Thursday, June 25, 2026

New York City at the Proverbial Crossroad. Will America Follow?

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Dozens of protesters descended on a hate-mongering Brooklyn coffee shop on Wednesday morning after it publicly vowed to refuse service to a pro-Israel politician, and its owner’s social media posts comparing Israel to Nazi Germany came to light.

They chanted “End Jew hatred” and “This shall not stand” as they were confronted by a smaller group of counter-protesters — many of them rabbis from Jews United Against Zionism — who waved Palestinian flags and loudly denounced Israel through a bullhorn.

Approximately 960,000 Jewish people live in the five boroughs of New York City, making it the largest Jewish population in any city proper in the world. Across the broader metropolitan area, this number swells to nearly 1.9 million. That's about 12% of the city.

There are about 15 million Jews worldwide.

Tuesday, New York voted for the most far-left, socialist, antisemitic, and pro-Islamic candidates running for office in the city.

New York City Muslim Mayor Zohran Mamdani is howling with joy, promising this is only the beginning.

Be informed, not misled.

Yesterday, columnist Michael Goodwin wrote the following in the New York Post:

It is impossible to escape the conclusion that Mamdani won’t condemn the owner’s behavior because it aligns with his own bigotry.

Despite getting an estimated one-third of Jewish votes last year, the mayor is seemingly on a quest to normalize Jew-hatred.

He says he will not visit Israel because he doesn’t believe it should exist as the Jewish homeland.

And last month, he became the first mayor in six decades to skip the Israel Day Parade.

Moreover, he still refuses to condemn two chants often taken up by anti-Israel protesters.

One is a call to “Globalize the intifada,” and the other is “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Both effectively call for the elimination of Israel.

As such, it should not be a heavy lift for the mayor of the city with the world’s largest Jewish population to rule them out of bounds.

But he won’t do that, and also says he would arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he set foot in the city.

He cites as justification an indictment by the UN International Criminal Court, even though the United States does not recognize the court’s jurisdiction.

Yet nothing reveals the mayor’s double standard as much as imagining his reaction if the coffee shop had banned a Muslim patron, or a black one, or an Asian, a Latino, or a transgender customer.

In all those cases, the mayor would have rushed to a press conference where he would have mounted his high horse and, surrounded by his socialist comrades, denounced hate and trotted out his “warmth of collectivism” gibberish.

But his silence in this case does not come in a vacuum.

His mayoralty has made it open season on Jews and Israel. In those cases alone, hate is acceptable because it fits his radical agenda.

RE: his radical agenda.

Goodwin talks about the "darkness in his soul."

Mayor Zohran Mamdani last week tore off the mask: He’s going, full-on antisemite.

At last Thursday’s rally for his slate of extremist House candidates — Brad Lander, Darializa Avila Chevalier, and Claire Valdez — Mamdani railed that we’re now living in a “time of monsters.”

Who are these monsters? 

Though they “take many forms,” it’s … AIPAC, he says.

We know now that his list of "extremist House candidates" was elected over those Democrat candidates supported by the Democrat Party. 

In other words, he's at war with both our nation itself and his own Democratic Party

Per Mamdani, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is the heart of all evil in America; the only thing it fears more than democracy “is an end to genocide.”

Actually, AIPAC is an entirely legal political outfit that operates like dozens of other issue-oriented PACs, including much larger ones that support Mamdani and his Leftist, socialist, Islamic causes.

Goodwin is right to define this movement, which is casting a shadow across America, as "darkness in his soul."

The Bible is very clear that these new leaders are wrong on several fronts. Particularly in their efforts to erase Israel from the world map.

The Bible is abundantly clear that Israel is God's chosen people.

And those who bless Israel will be blessed by God. Those who curse Israel will be cursed by God.

Genesis 12:3 (where God speaks to Abraham) and Numbers 24:9 (where the prophet Balaam speaks over Israel). Here are the exact texts: 

Genesis 12:3: "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."Numbers 24:9: "Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

What part of this do some professing Christians not understand?

Socialism fails every time.

Here's why.

First and foremost, Jesus taught in His Parable of the Talents that socialism always fails.  

And consider this:

  • Socialism is the Big Lie of past centuries. While it promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny. Equality was achieved only in the sense that everyone was equal in his or her misery.

By failing to emphasize incentives, socialism is a theory inconsistent with human nature and is therefore doomed to fail. Socialism is based on the theory that incentives don’t matter!

  • The strength of capitalism can be attributed to an incentive structure based upon the three Ps: (1) prices determined by market forces, (2) a profit-and-loss system of accounting, and (3) private property rights. The failure of socialism can be traced to its neglect of these three incentive-enhancing components.
  • By their failure to foster, promote, and nurture the potential of their people through incentive-enhancing institutions, centrally planned economies deprive the human spirit of full development. Socialism fails because it kills and destroys the human spirit–just ask the people of Cuba who have left their country in homemade rafts and boats. Or talk to the people of  Venezuela. 
  • The temptress of socialism is constantly luring us with the offer: “Give up a little of your freedom, and I will give you a little more security.” As experience has demonstrated, the bargain is tempting but never pays off. We end up losing both our freedom and our security.

Socialism will remain a constant temptation. We must be vigilant in our fight against socialism, not only around the globe but also here in the United States.

  • The main difference between capitalism and socialism is this: Capitalism works.

Takeaway

Janeese Lewis George all but clinched the office of Washington, D.C., mayor on Thursday, after winning the city’s Democratic primary — making her the latest of a slate of socialists who are either running or in contention to run America’s biggest cities.

Perhaps most prominent on that list is New York City, where outspoken DSA member Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral race decisively in November 2025. “What the purpose is about this entire project — it’s not simply to raise class consciousness, but to win socialism,” Mamdani said in a 2021 speech for the Young Democratic Socialists of America. “We have to continue to elect more socialists. And we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.”

About a week after Mamdani’s win, self-proclaimed socialist Katie Wilson secured her seat as Seattle’s mayor. Though not officially endorsed by the Seattle DSA chapter, Wilson modeled her campaign in a socialist spirit similar to Mamdani’s and embraced comparisons to him. She co-founded Seattle Transit Riders Union (TRU) in 2011 and advocates for an even more revolutionary form of socialism.

“I’m a socialist in a way that goes beyond that,” Wilson said in a recent radio interview. “I actually think that we need a really fundamental restructuring of our society and our economy. … I would even say that I’m a Marxist. … Socialism … requires a really fundamental restructuring of life and work and the role of what money actually functions as.”

The goal of the DSA is the same as that of any Marxist organization: to abolish capitalism by restructuring society. This is accomplished through the advancement of various policy initiatives:

  • Defunding the police, 
  • Communization of wealth, and “restructuring gender and cultural relationships.” 
  • Propagation of openly Marxist ideology via reading groups held at local party chapters in community centers or churches. The Metro DC chapter reads Karl Marx’s Das Kapital every fall.

Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Bold. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.