To wish we had someone like Mamdani in UK politics?

Actually, he is a proud Muslim man. He released a video about a week ago about his identity as a Muslim and the awful Islamophobia he has endured during his campaign.

Zach Goldsmith and Zach Polanski are two very different people being confused on this thread.

Are you forgetting his mayoral campaign and the way he exploited racial tensions when attacking Khan personally?

He shows his true colours then.

Actually he is half Hindu and half Muslim.
His mum, Mira Nair, is a well known and Oscar nominated film maker for Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay

A lot of American Jewish people.

Mamdani has never spoken negatively about Jewish people. On the contrary, he consistently calls antisemitism a serious problem and has released extensive policy proposals to protect Jewish New Yorkers. His platform includes increasing funding to prevent hate crimes and appointing a senior adviser in City Hall to tackle antisemitism.

He has specifically condemned the killing of Israeli civilians, including on October 7, and has consistently advocated for nonviolent political resistance. A couple of weeks ago, he attended a vigil for Israeli and Palestinian victims and condemned Hamas’s violations of international law.

People can't handle the fact that he is Muslim, they equate Muslim with terrosism support and nothing he does or says will change that for some.

The poll found that 43% of Jewish voters in the US city said they would vote for Mamdani, including 67% of Jewish voters aged 18 to 44. Cuomo trailed with 26% of Jewish voters, followed by Mayor Eric Adams with 15%.

Here you go Sharon

https://www.timesofisrael.com/mamdani-holds-wide-edge-among-jewish-voters-in-new-nyc-mayoral-race-poll/

I am still not understanding what have the awful attacks in Manchester got to do with Mamdani?
Just because he is pro-pal doesn’t mean he has anything to do with a movement that wants to kill Jews?!

I thought insulting big chunks of an electorate was generally agreed to be counterproductive?

This article seems to be as short on facts as it is long on calling people names.

He s a nasty piece of work... can t bring himself to condemn the torturers of Hamas who burnt kids to death ( before any retaliation by Israel). I saw the clip of him outside a mosque faking emotion ( lots of theatrical pauses and swallowing) ' in the memory of his aunt'. He went on to say how 9 11 affected this aunt ( whose existence some have doubted) as she was worried about wearing her hijab on the New York subway, Not a word about the 3000 New Yorkers who were killed by Islamists that day ... in his own city!
He will sow division, he s a taker of sides not a bridge builder

I wonder if you are aware that even American Jewish people have voted for him? *shock horror

Why does Mamdani have to be 'pro-Israel'? He isn't running to be mayor in Israel is he?

So many haters as usual on these sort of threads. I think Mamdani is great and on course for winning!

Because he wants to represent the largest number of Jews outside Israel so a movement that wants to kill Jews is pretty relevant.

I said the relevance to Mamdani….

Yes. I also read the sentence where you said you didn't understand tbe relevance of attacks on Jews in Manchester, which was an antisemitic attack holding Jews responsible for Israeli actions.

I know what it means did you not read the sentence where I said I don’t think it should be used?

Adam Lehrer, writer for Tablet Magazine, seems to have go the measure of him.

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Forget, for a moment, Mamdani's absurd and self-canceling politics-a tangle of Third Worldist pseudo-communism, performative radicalism, and the sort of NGO-scented global liberalism that flatters itself as rebellion-and just look at him as a man. As a personality. And ask yourself, sincerely: What is it they see in him?

To understand why he's winning—and why he'll keep winning— you have to understand this creature of thwarted ambition, whose politics are not born of conviction but of resentment, who has mistaken vengeance for virtue and failure for depth.

Despite the apparent diversity of Zohran's supporters, it was clear who truly dominated the crowd: the young. No doubt, the overeducated, underemployed left-wing 20-and 30-something have set the foundation for Zohran's messaging and campaign aesthetics, and it's their sensibilities that are most taken into consideration.

Zohran is a human algorithm trained on the gestures and cadences of the constituencies he hopes to seduce.

Today's young activists don't really want to change the world. They want to find themselves, or at least a version of themselves that photographs well. Political dissent has become an another lifestyle trend, ripe for monetization. Radical
symbols-the raised fist, the pride flag-are stripped of context, rebranded as empowerment kits, and sold back to their original owners.

While many Jews are alarmed by Zohran's flirtations with Islamist rhetoric, the truth is far duller-and somehow more sinister. He's not so much a Hamas ideologue as he is a bland liberal opportunist masquerading as a
revolutionary. His politics are a chaotic slurry of leftist identity jargon, boutique communism, NGO globalism, and shallow religious signaling.

We stand on the threshold of a new era, one in which the world's largest, most intricate city will be governed by people who possess no convictions, no principles, nothing but the day's trending slogan and the algorithmic confidence of the perpetually online.

What do you think globalise the intifada means?

No hatred? What have you been reading? He has been quite vitriolic about Israel. And, btw, he can’t finance his policies and they have to be agreed by the State Legislature. He will be a disaster.

In the primaries 67% of Jewish people under the age of 44 voted for Mamdani, he got 43% of the Jewish vote overall. Jews do count and lots are voting for a progressive candidate who wants every New Yorker to have access to a basic standard of living over a sex pest.

He's awful. Without going into his politics, he just feels extremely fake to me.

Yes I am quite aware of the terrible attacks in Manchester, not that I understand what it has to do with a mayoral candidate from NYC?

I think the problem with the phrase is that some see it as anti-semitic and some don’t - I don’t think it should be used, I think another less charged phrase could be used.

I believed him to have said that he wouldn’t stop the freedom of speech, as some people believe it to mean non-violent solidarity with Palestinians, but said that he would not use it himself.

IMO Trump and Netenyahu/Israeli government have said and done worse.

I do truly believe a lot of hate for Mamdani because of his race and religion

I know absolutely nothing about him other than his election would seriously piss Trump off. That’ll do for me.

New York Jews seem very happy with him