Letter: Mamdani = Captain Renault

Dear editor:

Mayor Mamdani since he was at Bowdoin has embraced every Zionophobic pronouncement of the National Students for Justice in Palestine, a Jew-hating organization that has consistently celebrated the koranic butchery of 1200 Jews on 10/7. (See: “The National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) Designated October 7, 2023 as a Day of Remembrance” American Jewish Committee).

Mamdani’s proud embrace of the NSJP and its consistent celebration of the Zionophobic butchery of 10/7 leaves no doubt that Mamdani’s “outrage” at a recent Zionophobic attack on Central Synagogue in New York City is as hypocritical and mendacious as Captain Renault’s shock at finding out that there was gambling in “Casablanca.”

To paraphrase Captain Renault one can hear Mamdani with an almost straight face claiming to be shocked that Jew-hating incidents have skyrocketed in New York City since he became mayor.

Richard Sherman
Margate, Florida 
Member of the Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism