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Why is Zohran Mamdani in the Sukkah

October 16th, 2025

There was a video going around of Zohran Mamdani, who is running for Mayor of N.Y.C., sitting with a bunch of chasideshe men in the sukkah wearing a kippa. Besides the obvious, that he is a communist who believes that everything can be free, he is also a vile anti-Semite.

Mind you, there were still Jewish hostages being held by Hamas, being starved and tortured, while all of this was going on. Never mind the fact that every single Jew right now understands how important it is to stick together against the very real threat of anti-Semitism, ahem, two dead Jews in the U.K.

While all anti-Semitism is bad, it definitely falls into different categories. I was listening to a lecture from the Israeli historian Dan Shuftan, and he said something along the lines of, “90 percent of the world is from Chelm, and the other 10 percent is Sodom.” (I tried finding the exact quote but alas.) He was speaking about the response from the West to Oct. 7 and was making a distinction between the useful idiots and the 10 percent of people who are actually evil and are calculated in their anti-Semitism.

The kids on college campuses are just naïve about how the real world works, especially once they leave the safety of U.S. borders, and are part of the 90 percent. Mamdani, however, falls under the 10 percent.

He is the kind of person who knows exactly what he is doing while at the same time using the West’s naïveté and freedom of speech to hate Jews.

Then he plays this weird game where he clarifies all his racist statements to be merely symbolic and not actually indicative of what he believes. He then pretends that YOU are the idiot for not understanding that when he says “Globalize the Intifada,” he does not mean blowing Jews up at a bus stop. What he really means is some sort of symbolic religious struggle.

Here is the truth: he hates you. No amount of kissing up to him will save you, he’ll eat you too, he’ll just eat you last, once he’s squeezed everything out of you. I promise you, as he was sitting in that sukkah, he was thinking to himself about how stupid these people are for thinking that he isn’t going to use them up and leave them to rot.

There is an argument to be made that, we need to get along with politicians and that just because we have our differences, you still don’t want to alienate yourself because then you won’t be able to do good for the community.

The reason why that argument is flawed is for the following reason:

Take a politician who is campaigning on legalizing gay marriage. As religious Jews, we obviously have a different opinion on this than the average secular person. However, we also realize that we live in a democracy, and as long as someone isn’t shoving LGBTQ down our throats in a way that we don’t appreciate, we need to all get along and compromise. Essentially, you can support this candidate and rub elbows with them in order to benefit the community even if you disagree with part of his platform. You do you, and I do me.

The difference here is that he doesn’t just have silly communist ideas, he hates Jews. Not “maybe,” or “just a little biased toward the other side.” He wants to see you dead, as a Jew, and he will rejoice the day you are no longer alive.

Here are a couple of quotes from Mamdani:

“Globalize the Intifada.”

When you hear the word Intifada as a Jew, you know exactly what it means, thousands of people killed and injured in suicide bombings. As a Muslim who hates Israel, he knows what this means too, and it is precisely why he uses it and then pretends to the communists that he just means blah blah blah, and they buy it because they also hate Jews. We are not naive Westerners.

“Israel is not a place, it is not a country, it’s an idea.”

There is not a single person who has uttered this sentence, or something along these lines that did not want Israel to be wiped off the map. It’s just code words so that he can tell his base that he hates Jews while hiding behind plausible deniability.

On top of that, he told his staff not to co-sponsor a bill for Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is something routine and symbolic and does not affect any legislation, but he could not be bothered.

The truth is, we are both going to be loaded onto the same cattle car. Except the look on your face is going to be disbelief that being a useful idiot isn’t going to save you.
What Charlie’s Death Taught America About Israel and Evil

September 14th, 2025

Americans have witnessed evil on a scale it had never experienced before and everything that followed was very interesting to watch unfold.

Americans have always had the luxury of living in peace in their own country. For starters, the idea of invading the United States is a suicide mission on its own. Forget about even trying to get past the United States military. Even if you somehow managed to do that by some miracle, you would still have to get through the civilian population. According to Legal Reader there are an estimated 4 to 5 hundred million handguns owned by civilians and 46 percent of households have at least one gun. Additionally, a lot of these gun owners are ex-military, cops, security personnel, and lots of civilians who train very seriously. You are essentially running up against a brick wall.

There is a quote that is attributed to a Japanese naval officer, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, in which he says, “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.” There is a debate as to whether he ever said this or not, but I know he never said this because he couldn’t speak English.

What came next was just pure shock. As people took it in, you could tell this wasn’t just another sad story about a school shooting that you hear about on the news. Obviously a school shooting is sad, but realistically, most people feel sad for a few minutes and then go on with their lives. As they should. Humans can’t handle thinking about all the evils in the world all the time. We would go insane.

Charlie’s assassination hit people deep in the gut. It wasn’t just a death, it was someone trying to make a point and did so by executing a man in front of his wife, kid, on live TV, while his victim was sitting in front of a live audience of 3 thousand people. The killer wanted to send a message to everyone who stood for what Charlie stood for. Freedom, religion and morality.

He chose Charlie for a very specific reason and shot him in a very specific place. Charlie was chosen because he was the loudest voice in the conservative movement and the face of young conservatism. He chose to kill him on a college campus while advocating for free speech and debate because that is what Charlie was known for and where his impact was the biggest and most effective. Additionally, Charlie was a very talented person and most people in the conservative movement believed he was going to be their nominee for president at some point in the future. Someone like this had to be taken out because he is a threat to evil,

All of this goes much deeper than one person. It goes to the very basic functioning of a society. If you cannot have an opinion without risk of getting shot in the head, then we don’t have a country to live in. A society can’t function or prosper when the threat of being executed is a real thing that can happen at any given time. You can’t trust anyone and the social fabric collapses. When that happens, the economy collapses and poverty starts to spread. With rampant poverty comes lawlessness. When there is not enough food to go around people need to turn to crime to get by. At that point you are either looking at groups breaking off into their own small countries with people that they do trust. Or, worst case scenario, there is a civil war with both sides, ironically, causing immense suffering to humans in the name of making life better for those humans which they are killing. It is the same logic that radicals use. It is that Charlie Kirk’s words will lead to violence against humans, therefore there is a moral duty to commit actual violence and kill a human so that human does not say anything that will then lead to harm to another person. This reasoning may sound bizarre but this way of thinking is how Stalin and Mao slept at night and allowed them to justify what they were doing.

Immediately, the call for justice went out. People were advocating for a public execution, while some even suggested he should be tortured first. Calls for retaliation against anybody who was involved in any way, shape or form, and maximum punishment be inflicted upon them.

As all of this was playing out, there was a noise in the background that was quiet at first, but got louder and louder until you couldn’t ignore it anymore. There were thousands of people celebrating this online. Not the one or two radicals who are always yelling from the rafters. “Regular people” were doing it in the tens of thousands. It got so out of hand that people started getting fired for what they posted.

None of these messages were cryptic at all or hidden behind memes with plausible deniability as an insurance policy. People were just saying it out loud. How much they hated him and how happy they are that he is dead. People were even mocking him and making merch of him getting shot in the neck. Just pure evil celebrating evil all in the name of justice.

There is something evil about shooting someone, but there is a whole different element of evil when you are watching people mourn a significant loss and then dance on their grave while jeering at the victim’s family and friends. Lecturing them, how the victim, who just lost their spouse/dad/brother/mentor/friend/someone they looked up to, is actually the evil one and it was the shooting victim, in this Charlie and by extension his family and friends, who made the shooter have to kill him, for the betterment of the world. They are not saying this out loud, but this is essentially the logic being used. It is evil and twisted and if it were to get out of hand, it would lead to immense suffering because these two ideologies cannot exist at the same time in the same place.

The shock that was felt as this was playing out wasn’t just because of what happened. The shock was also because for the first time evil had the confidence to poke its head out and Americans were baffled. How could it be that anyone would think shooting someone in the neck in front of his family is something to celebrate? How can it be that people see the victim’s suffering and applaud it? How do they not see the pain that they inflicted? People’s shock turned to horror as they realized the monsters and the extent of evil that exists amongst them.

In short, we have the incident of Charlie being shot. We then have the shooter who justifies this shooting according to some twisted moral logic. Then we have the absolute shock of everyone who witnessed it. Not just because of Charlie’s death but because of what Charlie represented. American values and freedom. An attack on our way of life and very existence as a people. All of this is quickly followed by a large group of people mocking Charlie and justifying what happened. This was then followed by the utter disbelief by everyone with an ounce of moral decency, that there are people who look at this through a moral lens and will tell you what a good thing this is. It makes no sense to anyone with a brain but somehow in some sick twisted way, these people are perfectly fine with killing Charlie and then anyone who gets in the way of their agenda.

All of this looks eerily similar to October 7th of ’23. Barbarians crossed the border and murdered innocent people in the name of morality and virtue. Not just did they kill one person, they killed 1200. Then account for the rape, torture, beheadings, necrophilia, publicly live streaming their executions online etc. (At least the Nazis were self-aware enough to know that they were evil and somewhat ashamed of what they did as evidenced by the fact that they tried getting rid of as much evidence of their crimes as possible as they were retreating). The same sick twisted ideology that believes that freedom is evil and that you must submit to their ways or else.

The first response was shock and disbelief. Every Jew on the planet felt this on a very personal level. They weren’t trying to just kill the Jews in the south of Israel. They only managed to get far enough to do so before being pushed back.

What obviously followed was the horror as people started finding out the extent of what actually took place. As the information was coming in everyone started sounding the alarms at what was taking place. As Jews, we expected people to have at least some level of empathy for what just happened. We expected that even people who are for a 2 state solution would at least agree that this was too far. Sadly, this couldn’t be farther from the truth.

As in the case with Charlie, there was a noise that started cutting through. That noise got so loud that you couldn’t ignore it. And to the shock of many, people were justifying Oct 7 outright with no ifs or buts. This includes Palestinians and the blue-haired militia on college campuses. Not just were they justifying it, they were encouraging and celebrating it. They lectured the victims, the Jews, who just had their loved ones murdered and gang raped, while it being streamed online, that they were evil and the real victims are the people who raped their way through the south of Israel. On October 8th, as Douglas Murray likes to so often point out, people were celebrating in the streets of N.Y. and protesting against Israel before Israel had even responded. Calling the perpetrators martyrs, explaining to the victims why they actually deserve it and then to top it all off, call for an intifada, aka exterminate the Jews. The rational being the same twisted ideology as Charlie’s killer and the killer’s supporters.

Obviously, these two cases are not exactly alike in many ways but the same theme exists in both scenarios.

The world lectured the Jews on how they were allowed to respond. Even people on the right who supported Israel were throwing out things like “proportionate response” and how Israel is not being moral enough in its approach to fighting this war. Essentially lecturing Israel from their moral high ground from some Starbucks in California on how one should react and what one can and cannot do to fight this evil.

Americans were faced with evil and they responded in the exact same way Israel did. They then experienced the fallout that the Jews experienced on Oct 7. Finally, they understand what it means that someone can take a life and not even care at all. They have have just seen this type of evil up close for the first time and it rattled them. Americans understand this evil because they are now the victims of it. It’s easy to talk when you have a cushy life in a safe country. Everything goes out the window the second it is in your backyard. They may not say it out loud and a lot of them probably won’t make the connection, but that does not change that America has finally gotten a small taste of the evil that Israelis and Jews have experienced these last two years and finally understand how horrible it is.

We’ll never know for sure, but maybe people would have judged Israel differently if October 7 had happened after Charlie’s assassination.

Tag: politics

Why is Zohran Mamdani in the Sukkah

What Charlie’s Death Taught America About Israel and Evil