Monday, October 05, 2026
Mamdani’s great antisemitism cover-up
If today’s antisemitism is defined by anything, it is hypocrisy. By and large—a few of its more radical Muslim factions excepted—the progressive/Muslim “Red-Green Alliance” that spearheads the first antisemitic mass movement in American history portrays itself as a caste of saints, the finest and most moral people in the entire history of the known universe. They make their case for annihilating Israel and, if we are to believe their slogans (and we should), world Jewry itself, on the basis of human rights, compassion, liberation, empathy, and a deep and abiding concern and love for all mankind.
That all of this is nonsense and conclusively disproven by their incitement, physical violence and acts of murder is beside the point, because hypocrisy, as the saying goes, is always the deference vice pays to virtue.
This hypocrisy is self-serving, to say the least, but also essential to the antisemites themselves.
It is not impossible that today’s antisemites know quite well that they are evil, and this may be precisely why they do what they do. Human beings have a strong streak of sadomasochism in them, and thus evil can certainly be vertiginously thrilling. To admit to this, however, would destroy the antisemites’ pretensions of rectitude, and—except in moments of ultimate ecstasy and immunity—must be occluded by hypocrisy. Vice must defer to virtue to make virtue impossible. Antisemites, after all, always tell themselves that they are good people doing a good thing.
Last week, this was illustrated by an incident and an initiative.
The incident occurred in Texas, where a man was arrested for planning to attack the state capitol building. Buried below the lede in many media reports was the fact that the perpetrator was motivated by murderous antisemitism, specifically citing the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. He reportedly told a friend, “These people have to be exterminated.” One could be forgiven for assuming that such a sweeping statement referred not just to AIPAC, but to all the Jews.
The initiative was a plan to fight antisemitism proposed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, an open antisemite who has referred to AIPAC as “monsters.” He did so alongside numerous other hypocrisies, such as saying the Jewish state has no right to exist (he said no such thing of Muslim states); refusing to condemn the genocidal slogan “globalize the intifada”; and immediately after Oct. 7 saying, “I mourn the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last 36 hours,” which must by definition include the Hamas terrorists who committed the atrocity.
In a supreme act of hypocrisy, he has done all this while claiming to oppose antisemitism based on his allegedly progressive values. That antisemitism is perhaps the most reactionary ideology in the world today appears not to occur to him.
Given this ubiquity of the hypocritical, it is perhaps not surprising to see an antisemite proposing a plan to fight antisemitism, and indeed, the press release on the plan underlines this better than any outside criticism could do.
That all of this is nonsense and conclusively disproven by their incitement, physical violence and acts of murder is beside the point, because hypocrisy, as the saying goes, is always the deference vice pays to virtue.
This hypocrisy is self-serving, to say the least, but also essential to the antisemites themselves.
It is not impossible that today’s antisemites know quite well that they are evil, and this may be precisely why they do what they do. Human beings have a strong streak of sadomasochism in them, and thus evil can certainly be vertiginously thrilling. To admit to this, however, would destroy the antisemites’ pretensions of rectitude, and—except in moments of ultimate ecstasy and immunity—must be occluded by hypocrisy. Vice must defer to virtue to make virtue impossible. Antisemites, after all, always tell themselves that they are good people doing a good thing.
Last week, this was illustrated by an incident and an initiative.
The incident occurred in Texas, where a man was arrested for planning to attack the state capitol building. Buried below the lede in many media reports was the fact that the perpetrator was motivated by murderous antisemitism, specifically citing the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. He reportedly told a friend, “These people have to be exterminated.” One could be forgiven for assuming that such a sweeping statement referred not just to AIPAC, but to all the Jews.
The initiative was a plan to fight antisemitism proposed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, an open antisemite who has referred to AIPAC as “monsters.” He did so alongside numerous other hypocrisies, such as saying the Jewish state has no right to exist (he said no such thing of Muslim states); refusing to condemn the genocidal slogan “globalize the intifada”; and immediately after Oct. 7 saying, “I mourn the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last 36 hours,” which must by definition include the Hamas terrorists who committed the atrocity.
In a supreme act of hypocrisy, he has done all this while claiming to oppose antisemitism based on his allegedly progressive values. That antisemitism is perhaps the most reactionary ideology in the world today appears not to occur to him.
Given this ubiquity of the hypocritical, it is perhaps not surprising to see an antisemite proposing a plan to fight antisemitism, and indeed, the press release on the plan underlines this better than any outside criticism could do.
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