The Fire Next Time: New York Antisemitism This Time

The buzz surrounding the election of Zohran Mamdani is more than just about socialism. Investment bankers living in Central Park condos are not the only folks worried. Read what the New York Times writes about fear in the Jewish community of Gotham in the wake of his antisemitism.

Of course, the left does not have a monopoly on antisemitism, as Tucker Carlson has recently reminded us. But the two are different. The likes of Nick Fuentes see the descendants of the Hebrews as not Western.

In contrast, Mamdani’s beef with God’s Chosen People reminds me of this line from James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time:

Again, the Jewish boys in high school were troubling because I could find no point of connection between them and the Jewish pawnbrokers and landlords and grocery-store owners in Harlem. I knew that these people were Jews – God knows I was told it often enough – but I thought of them only as white.

Left-wing antisemitism is basically just treating Jews like they are an integral part of the Western World.

Eric Shierman lives in Salem and is the author of We were winning when I was there.