Only in Israel...The Mirage Who Is Zohran Mamdani...Pathetic Montreal...

A siren goes off in Tel Aviv. Incoming Iranian ballistic missiles. The warning ends.

A man who was in a meeting in a Tel Aviv office building, returns to his motorcycle which was parked in the underground parking. There is an elderly woman sitting on his motorcycle.

He looks at her and asks with a smile, “Are you comfortable on my motorcycle?”

She replies: “I had no choice. There was a siren. I was outside. I came into the parking lot which was the nearest shelter. I am 94-years-old and can’t sit on the floor.”

And that’s that…Only in Israel.

And then there’s North America, tripping over its own ‘values’ while lecturing the rest of the world on morals. Maybe with Trump back in the picture things will shift south of the border. But here in Canada? It’s a lawless free-for-all unless you physically touch someone. Short of assault, it’s all waved off as free speech.

So what happens when you deface a university? Answer: absolutely nothing. Which is why it happens again. And again. And again.

The image with this story? That would be the historic Rodick Gates at McGill University — spray-painted like some back alley wall in a low cost housing development.

Where are the police? Where is the university leadership? Hiding under their desks hoping it all goes away? Or quietly cheering from behind the curtain?

Montreal and Toronto both have female mayors. Maybe that’s the problem — too much posturing, not enough policing.

Antisemitism has become the cause du jour for the lost, the bored, and the self-righteous — today’s quick-fix crusade to show that you are actually doing something with your life.

But when that means blocking city streets, vandalizing institutions, and openly harassing Jews in broad daylight… do the authorities really just get to shrug? It appears so.

Here's a headline: Turning a blind eye isn’t neutrality. It’s complicity.

This is a longish piece/ analysis but a very important read. We no longer have the luxury of living in a bubble pretending the world is just humming along. It's not. And what happened in NYC in the past couple of days is proof of that.

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The unbelievable just happened in the heart of a liberal, 'tolerant', sanctuary city. A man by the name of Zohan Mamdani, who has openly expressed Jew-hatred, a full-blown communist in ideology and rhetoric just won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City.

This is a chilling foreshadowing of what might unfold in other so-called progressive cities where lawlessness is tolerated in the form of protests, antisemitism is excused as “criticism,” and radical ideologies are sold to the public gift-wrapped in words like “equity” and “justice.”

Unless something dramatic happens between now and November, this isn’t just a possibility. It’s a probability.

And here's the big question: What kind of city, what kind of people, look at someone spewing anti-Jewish hatred and say, “Yes, that’s who we want running our city”?

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At the moment, Mamdani is running against Eric Adams for mayor of New York and Curtis Sliwa (he founded the Guardian Angels) who is running as an independent. If Mamdani is elected, you can kiss that city goodbye for a very long time.

Who is this person and why are people losing their minds?

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Zohran Mamdani is a muslim born in Kampala, Uganda. He moved to New York with his family at the age seven, attended the Bronx High School of Science and later earned a degree in Africana Studies from Bowdoin College, where he co-founded the campus chapter of students for justice in palestine. Way before October 7.

He is a true communist. Period. Here's part of his platform:

Free bus service citywide

Rent freezes and stricter accountability for negligent landlords

A chain of city-owned grocery stores focused on affordability

Universal childcare for children aged six weeks to five years

Tripling the production of rent-stabilized, union-built housing

Who pays for all of this? The rich people. And where are those people? For the moment, living in New York. But if he gets in - and there is a very high probability that he will - you will see a mass exodus that will make the covid moving trucks look like a warm up act for this one.

As we who live in a socialist society know only too well, when governments run anything, it doesn't work and they blame everyone but their own bloated bureaucracy for their failures..

In socialist-style systems, there’s one secret ingredient to getting anything done: you have to know the right people. We will leave it at that. Those who know, know

In our case medicare is free but let's be honest - nothing is really free. Everything comes at a cost.

Here, as in most socialist places, the only way to navigate the medical system is by knowing the right people. Ask the people who don’t know the right people how long they wait for a hip replacement. Two years. Three. Sometimes four. Long enough to forget which hip hurts.

Promising utopia always starts the same way: good slogans, great videos and someone else's money.

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Mamdani is married to Rama Duwaji. This is what we found on her Instagram page: Release Mahmoud Kalil.

Do you know who he is? He is the syrian born 'student activist' at Columbia University and lead negotiator in pro-Palestinian protests and campus occupations during the Gaza war,

He was finally picked up by immigration and detained only to be released a few days ago. This is what he wrote:

"Your messages have kept me going. Still the fight is far from over, the genocide is still happening in Gaza, Israel is still waging a full war against Palestine. The U.S. government is funding this genocide, and Columbia University is investing in this genocide. This is why I was protesting, this is why I will continue protesting with every one of you, not only if they threaten me with detention. Even if they would kill me, I would still speak up for Gaza."

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Who elected Mamdani? People in Brooklyn. No, not the Jews. They are now a minority in Brooklyn even though they have the highest population of Jews in one place outside of Israel.

Nope. It was affluent, highly educated white voters in Brooklyn and Queens that gave him the win.

Mamdani mastered the social media game: videos in five languages, snappy edits, catchy slogans, and the uncanny ability to sound 'progressive' without ever explaining how anything would actually work.

He pulled in Chinese voters in Flushing and parts of Brooklyn. How? Targeted content. Relatable messaging. Local lingo. You name it. Whoever’s running his data and digital campaign is a genius.

He locked in the Hispanic vote by using over 2,000 Spanish-speaking volunteers going door-to-door. That’s a full-blown ground operation.

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Let’s talk about Zohran Mamdani himself. A gifted orator. Charismatic. Polished. Disarming. He’s not just a politician—he’s a mirage.

He stood before white affluent progressives, immigrant voters, and disillusioned youth and painted them a utopia: a glittering, equal, free paradise where everyone eats, no one pays, and somehow the “system” magically stops being the system.

Tired of pogroms and open antisemitism, Jews who fled Odessa in the early 1900s were fooled the same way when they were told that in America the streets were paved with gold. That you’d live like a king even if you came with nothing. Upon landing at Ellis Island, they found out very quickly that such was not the case.

Mamdani is selling that same fantasy now, just rebranded for the social media age. And like every smooth-talking ideologue before him, he’s peddling the oldest lie in the socialist playbook: "You will have everything, even if you contribute nothing."

Anyone who’s read even the smallest shred of history knows how this movie ends.

Communist regimes don’t create paradise. They create poverty.

Did it ever occur to anyone that there's a reason people risked their lives to escape those countries. They weren’t fleeing capitalism.

They were fleeing exactly what Mamdani is now repackaging as hope.

And now it’s coming to New York City. Unbelievable. But here we are.

UPDATE...

Bill Ackman, the very Jewish founder and chief executive of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, wrote a lengthy post on X to express his alarm at Mamdani’s victory.

“I awoke this morning gravely concerned about New York City, I thought ‘What has NYC become that an avowed socialist who has supported defunding the police, whose solution to lowering food prices is city-owned supermarkets, who doesn’t understand that freezing rents will only make apartments scarcer and more expensive in the long run.'”

Ackerman, who is a billionaire investor, compared a potential Mamdani-led New York to “another failed major city run by Democrats alongside Seattle, Chicago, LA, and SF."

Finally someone with a brain has stepped up to the plate. Of course he's a Jew. Nobody else has a) the brains and b) the money to block mamdani. And he's putting his money where his mouth is.

As such, he is offering hundreds of million of dollars to back a competitor to Mamdani. He said a campaign can be put together overnight adding that he is “in the text strings and the WhatsApp groups” organizing the effort.

Maybe there's hope for New York city after all.

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