Incoming New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, just quietly and almost invisibly crossed a line that has never before been crossed in American politics: he defined a group of American civilians as “war criminals.” This time, the Mayor-elect targeted Jewish New Yorkers: their “war crime” was attending a talk at Manhattan’s Park East synagogue to discuss (not surprisingly) the possibility of leaving. Yet now that a line has been crossed with no apparent consequences, no religion or minority group will be safe.p
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