In November this year, New Yorkers will vote for the next mayor. Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party candidate, State Assembly Member from Astoria, Queens, is a socialist, supporter of Hamas and a fierce critic of the police.
He proposes to open urban grocery stores under the aegis of City Hall, cut the police department budget by billions of dollars. Mamdani speaks out against capitalism and speaks openly about the need to strip production from exploiting capitalists. To pay for free bus rides, free higher education in city colleges, and free creches for all children, Mamdani wants to raise taxes on corporations and affirm more sustainable New Yorkers. And with billions cut for the needs of the Police Department, he intends to send to hire thousands of new social workers – ignoring the safety of citizens and encouraging crime.
Zohran Mamdani supports the slogan of Intifada globalization and condemns Israel for retaliating against Hamas following the horrific terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023. He promised to arrest Israel’s legally elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he flies to New York and hand over the Israeli leader to the International Tribunal at The Hague.
Of course, it is necessary to explain to people the need to vote. Very low turnout of senior citizens on a very hot day in the last primary elections contributed to Mamdani’s victory.
The recent elections in New York put us in front of the fact that a mayoral candidate has emerged offering populist slogans and ideas that scare people, especially those who came from the former USSR.
«We have to stop Mamdani, » former City Council deputy Ari Kagan said in an interview with the New York Post.
«After the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, Bolsheviks seized factories and factories with force, threw them behind bars or physically eliminated business owners, took away private land and large food stalls, destroyed freedom of religion, speech and thought.» Millions of people have become victims of repression, hunger and fear.
It was from such a life that many of us – Jews, Ukrainians, Georgians, Russians and others – fled to America in the hope of freedom, safety and a decent life, ” stressed former Republican City Council member Ari Kagan.
“I could never imagine that in the heart of New York City – a city of freedom, entrepreneurship and immigrant fate – someone would earnestly promote ideas that resembled a failed and terrible model of totalitarian communist government. «We must remember the lessons of history and prevent our city from being plunged into a dangerous experiment with ideologies from which we have once escaped.»
Most New Yorkers feel negative about Mamdani’s Marxist and anti-Israel views, according to the latest public opinion polls. Will they go out to vote in the mayoral elections on November 4 or stay at home again?
Marina Lagunova
Photo New York Post