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EXCLUSIVE: Why Curtis Sliwa Thinks He’ll Be The Next Mayor Of New York City

EXCLUSIVE: Curtis Sliwa Says He’s Your Next Mayor, New York City

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Some political observers are saying that New York Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a sleazy, two-faced, peddler of political snake-oil whose Communist agenda would only demonstrate yet one more wearisome time the capability of Marxism to reduce a city striving toward prosperity and peace to a rubble-strewn ruin of homelessness, crime and poverty in order to create an urban hellscape that would express through the human misery of others, a leftist like Mamdani’s virulent hatred of God, America, the Jews, humanity and himself even while he continues to disguise that hatred behind a smile of chilling insincerity and the sort of vague, Obama-like bromides of deceptive political oration that anyone but an idiot or a Democrat would recognize instantaneously as the mesmeric lies of a man whose heart has been poisoned by a diabolical socialist ideology that transforms every natural human instinct toward goodness into a bubbling black tar of destructive evil.
Other political observers are saying other things. Like, “What’s on TV tonight?” or “I wonder if it’s too late to get a reservation for dinner.” Because watching Mamdani’s rise to front-runner in the New York mayoral race is so disturbing, they’d rather think about practically anything else.
Left-leaning New York politicians are uncertain whether or not they should endorse Mamdani and have been nervously tracking the opinions of a mob of naked, blood-drenched maniacs who at first seemed to be the extras who played the rage zombies in “28 Years Later” but instead turned out to be the Democrat base. As New York Senator and career corruptocrat Chuck Schumer said, “I am one hundred percent in favor of Zohran Mamdani if that shrieking mob of naked blood-drenched zombies supports him, but if they would prefer to rampage down Fifth Avenue killing and devouring anyone who gets in their way, then I’m in favor of that instead. In other words, a lifetime of ideological pandering has left me a hollow doppelganger of the man God created me to be and I’ll basically do anything for just one more term in power before delivering the husk of what was once a human being into the hands of the Satanic overlord who owns the flaming ashes of my former soul.”
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On the other hand, shapely-but-evil New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed Mamdani enthusiastically, telling her supporters, “Men have sleep-walked into self-destruction while gazing at a hot rack like mine through all of human history, I don’t see why this mayoral election should be any different.”
Some journalists have temporarily roused themselves from the sleep of reason that produces monsters to report on some of Mamdani’s little peccadillos, like the fact that he’s a Jew-hating, Islamist-appeasing, anti-American dirtbag who once gave the finger to a statue of Christopher Columbus, and wants to defund the police, seize the means of production, transform the state of Israel into a rerun of the holocaust and reduce New York to a socialist slave-city on the order of 1970s Detroit.
But Mamdani answered those accusations in a charming speech to a vast collection of matrix-like pods that contained residents of Park Slope Brooklyn, who were happily living in a dream that the world was like it is in the New York Times while their brains were being drained of electricity in order to power the Democrat machine. Mamdani said, “Sure, I’ve got some ideas that would make New York City look like it had been trampled by a Stalinist Godzilla, but, you know, Ronald Reagan used to say that a person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally, and in the same way, a person who agrees with me 80 percent of the time will soon be lying in the gutter in a pool of his own vomit wishing he’d paid closer attention to that other 20 percent.”
The Park Slope residents greeted this speech with thunderous applause and then went back to dodging bullets in slow motion because they were dreaming they were in a New York Times editorial that said yes, Mamdani’s crime-infested New York would be riddled with gunfire, but don’t worry, just take this blue pill, and you’ll be able to dodge the bullets in slow motion.
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This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. Klavan is the bestselling author of numerous books, including the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The fourth installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1613165536?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_thcv_3&amp;storeType=ebooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Woman Underground.</a>” His most recent nonfiction release is “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Cain-Finding-Literature-Darkness/dp/0310368340/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_w=nMYjR&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.bc3ba8d1-5076-4ab7-9ba8-a5c6211e002d&amp;pf_rd_p=bc3ba8d1-5076-4ab7-9ba8-a5c6211e002d&amp;pf_rd_r=133-8344803-2786917&amp;pd_rd_wg=7a8J3&amp;pd_rd_r=5791ea0f-6d96-4732-9d6a-3a4e6b348bb5&amp;ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness.</a>” (May 2025, Zondervan/HarperCollins). Follow him on X: <a href="https://x.com/andrewklavan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@andrewklavan</a>
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Intifada! Communism! Cannibal Rage Mobs! It’s Just Another NYC Election Season

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New York City is not only poised to have its first Muslim mayor but also its first mayor who blatantly refuses to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggV2SeiGrVw">condemn</a> the widely used motto “Globalize the Intifada.”
When asked three times on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the Ugandan-born, democratic socialist assemblyman from Queens, Zohran Mamdani, refused to condemn the appalling call for violence. This should, at the very least, be unsettling for New Yorkers and Americans alike.
Not only is the call for intifada a petition for violence, but it is also a call for the installation of Islamic rule. One of the tenets of the Intifada is the complete installation of Sharia Law. For those who care about human rights, few things should cause more concern than the implementation of Sharia Law. To put it mildly, Sharia Law’s track record on human rights is far from stellar. Nearly all of the 35 countries that have adopted Sharia Law are on the <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-countries-human-rights-watchlist-us-2043007">Human Rights Watch list</a> at “closed” or “repressed” levels – the two most at-risk categories. Also, countries with Sharia law make up nearly half the countries designated as <a href="https://www.uscirf.gov/countries/2025-recommendations">“Countries of Particular Concern”</a> on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom’s list.
What’s even more alarming is the exponential growth of Sharia Law around the globe. In 1980, Saudi Arabia was the only country that officially applied Sharia Law. By 2000, that number had risen to 16. Currently, more than 35 of the 195 countries in the world have incorporated Sharia Law in their legal systems.
Sharia Law enforces Islamic principles in civil and criminal matters, guided by the subjective interpretations of the mostly male Islamic scholars (called Fiqhs), formalized through consensus (called Ijmas). It governs issues like apostasy, blasphemy, alcohol consumption, stealing, adultery, homosexuality, and forced marriages. Punishments, known as Hadud, vary but are severe in strict Quran-adhering regions and range from death for apostasy, blasphemy, or homosexuality; caning (often 40 lashes) for alcohol or drug use; hand amputation for theft; and stoning, flogging, or genital mutilation for other offenses.
These are the realities of Sharia Law when fully applied.
As the founder of <a href="https://www.acrossnigeria.org/">a mission</a> working in the remote and dangerous <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-silent-slaughter-inside-nigerias-christian-persecution-crisis?author=Brad+Brandon&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+Silent+Slaughter%3A+Inside+Nigeria%E2%80%99s+Christian+Persecution+Crisis">northern region of Nigeria</a>, I have seen the horrific impacts Sharia Law has on people. I have spent nearly a third of my adult life in areas that impose strict interpretations of the Quran and regularly enforce the cruel punishments of Sharia Law.
Years ago, I saw a young man flogged 40 times in a village for using drugs, his guilt vaguely established. Sharia’s standards of proof are low compared to modern legal systems. Later, I met an older man with both hands amputated for stealing – once in his youth, then again while struggling with hunger, in a country where people barely earn enough money to feed themselves. Others I know face life in brutal prisons for apostasy or blasphemy. Sharia’s punishments – flogging, amputation, imprisonment – deliver severe consequences that should make anyone concerned about basic human rights shudder.
Sharia Law has little to no regard for human rights and almost never shows mercy to those who trespass its pretenses, including women and children.
Sharia Law’s emergence in states with rising Muslim populations, like my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6QC_qEyl0Q">home state of Minnesota</a>, worries me. In the U.S., Sharia currently operates through local councils that mediate disputes and personal matters within Muslim communities, always under state and federal laws.
Yet, challenges arise. In 2009, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Joseph Charles relied on a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/advocates-of-anti-shariah-measures-alarmed-by-judges-ruling">family’s Imam</a> in a spousal abuse case, denying the woman a protective order. Though an appellate court overturned the ruling, this case reveals Sharia’s potential to influence U.S. legal systems, extending beyond community guidelines and testing national authority.
In Europe, there is no greater example of Sharia Law’s infiltration than in the United Kingdom. The U.K. is now being called the <a href="https://www.gbnews.com/news/britain-sharia-law-courts-western-capital">“western capital” of Sharia Law</a>, with more than 85 “councils” operating across the country. These Islamic councils have become a blatant assault on human rights, particularly against women and children. Under Sharia Law, a woman’s testimony is worth half of a man’s. This discrimination has far-reaching effects in matters of spousal abuse, divorce, child custody, and financial matters just to name a few. According to these Sharia councils, a woman’s right to divorce is heavily restricted, whereas a man’s right to divorce is unilateral. These kinds of discrimination are illegal in the government and workplaces in the U.K. But when it comes to Sharia Law they are promoted.
The most alarming aspect of this is that under the <a href="https://lawandreligionuk.com/2012/10/24/sharia-law-the-arbitration-act-1996-and-the-arbitration-and-mediation-services-equality-bill/">U.K.’s Arbitration Act</a>, the rulings of these Sharia councils are precedent rulings and are being used in the British courts. This is happening across Europe. In so much that the Council of Europe has <a href="https://eclj.org/religious-freedom/pace/le-conseil-de-leurope-sinquite-grandement-de-lapplication-de-la-charia-en-europe?lng=en">issued a report </a>stating they are “greatly concerned” by the application of Sharia Law in Europe, specifically listing the U.K., Greece, Germany, and Chechnya. This imposition of Sharia Law has even created enough concern in the U.S. that <a href="https://www.mapsofworld.com/answers/united-states/states-outlawed-sharia-law/">16 states have passed legislation banning Sharia Law,</a> and more than two dozen have anti-Sharia bills introduced.
It&#8217;s not hyperbole or hysterics to be concerned about the imposition of Sharia Law and its inhumane practices in the United States. All one has to do is look at the scores of Western countries that have opened the door to it. In every case, human rights are being trampled and disregarded. It’s not at all unreasonable for every American to be concerned when the Democratic nominee of the nation’s largest city is a man who will not condemn the idea of a global intifada and its assault on human rights through the spread of Sharia Law.
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<a href="https://www.acrossnigeria.org/ourfounder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brad Brandon</a> is the founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.acrossnigeria.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Across Nigeria</a>. Since 2018, he has been actively serving in predominantly high-risk, highly persecuted areas like Northern Nigeria and other parts of West Africa.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Global Rise Of Sharia Law And Mamdani’s ‘Intifada’ Silence

The Global Rise Of Sharia Law And Mamdani’s 'Intifada' Silence

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So far, Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year old who won the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, is still just a candidate. But in heavily Democratic New York, the Republican, radio host Curtis Sliwa, has little chance of winning. A recent <a href="https://www.racetothewh.com/nycmayorpolling">poll</a> puts Mamdani at 36.4% compared to Sliwa’s 16.3%.
That means the only man standing between Mamdani and the mayor’s office is Eric Adams, a Democrat who last year was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-charged-bribery-and-campaign-finance-offenses">charged</a> with bribery and campaign finance violations. He has also angered his own party by failing to oppose immigration enforcement as much as other “sanctuary city” mayors like Chicago’s Brandon Johnson or Los Angeles’s Karen Bass.
New Yorkers have heard some of Mamdani’s proposals: rent control, free buses, higher taxes on higher earners, city-owned grocery stores, freeing criminal suspects without bail, legalizing prostitution, and replacing some police with social workers.
If one is unfamiliar with history, these promises might sound good. As the Babylon Bee put it, “<a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-discover-innovative-strategy-of-promising-free-stuff-to-stupid-people">Democrats Discover Innovative Strategy of Promising Free Stuff to Stupid People</a>.” This is funny, but unfair. There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. New Yorkers aren’t stupid. And plenty of smart people are ignorant – meaning they just don’t know certain things.
Like how New York was back in the 1980s. Those of us who remember the city when Times Square was a den of squalor will know that Sliwa also founded the Guardian Angels, the red-beret sporting extended neighborhood watch that rode the subway to fight crime.
But that was 40 years ago. Most New Yorkers today have no direct experience with that era. At least half of them weren’t educated in New York; they came from abroad or from other states. Nationally, only 13% of U.S. eighth graders are <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=1160">proficient</a> in American history. I doubt they know much more about world history, or how “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/we-must-educate-future-generations-the-myths-and-realities-socialism">true socialism</a>” worked when tried.
Those who were raised in New York mostly went through a public school system where, a <a href="https://medium.com/@newyorkteacher/update-guess-all-bs-on-nys-january-regents-exam-3dd8f2a0a713">researcher found</a>, students could pass a math exam by just guessing answer “C” every time.
Some New Yorkers may not know what Mamdani means by “socialism,” “Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS),” and “owning the means of production,” which he talked about in this short clip <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1939516740909621286">posted</a> to X by @EndWokeness. Let me briefly explain.
“Socialism” is how communists describe themselves. Look at the now-defunct Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the current communist countries, the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Republic of Cuba, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and the Lao People’s Republic – none of them mentions “communism” in its name or its official description of itself.
The only thing that makes the American version “Democratic,” as in the “Democratic Socialists of America” organization that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Summer Lee belong to, is that they seek to come to power through elections, rather than violent revolution.
The “BDS” Mamdani wants is about Israel. The <a href="https://bdsmovement.net/what-bds">BDS movement</a> is a “Palestinian-led movement” that seeks to force Israel to accept a Palestinian state on dictated terms by pressuring governments and private companies to boycott (meaning not buy) Israeli goods and services; divest (meaning pull out all investments in Israel and Israeli companies); and sanction (meaning bans on business, finance, travel, etc.).
When he says he wants to “raise class consciousness,” Mamdani is talking about Karl Marx’s vision for how capitalist societies turn communist. Once the worker masses realize they are being exploited, Marxist theory goes, they will overthrow capitalism, take over the government, and “establish a more equitable society.” (Yes, that’s the same “equity” as in DEI, the ideology that captured Western <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7524478/">governments</a>, <a href="https://www.ie.edu/insights/articles/education-for-a-more-equitable-society/">education</a>, <a href="https://www.unitedwaygcr.org/news/together-we-can-build-more-just-and-equitable-society">NGOs</a>, and <a href="https://www.unilever.com/news/news-search/2021/how-we-will-help-build-a-more-equitable-and-inclusive-society/">companies</a>).
Mamdani said the “end goal” of socialism is “seizing the means of production,” by which he means the government taking over factories, companies, mines, energy producers, farms, restaurants, service providers, your aunt’s Etsy page – anything or anyone that creates value, from a Barbie doll to an F-150 truck. The core idea of socialism is that all of it should be taken from private ownership and given to the government to run.
The government will then decide what each of us needs to live on – “<a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm">from each, according to his abilities; to each, according to his needs</a>.” If this sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because it has been tried before – first in the USSR, then in China, Cuba, North Korea, and in various countries in between in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. And with a 100% failure rate.
Every time, once the coveted “means of production” got into the hands of government functionaries — who inevitably grew corrupt — they ceased to produce efficiently and were run into the ground. Under socialism, instead of markets efficiently allocating capital to industry to produce what people need and want, bureaucrats do it through central planning, resulting in starvation, poverty, and misery.
China might be seen as a slight exception to the rule, but that’s only because it ditched much of communism’s economic orthodoxy and let favored people make money, while keeping the corrupt, nepotistic structure of the Communist Party and its social control machinery.
Mamdani reminds us “we need to remember what the stakes are.” He’s right. He’s smart, charming, and media savvy, which makes it all the more important that New Yorkers closely scrutinize his past and current comments and policy positions.
If Mamdani makes it to Gracie Mansion and keeps his promises, he will bring socialism to New York City, good and hard. It will work just as well as it ever did. And some of Manhattan’s wealthy residents will react just like Havana’s did in 1959 – they’ll go to Miami.
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Simon Hankinson is a Senior Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, and author of the forthcoming book “The Woke Ten Commandments (You Must Not Obey)” from Academica Press.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Socialism In A Designer Suit: NYC Is In For A Hard Lesson If Mamdani Is Elected

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New York City landlords and real estate developers are panicking about the prospect of Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor, frantically throwing money at his opponents and threatening to leave the city altogether.
Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of the Big Apple last month in a bombshell upset that threw the election into chaos.
The self-described democratic socialist is <a href="https://www.zohranfornyc.com/platform">campaigning</a> on freezing rents for two million New Yorkers living in rent-stabilized apartments.
He has also said he has “many critiques of capitalism” and quoted Martin Luther King Jr., saying, “there must be a better distribution of wealth” in the country.
This is not music to the ears of the city’s real estate moguls, who are scrambling to make sure Mamdani does not get the chance to take the reins of the city.
One New York real estate mogul, Marc Holliday, chief executive of the real estate investment trust SL Green, hosted a cocktail fundraising event on the rooftop of one of his Manhattan office towers on Wednesday to raise money for incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent.
Tickets to the fundraiser were $2,000 a pop.
“There’s going to be a lot of these fundraisers,” Noble Black, a New York City luxury real-estate broker, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/nyc-real-estate-mayor-eric-adams-zohran-mamdani-21cf617f?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAif3L_ZKsxu0MvQj8kQ49XJjqXkEazSu1RZpTQmTfFfZ1t5-3crxyQXcbwSJg%3D%3D&amp;gaa_ts=6870240f&amp;gaa_sig=PW0xw_4vUH8iwIkCdq5AkTPxzepqsyPDMIBVRRv9ctkzdrzKrS4E2ekbUifRg8zRYL3FVuqdpLxSXeLLkscYxA%3D%3D">told</a> the Wall Street Journal.
“Everyone is talking about how much wealth is aligning against Mamdani,” Black said.
Another fundraiser for Adams was held by a real estate couple in the Hamptons over the weekend that included several New York City billionaires and real estate investors.
Several real estate power brokers are also planning additional events, according to the Journal, including one that will feature social media influencers to attract younger voters.
Meanwhile, landlords say Mamdani’s policies would be a catastrophe for them.
The rent freezing plan is “a recipe for disaster,” Kenny Burgos, head of the New York Apartment Association, one of the city’s largest trade groups, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/new-york-faces-landlord-exodus-zohran-mamdani-housing-plans-2095903">told</a> Newsweek.
Burgos noted that rents are not being hiked in rent-stabilized apartments, thereby burdening tenants in a manner similar to the “free market.”
He told the outlet that while larger landlords might be making a profit, smaller owners, such as rent-stabilized landlords, are struggling.
“This is almost a tale of two cities. And this is why the policy that Mamdani is pushing forth is so dangerous,” Burgos said. “We’re in the middle of a crisis that he will inherit, that he will accelerate, and that will destroy the housing market in New York City.”
Many wealthy landlords would likely get out of New York City if Mamdani wins, according to real estate experts.
“Landlords are facing mounting pressure — with high taxes and operating costs, it’s becoming unsustainable to hold properties without the ability to adjust rents. Many are now evaluating out-of-state investments as a safer, more profitable alternative,” Jay Batra, a real estate entrepreneur and the principal of Batra Real Estate, a full-service real estate brokerage in New York City and Miami, told Newsweek.
Besides rent freezes, Mamdani has proposed other expensive policies, including government-run grocery stores, free buses, free city universities, free childcare, increasing New York City’s minimum wage to $30 an hour, and investing $65 million in transgender drugs and surgeries.

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New York Landlords Freak Out Over Mamdani, Threaten To Leave, And Throw Money At Eric Adams

A new poll shows Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani holding a commanding 10-point lead in New York City&#8217;s mayoral race this week, with incumbent Mayor Eric Adams trailing in fourth place.
The Slingshot Strategies <a href="https://www.slingshotstrat.com/media/slingshot-mayoral-poll-general-election-7-9">poll</a>, conducted between July 2-6, showed socialist Mamdani capturing 35% of registered voters, with former Governor Andrew Cuomo at 25%, Republican Curtis Sliwa at 14%, and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams trailing with just 11%.
Adams faces an uphill battle with a dismal 28% approval rating and 62% disapproval. By contrast, Mamdani enjoys a net favorable rating of +4 (40% favorable vs. 36% unfavorable), while even the scandal-plagued Andrew Cuomo outperforms Adams, with 44% viewing him favorably and 46% unfavorably.
Other polls have found similar results, including a pro-Adams <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/04/us-news/new-pro-adams-poll-still-has-nyc-mayor-trailing-cuomo-by-double-digits/">poll</a> that still showed Mamdani leading with 41%, followed by Cuomo at 26%, Adams at 16%, and Sliwa at 10%.
Adams&#8217; support has collapsed even among his traditional base, with only 16% of black respondents saying they would back the mayor in the general election, compared to 35% for Mamdani and 32% for Cuomo, according to the poll.
The current contest represents a significant fracturing of Democratic power, with incumbent Mayor Adams – who campaigned as a moderate, pro-police Democrat – now being challenged from both the far-Left in Mamdani and the establishment wing in Cuomo.
While Mamdani&#8217;s 35% support is far from a majority, Slingshot founding partner Evan Roth Smith <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/09/us-news/eric-adams-nyc-mayoral-election-chances-are-under-water-poll/">emphasized</a> to the New York Post that the electoral math looks increasingly difficult for Adams.
&#8220;The problem is the ballot is set. And the strongest Mamdani alternative in this poll is Andrew Cuomo, who just lost to him decisively in the Democratic primary,&#8221; Smith noted. “And the Mamdani alternative that seems to have the most momentum as a fresh alternative is Eric Adams, who’s polling barely in the double digits and seems to have lost credibility everywhere in the election.”
Adams has faced widespread dissatisfaction with his administration, which has faced multiple federal investigations and criticism over the handling of the migrant crisis and public safety issues.
Despite being a Democrat, Adams performs best among Republican voters, receiving 26% support compared to Mamdani&#8217;s 7%, although Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa leads that demographic with 43%.
“There’s simply not enough Republican support for someone who is a sitting Democratic mayor of New York,” Smith added. “So it’s really, really difficult when someone is polling at 11% and the ballot isn’t changing to see what the path to victory is.”
Mamdani, a 33-year-old Assemblyman from Queens, has positioned himself as an unapologetic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zohran-mamdani-says-he-has-many-critiques-of-capitalism?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Zohran+Mamdani+Says+He+Has+%E2%80%98Many+Critiques+Of+Capitalism%E2%80%99">socialist</a>. He has advocated for rent control, increasing taxes on the wealthy, and reallocating police funding to social services – policies that have raised concerns among moderate Democrats and the business community.
“You have a large number of largely white, largely outer borough homeowners who are not necessarily Democrats, who are skeptical of Mamdani,” Smith explained. “The problem is getting those voters together behind either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams seems to still be a pretty tall order, and becomes even more difficult since they’re both in the race.”
Cuomo and Adams have engaged in public <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/zohran-mamdani-leads-general-election-poll-00443469">feuding</a>, with each calling for the other to drop out to consolidate opposition against Mamdani, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-falls-to-radical-socialist-zohran-mamdani-in-nyc-mayoral-primary?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Andrew+Cuomo+Falls+To+Radical+Socialist+Zohran+Mamdani+In+NYC+Mayoral+Primary">won</a> the Democratic primary with 56% to Cuomo&#8217;s 44% in the final round of ranked-choice voting.
Adams’ campaign spokesperson Todd Shapiro dismissed the poll in a <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/09/us-news/eric-adams-nyc-mayoral-election-chances-are-under-water-poll/">statement</a> to the New York Post, saying, “just weeks ago, Andrew Cuomo was ahead in multiple polls and then went on to lose the primary by double digits.”
“The latest Slingshot poll is just another example of how out-of-touch and unreliable political polling has become,” he said.

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Mamdani Surges To 10-Point Lead In NYC Mayoral Race, Adams Craters To Fourth Place: Poll

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Robotaxis produced by Google&#8217;s sister company, Waymo, rolled out onto New York City streets earlier this week as it tests the vehicles with &#8220;human safety operators&#8221; in America&#8217;s most populous city for the first time.
Waymo submitted its application to the New York State Department of Transportation (DOT) last month to roll out a &#8220;small fleet&#8221; of robotaxis, but to comply with state law, the company must place a human in each car, at least for now, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/09/us-news/self-driving-robotaxi-service-waymo-launches-nyc-pilot-testing/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social">reported</a>. Waymo and the DOT are currently pushing for the state to change its law that requires human drivers in each vehicle. Two bills introduced earlier this year to overturn the state&#8217;s ban on self-driving vehicles are still in committee.
“We are working hard to bring Waymo to New Yorkers in the future, starting with this testing and advocating for changes to state law,” a DOT representative told the Post.
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We&#39;re on the move in the Big Apple! 🏙️ We&#39;ve begun testing in New York – be sure to give us a wave and snap a pic if you see us in the city. <a href="https://t.co/0cu2XSWAoi">pic.twitter.com/0cu2XSWAoi</a>
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“The data to date shows that Waymo outperforms human drivers, significantly reducing the frequency of injury-causing traffic collisions,” said a spokesman for Waymo.
The manually driven Waymo vehicles in NYC will be servicing Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, according to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/waymo-heading-to-philadelphia-and-nyc/">TechCrunch</a>. They will also map out parts of New Jersey, focusing on Jersey City and Hoboken. Waymo vehicles also hit Philadelphia this week, where the vehicles will be seen throughout the downtown area as well as driving “at all hours throughout various Philadelphia neighborhoods, from North Central to Eastwick, University City, and as far east as the Delaware River.”
Waymo&#8217;s move to NYC and Philadelphia this week is part of the company&#8217;s &#8220;road trips,&#8221; a plan used to send small batches of human-driven vehicles to cities across the United States to map out areas where Waymo could expand its services in the future. Waymo also plans to embark on &#8220;road trips&#8221; to Houston, Orlando, Las Vegas, San Diego, and San Antonio this year, TechCrunch reported.
&#8220;Once the Waymo Driver understands the lay of the land, the vehicles can begin driving autonomously. During these trips, human specialists provide feedback to our engineering teams on the driving experience and flag unique nuances that might come with operating in new areas. Simultaneously, our engineering team can evaluate the Waymo Driver&#8217;s performance in a virtual replica of the new location,&#8221; Waymo <a href="https://waymo.com/blog/2023/11/road-trip-how-our-cross-country-testing-helps-advance-the-waymo-driver">said</a> in November 2023.
Waymo&#8217;s self-driving robotaxis are currently <a href="https://waymo.com/">operating</a> in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Atlanta, and Austin.
As Waymo looks to roll out robotaxis in more cities, it has also been forced to address some issues with its driverless cars. In May, Waymo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/over-1200-self-driving-robotaxis-recalled-due-to-software-glitch-that-led-to-crashes">recalled</a> more than 1,200 of its robotaxis after a software glitch caused multiple crashes into chains, gates, or other roadway barriers, objects that road safety regulators said &#8220;a competent driver would be expected to avoid.&#8221;
Waymo said that it fixed the issue with a regular update to its fifth-generation self-driving software in November 2024.
Some Los Angeles and San Francisco residents have also recorded incidents involving driverless Waymo vehicles, including confusion, backing into oncoming traffic, and blocking emergency vehicles.
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Waymo turned into oncoming traffic on the way to work.
It sat there confused for 45 seconds with its hazards on.
Then it proceeded to back up into oncoming traffic.
And they’re about to let these guys on the freeway 😂 <a href="https://t.co/ZLRKx2loo1">pic.twitter.com/ZLRKx2loo1</a>
&mdash; Jake Glaser | LA Multifamily (@LAMultiBroker) <a href="https://twitter.com/LAMultiBroker/status/1885370114054512921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Videos like this is why I have my doubts on Waymo. 
Blocking three emergency vehicles in the middle of an intersection, and it just looks confused. <a href="https://t.co/wUe7RDltzL">pic.twitter.com/wUe7RDltzL</a>
&mdash; Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane) <a href="https://twitter.com/niccruzpatane/status/1929590206488883246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Americans may be shocked by Zohran Mamdani’s radical politics. But the communist upstart’s views wouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar with his father.
Mahmood Mamdani, a professor at Columbia University, claimed on a panel at the Jaipur Literature Festival in New York in 2022 that Hitler was inspired by Abraham Lincoln, that the antisemitic Nuremberg laws were patterned after American laws, and that “the Nazi political project was shared by the allies.”
The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFATiIOE0bM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> centered around the release of his book, “Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making And Unmaking Of Permanent Minorities,” which “explores the nature of the nation-state, and the path to a reimagined, decolonized future.”
Mahmood Mamdani began by saying that “America is the genesis of what we call settler-colonialism” around the world. He goes on to say that Adolf Hitler got the idea of the Holocaust from President Abraham Lincoln:
“With the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations, they herded American Indians into separate territories. For the Nazis, this was the inspiration — Hitler realized two things: one, that genocide is doable. It is possible to do genocide, that’s what Hitler realized. Second thing Hitler realized is that you don’t have to have a common citizenship.”
Mahmood Mamdani also said that Nazi Germany’s racist and antisemitic <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/nuremberg-laws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nuremberg Laws</a> were “patterned after American laws.”
Moreover, “The Nazi political project was shared by the Allies, and that political project was to turn Germany into a ‘pure’ nation.”
“When the Allies defeated the Nazis and went into Eastern Europe, they began to create ‘pure’ nations. To ethnically cleanse Eastern Europe of Germans — move them back into Germany. One crime doesn’t wipe out another.”
Mahmood Mamdani’s book reveals a blatantly Marxist philosophy: “There are two kinds of identities, there is the identity of the oppressor and the identity of the oppressed,” he said.
He argues that “The nation state is what prevents us from living together.” This is because “The majority precedes democracy.” The tension between citizen and subject, or majority and minority, is an inherent consequence of colonialism:
“I argue that nationalism and colonialism are not two different things. We normally think of two kinds of nationalism, good nationalism and bad nationalism. Good nationalism brought us together and bad nationalism targeted other minorities. The important thing to realize is that these two things happen at the same time, they are two sides of the same coin,” he stated.
In order to eliminate oppression, Mamdani argues that we need to <a href="https://novaramedia.com/2025/07/03/if-you-like-zohran-mamdani-youre-going-to-love-his-dad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismantle</a> “colonialist architecture,” stating that “the tribes must take charge and the tribes must be sovereign.”
In an interview with the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-parents-mira-nair.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a>, the elder Mamdani stressed that Zohran is “his own person.”
“Now, of course what we do as his parents is part of the environment in which he grew up, and he couldn’t help but engage with it. That doesn’t mean anything is reflected back on us.”
Zohran’s mother, the director Amrit Nair, disagreed: “Of course the world we live in, and what we write and film and think about, is the world that Zohran has very much absorbed.”
Zohran Mamdani self-identifies as a democratic socialist and has espoused numerous radical socialist policies, including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/realestate/mamdani-rent-freeze-real-estate.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">freezing the rent</a> on a million apartments, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/nyregion/mamdani-policies-economy-housing-buses-childcare.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raising the minimum wage</a> to 30$ by 2030, making child care and the bus system free, replacing police with teams of <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a7ejjSZWWIAcxfcWnkYaqvnjihTb0LAOQkj8g10-npg/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.2gazcsgmxkub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mental health professionals</a>, and establishing city-run grocery stores.
PolitiFact recently rebuffed President Donald Trump’s claim that Zohran Mamdani was a communist. But, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/politifact-says-mamdani-is-not-a-communist-the-expert-they-cite-is-a-socialist?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=20&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=PolitiFact+Says+Mamdani+Is+Not+A+Communist.+The+Expert+They+Cite+Is+A+Socialist." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, the expert they cited was himself a longtime socialist.

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If you wanted to assure the American public that a rising political star wasn&#8217;t a communist, you probably wouldn&#8217;t turn to an avowed socialist for his &#8220;expert&#8221; analysis.
But that&#8217;s what PolitiFact just did for Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City in a bombshell upset last month.
After his win, critics immediately raised the alarm that Mamdani would bring communism to the Big Apple. The self-described democratic socialist has proposed radical policies like government-run grocery stores, rent freezes, and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/resurfaced-video-shows-nyc-mayoral-hopeful-saying-he-wants-replace-private-homes-communal-living">converting</a> housing from private to public.
President Donald Trump called Mamdani a &#8220;100% Communist Lunatic,&#8221; and New York Rep. Elise Stefanik and a number of conservative commentators branded him a communist as well.
So, PolitiFact geared up to defend him.
Two days after Mamdani&#8217;s victory, PolitiFact published a &#8220;<a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/jun/26/donald-trump/Zohran-Mamdani-democratic-socialist-communist-NYC/">fact check</a>&#8221; stating that claims he is a communist are &#8220;false.&#8221;
To support its claims, PolitiFact interviewed Geoffrey Kurtz, a political science professor who has <a href="https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/faculty/geoffrey-kurtz/">taught</a> for 18 years at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York.
&#8220;The idea that Mamdani is a communist is an absurd slander,&#8221; Kurtz told the outlet.
But Kurtz isn&#8217;t just a professor. He was a socialist activist <a href="https://ncfcatalyst.com/not-so-new-college-2/">in college</a> and remains a socialist today.
Kurtz was involved with the campus chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America while earning his bachelor&#8217;s at New College of Florida, <a href="https://ncfcatalyst.com/not-so-new-college-2/">according</a> to the school&#8217;s student newspaper.
The campus chapter&#8217;s pamphlets reportedly addressed members as &#8220;dear radicals.&#8221;
Kurtz continued to be involved with the organization after he graduated college, when he was an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM-vllyxKIw">editor</a> of the Democratic Socialists of America’s Religion and Socialism Blog.
The professor has also written <a href="https://www.dsausa.org/blog/what-religious-socialists-bring-to-our-table/">multiple</a> <a href="https://www.religioussocialism.org/a_socialist_reads_advent">times</a> about being a &#8220;religious socialist.&#8221;
The authors of the PolitiFact &#8220;fact check&#8221; did not respond to a request for comment.
In the end, PolitiFact concluded that Mamdani&#8217;s platform is &#8220;not akin to communism, a system in which the government controls the means of production and takes over private businesses.&#8221;
&#8220;We rate this statement False,&#8221; PolitiFact stated.
Hilariously though, PolitiFact failed to acknowledge Mamdani&#8217;s own social media posts talking about workers seizing the &#8220;means of production,&#8221; a key Marxist concept.
&#8220;If we want everyone to be full participants in the economy, we need worker ownership of the means of production,&#8221; Mamdani <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1333943646777913346">posted</a> on X in 2020.
On Thursday, PolitiFact added an editor&#8217;s note saying the White House had alerted them to Mamdani&#8217;s old posts. The outlet said it re-interviewed several experts, but still decided Mamdani still isn&#8217;t a communist.
&#8220;We found the significance of [Mamdani&#8217;s] comment inconclusive and not reflective of his 2025 mayoral platform, so our rating remains unchanged,&#8221; the editor&#8217;s note reads.
Go figure.
&#8220;I had the impression that Mamdani intended that phrase as lighthearted hyperbole. I see no reason to assume that the phrase conveys anything precise about what he thinks,&#8221; Kurtz, the socialist professor, <a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/03/seizing-means-production-Zohran-Mamdani/">told</a> PolitiFact when they interviewed him again.
Hyperbole, huh? Well, as Xi Van Fleet — a survivor of Mao&#8217;s Cultural Revolution in Communist China — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-lived-in-the-communist-world-zohran-mamdani-dreams-of-its-worse-than-you-could-imagine">wrote for The Daily Wire</a> last week, there&#8217;s nothing lighthearted about Mamdani&#8217;s political platform.
&#8220;The danger of Communism is not that it comes all at once, but that it creeps in gradually, wrapped in words like &#8216;justice&#8217; and &#8216;equity,'&#8221; Van Fleet wrote. &#8220;But behind the slogans lies a brutal reality: misery, scarcity, and repression.&#8221;

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PolitiFact Says Mamdani Is Not A Communist. The Expert They Cite Is A Socialist.

PolitiFact's 'Fact Check' Says Mamdani Is Not A Communist. Their Expert Is A Socialist.

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Speaking to attendees at the Claremont Institute over the weekend, Vice President JD Vance took aim at New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, explaining that he embodied all the contradictions within the American Left.
Referring to Mamdani as a “33-year-old communist running an insurgent campaign,” Vance posited that Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic mayoral primary revealed “interesting threads&#8221; that were &#8220;reflective of where the broader American Left is at this moment in time.”
Vance spoke of how President Donald Trump’s victory represented a “broad working-and-middle-class coalition,” while Mamdani’s coalition was “almost the inverse of that.”
Vance pointed out that Mamdani “won high-income and college-educated New Yorkers, and especially both young, highly educated New Yorkers, but he was weakest among black voters and weakest among those without a college degree.” He added that Mamdani “did particularly well in the Bangladeshi areas of New York, but he did particularly poorly with non-Bangladeshi Asian immigrants, particularly Chinese-Americans.”
“His victory was the product of a lot of young people who live reasonably comfortable lives, but see that their elite degrees aren’t really delivering what they expected, and so their own prospects with all the college debt may not in fact be greater than those of their parents,” he said.
“We have to be honest about where his coalition is,” Vance opined. “It is not the downtrodden. It is not poor Americans. It is not about dispossession. It’s about elite disaffection and elite anger. The party of highly educated, but downwardly mobile elites &#8230; they comprise a highly energetic activist base, but it’s important because it’s not just the elites, the college-educated New Yorkers, that base was supplemented by carefully selected ethnic blocs carved out of the electorate using identity politics as the knife.”
Vance noted that Mamdani’s desire to appeal to ethnic blocs was reflected in his “bizarre appeals to foreign politics, intended to signal to one particular group of New Yorkers or another.”
“Let us ask ourselves why is a mayoral candidate in our nation’s biggest city whining about banning Bibi Netanyahu, a country whose population is about the same size as that of New York, and threatening to arrest a foreign leader if he tries to come to New York City?” he asked. “Why is a New York mayoral candidate attacking Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, as a war criminal? Why is he talking about ‘globalizing the intifada’?”
“But what might seem like a contradiction makes a little bit of sense if you peel back the onion,” he speculated. “Consider a movement that rails against the billionaire class, despite the fact that the billionaire class remains firmly in the corner of the modern Left; a movement that idolizes foreign religions, even as it rejects the teachings of those faiths. It rails, this new modern Left against white people, even as many of its funders and its grassroots activists are privileged whites themselves.”
“What unites Islamists, gender-studies majors, socially liberal white urbanites, and Big Pharma lobbyists &#8230; isn’t the ideas of Thomas Jefferson or even of Karl Marx; it’s hatred,” he stated. “They hate the people in this room. They hate the President of the United States, and most of all, they hate the people who voted for that President of the United States in the last election in November. This is the animating principle of the American far-Left.”
“That’s why Mamdani himself is such an appealing instrument to the Left,” Vance said. “He captures so many of the movement’s apparent contradictions in a single human being; a guy who describes the Palestinian cause as central to his identity yet holds views like abortion on demand or using taxpayer-funded money to fund transgender surgeries for minors. These views, of course, are completely incomprehensible on the streets of Gaza. This guy represents that contradiction.”
“He’s trying to tear something down and he’s very effective at articulating all of the things that the far-Left hates in modern America,” he concluded.
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It’s no secret that history’s oldest prejudice is on the rise in the Big Apple. In 2024, the NYPD <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-nyc-jews-targeted-in-hate-crimes-more-than-all-other-groups-combined-in-2024/">recorded</a> an antisemitic attack every 25 hours. All in all, there were 345 antisemitic hate crimes, which constituted roughly 54% of all hate crimes reported in the city.
When it comes to combating these trends, the city’s Department of Education (DOE) has been missing in action. Parents, teachers, and students have repeatedly complained that the city’s public schools have done <a href="https://mjhnyc.org/press/jewish-advocates-demand-policy-changes-to-combat-antisemitism-at-nyc-public-high-schools/">very little</a> to address antisemitic incidents on their campuses.
Moreover, antisemitic propaganda — including an article from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan declaring that “Jewish behavior has ill-affected Black people and others” — has <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/31/us-news/nyc-teachers-getting-anti-israel-literature-in-doe-schools/">dripped</a> into school newsletters, materials, and mass emails at least five times over the past couple of months.
However, the DOE won’t sit on the sidelines for much longer. Its latest initiative? A new Jewish addition to the existing Hidden Voices social studies curriculum, which <a href="https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/06/16/natalia-mehlman-petrzela-discusses-jewish-america-history-fighting-antisemitism-in-hidden-voices-curriculum/">focuses</a> on “centering diverse historical figures left out of typical textbooks.” In this case, that includes profiles of Jewish figures like WNBA player Nancy Lieberman and sex-positive therapist and talk-show host Ruth Westheimer. These profiles are intended to provide role models for Jewish students and introduce others to Jews’ contributions to society.
But don’t be fooled. This isn’t a serious attempt to battle antisemitism in New York City. It’s just a shallow gesture that lumps Jews into the very DEI bubble that helped create this problem to begin with. While Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives are often well-intentioned, this won’t protect the city’s Jews, it’ll just paint a bigger target on their backs.
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, the historian behind NYC Public Schools&#8217; &#8220;Hidden Voices&#8221; social studies curriculum made it clear that her &#8220;Jewish American&#8221; history segment is an identity-based curriculum — she <a href="https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/06/16/natalia-mehlman-petrzela-discusses-jewish-america-history-fighting-antisemitism-in-hidden-voices-curriculum/">told</a> Chalkbeat New York that &#8220;these materials push educators and students to think about who identity-based curricula are for,&#8221; and that she hopes the program &#8220;invigorates [students] to commit to a pluralism and universalism that I personally think is the beating heart of a healthy community.&#8221;
Simply put, Petrzela argues that by lumping Jews — who she calls a “tiny minority” — in with other DEI groups, we can all learn more about each other.
Yet Petrzela’s approach ignores DEI’s fatal flaw. Most DEI programs <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pedagogy-Oppressed-Anniversary-Paulo-Freire/dp/0826412769">root their philosophy</a> in an oppressor vs oppressed binary, where the oppressed can do no wrong and the oppressors should be treated with contempt. This binary is especially dangerous for Jews because they rose from poverty and persecution around the world to become one of the most successful and enduring subgroups in the United States. Therefore, many DEI advocates, whether they know it or not, <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-dei-complex-will-never-protect-jews">relegate</a> Jews into the “oppressor” category.
New York City’s schools are no exception — after all, state-level officials are <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/06/new-york-schools-dei-trump/">refusing to part</a> with DEI, and the district’s <a href="https://www.studentpathways.nyc/">Office of Student Pathways</a>, which infamously sent a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=office+of+student+pathways+nyc+jews&amp;sca_esv=ccb8066356fd07b7&amp;sxsrf=AE3TifOxZmNlWkSUmgiFYTMS0tj3sFta0A%3A1750776477842&amp;ei=nbpaaLyZM5yOur8PsPTkyQk&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj826vQpoqOAxUch-4BHTA6OZkQ4dUDCBA&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=office+of+student+pathways+nyc+jews&amp;gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiI29mZmljZSBvZiBzdHVkZW50IHBhdGh3YXlzIG55YyBqZXdzSOgIUJwDWJcIcAF4AJABAJgBnwGgAc4DqgEDNC4xuAEDyAEA-AEBmAIEoALRAsICChAAGLADGNYEGEfCAgsQABiABBiRAhiKBcICBhAAGBYYHsICCBAAGIAEGKIEwgIIEAAYogQYiQXCAgUQIRigAZgDAIgGAZAGCJIHAzMuMaAH_Q-yBwMyLjG4B88CwgcDMi4yyAcD&amp;sclient=gws-wiz-serp#:~:text=NYC%20public%20schools,news%20%E2%80%BA%20nyc%2Dpubli...">newsletter</a> decrying the “genocide” in Gaza back in April, often uses DEI rhetoric. 
These ideas cannot form the foundation of an effective &#8220;anti-antisemitism&#8221; plan. Institutions that hate Jews cannot teach people not to hate Jews.
The bigger problem? Even if the DEI apparatus were willing to give Jews a fair shake, this approach still wouldn’t be successful. Evidence <a href="https://aristotlefoundation.org/reality-check/what-dei-research-concludes-about-diversity-training-it-is-divisive-counter-productive-and-unnecessary/">suggests</a> that DEI training fails to stop bigotry or intolerance. Instead, “when people attempt to suppress unwanted thoughts, these thoughts are likely to subsequently reappear with even greater insistence than if they had never been suppressed.” In other words, if applied here, DEI won’t serve to educate antisemitism away — it could make the problem even worse.
Unfortunately, the problem exists regardless of the quality of the educational materials. Research <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/kisida-bowen-can-we-educate-hate-away-new-study-of-students-holocaust-education-shows-its-possible-but-only-if-conditions-are-right/">indicates</a> that even when students have access to high-quality educational materials — like first-person accounts of the Holocaust — they don’t always become more tolerant of other people and cultures. In an <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MFDZAWYKHJGI8EWQPY4N/full?target=10.1080/19345747.2019.1652712">experiment</a> involving the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Houston, some students left slightly less tolerant than when they came in.
If New York City continues on its current path, it may create the very thing it aims to destroy. Fighting antisemitism will require more than teaching children about Jews. It will require a school culture that shows zero tolerance for hatred based on religion, ethnicity, or any other immutable category — that means vigorous policing of social media apps within schools and effective discipline for students who engage in antisemitic activity.
What it should not include is DEI. Identity politics cannot and will not end the antisemitic wave in New York’s schools and streets.
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Garion Frankel is a native of the New York metropolitan area and a Ph.D student in PK-12 educational leadership at Texas A&amp;M University. He is a Young Voices Middle East History and Peace Fellow, and his articles can be found in outlets like Newsweek, USA Today, and the Houston Chronicle.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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<h2>Tragedy In Texas</h2>
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Topline: Catastrophic flooding has killed at least 82 people in Central Texas, including 28 children. Officials describe the situation as a once-in-a-century event.
Dozens are still missing in Central Texas after flash floods caused the Guadalupe River to surge early in the morning on Independence Day – an especially popular time for camping. In many cases, people didn’t realize the danger until the water had already reached their beds. Kerr County, west of Austin, was the hardest area hit – where the river rose 26 feet in just 45 minutes.
The episode that has garnered the most national attention is the Camp Mystic case– a Christian, all-girls camp in Kerr County. Every year, hundreds of girls visit to camp by the river and participate in a spiritual retreat. The flood caught the camp by surprise, and dozens of campers and counselors were killed, and at least 11 girls are still missing.
Hundreds of volunteers have turned out in each of the affected counties and are helping officials comb through the debris and mud for any sign of missing persons. Due to the flood damage to roads, helicopters have become indispensable. 
“There&#8217;s about half a dozen helicopters with all volunteers,” Gary Heavin, a pilot with the disaster response charity organization Operation Helo, told The Daily Wire. “We&#8217;re flying National Guard out… fire department, all sorts of emergency rescue people.. They trudge along in the debris because a lot of times the bodies will be caught in the debris… hopefully, we also get to find people that are alive and bring them back.”
 Heavin said they’ve also gotten some outside help from the federal government and Elon Musk. Musk sent Starlink devices to the impacted areas for use by first responders. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been on the ground to provide assistance wherever it&#8217;s needed. President Donald Trump also signed a disaster declaration on Sunday, making additional resources available for emergency response.
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<h2>Inside The Big Bill</h2>
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Topline: After months of heated debate, President Trump’s so-called &#8220;Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; is now the law of the land.
President Trump’s July 4 deadline for passing his &#8220;Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; looked implausible at the end of last week, because House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had promised members they would have 72 hours to review the changes made by the Senate – but when it became clear that timeline would push the vote past Trump&#8217;s deadline, he changed course and started the vote on July 3, when it passed 218 to 214. 
That allowed President Trump to sign his signature legislation from the White House lawn on Independence Day, complete with a band blasting patriotic tunes and a flyover from B-2 bombers — an apparent nod to last month’s strikes on Iran. President Trump has made it clear that he views this bill as a means of codifying many of his campaign promises and delivering to the American people what they voted for in November. 
“We delivered no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on social security for our great seniors,” Trump said, claiming that the newly signed legislation is “the biggest bill of its kind ever done by far…It makes the child tax credit permanent for 40 million American families.”
Among other things, the &#8220;Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; allows taxpayers to write off interest payments on car loans, and it establishes new “Trump accounts” for babies born between 2025 and 28 — those will include a one-time $1000 federal contribution to an investment fund on the child’s behalf. From there, families can contribute up to $ 5,000 annually, and the funds can be withdrawn once the individual is 18. 
The bill will put $46 billion towards the construction of the border wall, and tens of billions more towards deportation efforts. 
In order to offset the massive tax cuts, the bill includes around a trillion dollars in reductions to entitlements like Medicaid over the next decade, and will add work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid applicants aged 18-64 – going forward, people in that cohort will have to work at least 80 hours a month to qualify, or prove that they’re actively looking for work, and once they’ve enrolled they’ll have to prove they still qualify for benefits every six months.
Democrats say this will force millions of Americans off of Medicaid and cut funding to hospitals nationwide. 
On the other side, Republicans say Medicaid has become bloated in recent years with folks who are taking advantage of the system. They note that Medicaid enrollment increased significantly during the COVID pandemic, when continuous enrollment was implemented. Eight million people were added to the program in the last four years alone, while disenrollments were put on pause. 
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<h2>The Mamdani Effect</h2>
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Topline: New York City elites are panicking about the prospect of Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor and enacting his socialist policies.
A few weeks after his upset victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, critics of outspoken socialist Zohran Mamdani – from high-ranking Democrats and finance and tech figures to bodega owners and cops – are sounding the alarm about what his policies might do to America’s largest city. During the campaign, Mamdani focused on the high cost of living in New York City and proposed several schemes to bring it down, including, among other things, government-run grocery stores and rent control. Mamdani has also pledged to raise taxes on wealthier and “whiter” neighborhoods to fund his reforms, and has stated that he “[doesn’t] think billionaires should exist.”
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is throwing his full endorsement and financial weight behind current Mayor Eric Adams. Ackman called Mamdani a socialist/communist and said his policies would be “catastrophic for NYC.” Previously, Ackman was considering funding a new challenger just to beat Mamdani and said he was ready to spend “hundreds of millions of dollars” backing a challenger.
The tech elite are also panicking. On election night for the primary, New York-based venture capitalists and crypto exchange founders melted down on X, posting messages like, “New York City on the brink of becoming Gotham City.”
The president of the Police Benevolent Association, Patrick Hendry, called Mamdani “anti-cop” and said he has an “extremist attitude and it’s going to scare other cops and they will go out the door.” In 2020, Mamdani was a vocal supporter of <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1324520792231714816">defunding the police</a>. The NYPD is already having trouble recruiting and retaining officers — more than 1500 cops have quit this year — and with Mamdani’s anti-police stances, union officials are warning that his election would only make it harder to keep cops on the streets.
NYC bodega owners have also expressed concerns that Mamdani’s proposal for government-run grocery stores will put them out of business. 
“Most bodega owners are immigrants,” Fernando Mateo, spokesperson for the United Bodegas of America, said. “They come here to try to make a living and do the right thing by the city… if you’re able to infiltrate government into the private sector, you’re basically ruining the dreams and the spirits of all these small businesspeople who have risked everything they have, borrowed everything they could borrow to open their small business.”

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