Israeli politicians sound alarm over Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral win - Keshet Neev

 

by Keshet Neev

“New York’s Jewish community deserves leaders who protect them, not target them,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel told The Jerusalem Post.

 

A special plenary session marking 30 years since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem, November 3, 2025.

(photo credit: OREN BEN HAKOON/FLASH90)

 

Israeli politicians on Wednesday expressed concern about Zohran Mamdani's win in the New York City mayoral election. 

Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel told The Jerusalem Post that Mamdani’s election “is deeply concerning given his history of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish rhetoric.”

“New York’s Jewish community deserves leaders who protect them, not target them.”

“Israel stands with our brothers and sisters in New York and will continue working with community leaders to ensure their safety and dignity,” she added.

Yisrael Beytenu chairperson Avigdor Liberman responded that “the big apple has fallen.”

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks at the National Security Committee, November 3, 2025 (credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)

“A man who supported Hamas, attacked Israel, and blamed the West for all the world’s troubles has been elected mayor of New York City,’ Liberman stated. 

'New York has chosen as its mayor a racist, populist, and openly Shiite Islamist'

“Just three decades after the 9/11 attacks, New York has chosen as its mayor a racist, populist, and openly Shiite Islamist. Mamdani is the poster boy of the ‘silent jihad.’”

Liberman called the election “a resounding wake-up call to the Jews of New York who wish to live to immigrate to the place where they belong: the Land of Israel. That is their home.”

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said Mamdani's election "will be remembered forever in infamy as how antisemitism triumphed over common sense."

MK Ohad Tal (Religious Zionist Party), who chairs the Knesset Israel-US Relations Caucus, said that “this morning brought the news that New York City has chosen an Islamist, antisemitic, and communist leader.”

“The progressive woke forces have won,” he added.

"The Jews of America will know that the State of Israel always stands by them and that its gates are open to them," he said.

Keshet Neev

Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-872797

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