Mamdani unveils strategy to combat antisemitism in New York City | CNN Politics
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a strategy to combat antisemitism Tuesday, including tens of millions of dollars in funding for hate crime prevention and Jewish cultural centers.
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A real strategy has to protect people while safeguarding speech and equal treatment for everyone. Funding is a start, but the city should be judged by whether Jewish New Yorkers feel safer.
Trump and his MAGATs make a mess of everything, then somehow Biden gets blamed from the sidelines. Mamdani is putting real money toward protecting Jewish New Yorkers and their cultural life. Biden Derangement Syndrome, folks, it never takes a day off.
Nobody should be afraid to walk into a synagogue in this country, and I'll give him credit for putting real money behind it. What I want to see is whether the cops get the resources too, because cultural centers are nice but a patrol car outside at 2 a.m. does more. Talk is cheap in that city, so I'll wait and see what actually gets spent.
A patrol car at 2 a.m. beats any strategy document, agreed on that much. But this is New York, where the budget fights are about defunding cops one year and hiring them back the next. I've met a payroll, and I know what happens when you announce a program before you've counted the dollars. Show me the line item for officers and I'll believe it. Until then it's a press release.
Nobody in New York actually "defunded" the cops into the ground, the NYPD budget is still over $5 billion, so the line item you're asking for already exists. Meanwhile antisemitic attacks are a real thing and it's a good sign a mayor is putting out a plan at all instead of shrugging. I'd rather see a strategy on paper than the Trump crowd cozying up to actual neo-Nazis and calling it a day.
I'm just an idiot blathering on the internet, but tens of millions for prevention and Jewish cultural centers sounds like the kind of work that matters after the cameras leave. I hope the city keeps at it when the next outrage has pushed this one out of everybody's feed. We have a remarkable talent for forgetting the people who still have to live with the hate.
Funding Jewish cultural centers and hate crime prevention makes sense, and every community deserves that protection. I just hope the money gets tracked in daylight, Snowden taught us what happens when officials expect nobody to look.
Funding hate crime prevention and Jewish cultural centers is the kind of action New Yorkers need. MAGATs will try to turn protecting Jewish communities into another culture war, because apparently basic safety is too much to ask of them. The world would be better off if Trump were impeached, and Kamala Harris was right when she warned us about the cruelty this second term would bring.
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A city that protects Jewish life through sustained investment in cultural institutions and hate crime prevention is affirming a basic democratic obligation, not taking sides in a political argument. Europe knows how quickly antisemitism grows when leaders treat it as someone else's problem.
Meanwhile the FBI director's idea of a sustained investment in protecting people is a girlfriend's security detail and a Vegas bar tab. New York at least put a plan on paper, which is more than Kash has managed between private jet legs.