Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary triggered a wave of Islamophobic attacks -- including from sitting members of Congress -- that once might have disqualified the perpetrators from public office.
A few months ago, Trumpists were bragging about the multiracial coalition that got them a second term, Jonathan Chait writes. Now, with their Islamophobic attacks on Zohran Mamdani, "it's as if they've forgotten that coalition entirely":
-- The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com) Jun 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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The nomination of NY Rep
@#126 ... In America we live under the Constitution, not the Bible. You incorporate Biblical values into your own life out of choice. ...
So why does the GOP appear to want to impose those values upon all?
Should the Ten Commandments be display in Texas classrooms?
If so, why?
Apparently the choice your comment states does not hold in Texas.
Yeah, but then I saw this ... NY Rep Mamdani to the NYC mayor elections seems to have caused some concern.
But why?
Looking at this, he won the Brooklyn borough of NYC, hands down.
OK, take a look at this ...
History of the Jews in New York City
en.wikipedia.org
... Jews comprise approximately 12% of New York City's population, making the Jewish community the largest in the world outside of Israel. As of 2020, over 960,000 Jews lived in the five boroughs of New York City,[1] and over 1.9 million Jews lived in the New York metropolitan area, approximately 25% of the American Jewish population.[2]
Nearly half of the city's Jews live in Brooklyn.[3][4] ...
And this ...
Brooklyn, the Most Jewish Spot on Earth (2018)
www.hadassahmagazine.org
... By any measure, Brooklyn is the most Jewish place in America. Approximately 600,000 Jews now call the borough home, down from an incredible 900,000 in the 1940s. One in four Brooklyn residents is Jewish, the largest proportion by far among New York City's five boroughs, according to the most recent survey by the UJA-Federation of New York.
"There are more Jews right now in Brooklyn than anywhere else in the world, including the city of Tel Aviv," said Ron Schweiger, the borough's official historian, whose Flatlands home is a shrine to the long-vanished Brooklyn Dodgers (the team moved to Los Angeles in 1957). ...
Yet Brooklyn voted for Mamdani in the primary.
@#6 ... Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That! ...
Yup. Apparently so, as this primary shows.
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