yorkers are seeing red,” Web, June 30). However, there are powerful and well-financed forces working to cast Israel and its supporters as enemies of humanity — and these are not well-intentioned people ignorant of the facts, but Jew haters savoring the idea of America’s first city being run by one of their own.
As candidate Mamdani wields his baton against Israel and its supporters, we will hear a full orchestra of Jew hatred, as we have since Hamas and its supporters in the U.S. depicted Israel as the guilty party in the horrifying Oct. 7, 2023 attacks.
Democratic politicians of note will scratch Mr. Mamdani’s back because most politicians are not moral avatars. How I wish the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan were still alive to marshal the force of good against the many forces of this newest evil.
PAUL BLOUSTEIN
Cincinnati, Ohio
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