New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is an “enemy of America” who has displayed “pure, blatant antisemitism,” says Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz. Mamdani’s campaign was animated by an array of local economic issues, such as the lack of affordable childcare and housing. But his pro-Palestinian platform has garnered the most attention. The 34-year-old Mamdani, a far-left state lawmaker, alarmed Israelis by openly disavowing the pro-Israel stance traditionally adopted by New York’s mayoral hopefuls.
Dershowitz said he will “stand up to” Mamdani and “will take him to court” if he can. “We’ll beat him down in every legal, permissible way possible. He is tremendous damage because his election for the first time sends a message you can be an antisemite, you can be an anti-Zionist, you can be anti-American, and you can still win in a city like New York, perhaps in Minneapolis and San Francisco, in Chicago and other cities“, he said.
“President Trump got it exactly right when he said that any Jew who votes for Mamdani is an absolute fool, a self-hating fool”, he added. “But we’ve seen that Jews supported Stalin, Jews supported Pol Pot, Jews supported Castro, even some Jews supported Mussolini, and even a handful supported Hitler. Jews can be as idiotic as anybody else, and the Jews who voted for Mamdani showed their idiocy and their self-hatred“, Dershowitz said.