By Issues & Insights Editorial Board | January 09, 2026
Zohran Mamdani has been New York City’s mayor for hardly a week, and his term is already a stew of antisemitism, pro-terrorism, Marxism and discrimination. Voters made a horrifying mistake they can’t correct themselves. But they can band together in a fully justified effort to drive him from office in line with state law.
Before Mamdani was elected in November, it was obvious that he was the last person who should hold the job. It was widely know that he wanted to seize the means of production, that his clearly implied wish as an Islamist is to globalize the intifada against the Jews, that defunding the police is close to his heart.
Once in office, Mamdani’s agenda turned even darker. No act was more belligerent, more spiteful than his appointment of Cea Weaver to be director of the city’s chief of “housing justice.”
Weaver, like Mamdani, is member of the Democratic Socialists of America. And like any devoted Marxist, this woman has claimed that “for centuries we have treated property as an individualized good and not as a collective good.” She believes homeownership to be a “weapon of white supremacy” and wants the government to “seize private property” to treat housing as “a collective good”
“It will mean that families, especially white families, but some” people-of-color “families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship with property than the one we currently have.”
Weaver’s radicalism is a straight line to her statement that “we can say, hey, um – you know – you are not maintaining this building, and we are the city of New York. We have an interest in making sure that housing is well maintained, and … and we’re gonna take this building away from you.”
Naturally she has a “Free Palestine” poster in the window of her Brooklyn home, wants to “impoverish the white middle class,” which apparently has committed genocide when only the smart set was looking and the rest of us were gazing elsewhere; and would be delighted for voters to “elect more Communists.”
Weaver is also a self-hating white who despises her own race, especially the males of her despised ethnicity, an umistakable sign of a deep mental defect.
By the way, Weaver’s mother owns a $1.6 million home in Tennessee. What is going to be her relationship with that house going forward? Isn’t it time she gave it to neighbors who aren’t white like her in accordance to her daughter’s ideology?
Did Mamdani, the physically grown but callow theater kid, try to temper or clear up her comments? No, he stood by his woman. He isn’t in position to lose too many more aides over lunatic views anyway. His director of appointments, Catherine Almonte Da Costa, resigned a week before Christmas after anti-Jewish comments she had on social media had been made public. She was on the job for just one day.
Yes, that Zo, he sure knows how to choose his aides – including a trio of “prep school socialists” who will hold senior press roles.
At his inauguration, Mamdani – of course – promised to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” which requires coercion to take from some to give to others. His word choice was no “slip of the tongue or a vague moral appeal to kindness,” says Ryan Bourne of the Cato Institute. “Collectivism” “is a loaded ideological term with a long, well-documented pedigree and an even longer rap sheet” – it is the promise of force.
Upon taking office, the failed rapper who said he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he came to New York City, rescinded all of former Mayor Eric Adams’ executive orders that had been issued since his indicted in September 2024. The Cleveland Jewish News reports that “several” of the orders were “designed to protect the Jewish community.”
William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, called it “a troubling indicator of the direction in which he is leading the city, just one day at the helm.”
Adams pointed out that Mamdani “promised a new era and unity today,” but the unambiguous antisemitism of his executive orders rescission “isn’t new. And it isn’t unity.”
Did New Yorkers vote to turn City Hall into a nuthouse? Have Mamdani’s sleepwalking voters awakened yet? Radicals will always have their followers, but generally, though not always, they are on the fringe. Mamdani was able to broaden that fringe all the way to Gracie Mansion.
The events of the last eight days should change more than a few minds, pull some of his voters back from the edge he’s taken them to, reacquaint them with reality. If not, there is plenty more madness to come, thanks to the new mayor’s fanaticism.
New York does not provide for recall elections of mayors. Removal from office must be done from Albany, or by a “committee on inability” made up of five local officials. If enough pressure from voters is placed on the right points, the city might be eventually liberated from the 1.1 million New Yorkers who voted to make turn it into a pre-reunification East Berlin dump blistered by decay and scarcity.
It’s a longshot. Hardly likely. Yet it’s an effort that has to start somewhere, and soon.
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