The U.S. Report | 2 October

But first, New York City's pro-Palestine socialist mayor, Zoran Mamdani, this week unveiled his grand plan to crack down on anti-Semitism.

And understandably, it hasn't gone down so well.

First point to make is how he launched it in a slick two minute video.

No press conference, meaning no tough questions.

I'm proud to announce the nation's first ever municipal strategy to combat anti-Semitism.

We are increasing hate crime prevention funding by 26 million dollars or more than 800 percent from last year.

Mamdani says he's been listening to Jewish New Yorkers, which is kind of hard to avoid since they make up 10% of his city, home to the biggest population of Jews outside Israel.

Over the last year, I've met with Jewish New Yorkers across the five boroughs.

I've met with them in their dining rooms, sat with them on the subway, and spoke to them in their shuls.

Time and again, I've heard the same thing.

Antisemitism is real, and it is growing.

You really needed them to tell you that? Mamdani only had to look closer to home to find out what's behind this blatantly obvious uptick in hatred.

And I mean literally, his own home.

His wife Rama Dewaji was exposed earlier this year as having liked more than 70 social media posts.

expressing extreme anti-Israel positions, including one referring to the now well-documented sexual violence on October 7 as a mass rape hoax.

Charming woman.

Sounds like she'd get along real well with our own Grace Tame.

But the problem with Mamdani's so-called anti-Semitism plan is what it doesn't include.

The first glaring omission is it fails to even mention the kind of anti-Zionism Mamdani and his wife are so well versed in.

An anti-Zionism that has become the modern day cloak for the oldest hatred in the world.

and refusing to confront the scourge of extreme anti-Zionist protesters spreading bile across his city, like here outside the United Nations last week, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking.

Well, that'll do nothing to address the Jew hatred infecting Mamdani's Manhattan.

Like here in Australia, where a climate of vile anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric helped lead to the deadliest terror attack in our history at Bondi last Hanukkah, you simply cannot tackle Jew hatred without tackling the demonization of the only Jewish state.

In my view, Mamdani himself has directly helped fuel that, in recent weeks especially, by continuing to attack Netanyahu and spurring on the recent demonstrations against him.

This is from back in July.

But first, New York City's pro-Palestine socialist mayor, Zoran Mamdani, this week unveiled his grand plan to crack down on anti-Semitism.

And understandably, it hasn't gone down so well.

First point to make is how he launched it in a slick two minute video.

No press conference, meaning no tough questions.

I'm proud to announce the nation's first ever municipal strategy to combat anti-Semitism.

We are increasing hate crime prevention funding by 26 million dollars or more than 800 percent from last year.

Mamdani says he's been listening to Jewish New Yorkers, which is kind of hard to avoid since they make up 10% of his city, home to the biggest population of Jews outside Israel.

Over the last year, I've met with Jewish New Yorkers across the five boroughs.

I've met with them in their dining rooms, sat with them on the subway, and spoke to them in their shuls.

Time and again, I've heard the same thing.

Antisemitism is real, and it is growing.

You really needed them to tell you that? Mamdani only had to look closer to home to find out what's behind this blatantly obvious uptick in hatred.

And I mean literally, his own home.

His wife Rama Dewaji was exposed earlier this year as having liked more than 70 social media posts.

expressing extreme anti-Israel positions, including one referring to the now well-documented sexual violence on October 7 as a mass rape hoax.

Charming woman.

Sounds like she'd get along real well with our own Grace Tame.

But the problem with Mamdani's so-called anti-Semitism plan is what it doesn't include.

The first glaring omission is it fails to even mention the kind of anti-Zionism Mamdani and his wife are so well versed in.

An anti-Zionism that has become the modern day cloak for the oldest hatred in the world.

and refusing to confront the scourge of extreme anti-Zionist protesters spreading bile across his city, like here outside the United Nations last week, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking.

Well, that'll do nothing to address the Jew hatred infecting Mamdani's Manhattan.

Like here in Australia, where a climate of vile anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric helped lead to the deadliest terror attack in our history at Bondi last Hanukkah, you simply cannot tackle Jew hatred without tackling the demonization of the only Jewish state.

In my view, Mamdani himself has directly helped fuel that, in recent weeks especially, by continuing to attack Netanyahu and spurring on the recent demonstrations against him.

This is from back in July.