If This Smiling Jihadist Becomes NY Mayor the Once Great City Will Turn Into a Baltimore Style Dumpster Fire
Throughout human history, many cities have risen to global prominence, only to decline rapidly once their Jewish populations were persecuted or forced to flee.
This pattern played out in Córdoba in Spain, Vienna in Austria, Berlin in Germany, Thessaloniki in Greece, and Warsaw in Poland. All of these were once vibrant cultural, financial, or intellectual centers, until they turned on their Jewish communities. In many cases, the city’s importance quickly collapsed afterward.
Conversely, other cities that welcomed large numbers of Jews flourished dramatically, Amsterdam, London, and above all, New York City, each transformed into a miniature empire of commerce, culture, and innovation.
But today, it seems New York may be following the path of Vienna and Warsaw.
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman has issued a stark warning about the future of New York City, should Jihado-Progressive candidate Zohran Mamdani win the upcoming mayoral election.
Mamdani, currently a state assemblyman and a self-identified socialist, has proposed a sweeping economic transformation for the city, including sharp tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations to fund up to $10 billion annually in new welfare and public service programs.
"It wouldn't take more than a small number of high earners to leave to collapse New York’s income tax base," Ackman wrote on x. "If Mamdani wins, billionaires won’t wait around to see how bad it gets."
His concern is backed by data: roughly 2% of New York City residents, the wealthiest, pay nearly 50% of the city’s personal income tax revenue, according to an analysis by Politifact and the Independent Budget Office (IBO).
In other words, a tiny portion of the population carries half the city’s income tax burden. The departure of even a fraction of this group could leave a gaping budget shortfall.
Jewish Business Leaders Alarmed
Moreover, New York is home to an estimated 800,000 Jews, and it’s no secret that a significant portion of the city’s business and philanthropic leadership is Jewish. Mamdani, is known to be an extreme critic of Israel who supports the BDS and harbors antisemitic views.
If elected, Mamdani may not just alienate the city’s economic elite but actively drive out a large segment of the Jewish business community. Their departure, in turn, could trigger a domino effect, encouraging other high-net-worth individuals to relocate, and taking with them capital, investment, and job creation.
This mayoral candidate could do to New York what Sadiq Khan has done to London: undermine one of the great Anglo-American cities, hollow out its business core, and reduce it to a symbolic capital of a declining, globalized post-Western order.