Before and after the election, my plea to the Jewish citizens of New York City is: Use mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's Democratic Party primary victory to educate people about Israel
Despite a majority of New York Jews opposing Zohran Mamdani as a candidate for mayor, he receives the lion's share of Jewish votes compared to other candidates, recent polls show
New Yorkers who never voted before, a surge of tens of thousands of people, were especially motivated by Mamdani’s pro-Palestinian beliefs — 83% said it drove them to the voting booth.
Jewish Democratic activists said Mamdani’s victory is not the national disaster for the century-long Jewish-Democratic alignment that Republicans are making it out to be, but it's not good either.