Mamdani Jews should have no say banning Jews from Judea and Samaria

On November 11, 2025 Farlei Weiss wrote in Arutz 7 "As a delegate to the recently concluded World Zionist in Congress in Jerusalem, I saw the left gleefully pushing for a Commission to investigate the Israeli government's failures that led to October 7. What I did not see was any sense of introspection by them for their own failures and their responsibility for October 7, 2023. If one really wants to investigate the failures of October 7, 2023 one needs to start with the decision supported by the left wing American Jews and enacted by Israel's left wing Labor Government on September 13, 1993 to sign the Oslo Agreements with Arafat and the PLO (now the Palestinian Authority) based on the naive belief that the Palestinian Arabs wanted to live in peace with Israel...

"...Netanyahu allowed a limited number of Palestinian Arabs from Gaza to obtain permits to work in Israel, up to around 7,000, but the Lapid-Bennett government that took over on June 13, 2021 and stayed in power until November 1, 2022 vastly increased this number to 20,000 or more in coordination with the Biden Administration. The idea was that this would economically benefit the Palestinian Arabs in Gaza and help lead to peace. Instead, these Palestinian Arab workers helped map out the border areas of Israel and relayed detailed information about the Israeli families who employed them to help prepare for the catastrophic Hamas attack on October 7. On that day, about 3,800 Hamas terrorists were joined by at least 2,200 Palestinian Arab civilians in the barbaric massacre, beheadings, rapings and burning alive of babies perpetrated on October 7, 2023.

"In September 2025, the Israeli government approved construction of 3,000 units in E1 which is a 4.6 square mile area between Jerusalem and the Judean city of 40,000 Israeli Jews in Maale Adumim. I was part of a small group that received a briefing on the building overlooking E1 from Maale Adumim the day before the Conference.

"The left in the Conference pushed for a resolution to prevent Jews and only allow Palestinian Arabs to live and build in E1. The only reason behind this was to create a Palestinian Arab state in the area, as if the American left had learned nothing after October 7.

" The Israeli public has learned from the catastrophe of the quasi-Palestinian Arab state that ruled in Gaza before October 7 and is now firmly opposed to such a state. The result in Israel is that the Knesset overwhelmingly rejected such a state in July 2024 in a 68-9 vote with no Zionist parties supporting such a state. Furthermore, no Zionist parties opposed Israeli construction in E1, but the American Jewish left at the Conference did oppose such building. At the World Zionist Congress, the American Jewish left showed that they have not undergone a most necessary process of introspection, and have not taken responsibility for their errors of judgment before October 7, 2023. They urgently need to do so."

It is not surprising that the American Jewish left pushed for a resolution "to prevent Jews and only allow Palestinian Arabs to live and build in E1", these are the same people that voted for Mamdani despite his antisemitism.

On November 9, 2025 the Times of Israel reported "Mamdani’s New York victory exposes fault lines in Jewish Democratic politics... One-third of Jewish voters backed anti-Israel candidate, helping him to a victory that alarms those who opposed him..."

American Jewish leftists who voted for Mamdani are more likely to be seen in a pro-Palestinian rally than in a rally defending Israel. How can this be explained? They think they are morally superior and better educated than other Jews that are not as "progressive" as they are. They have moral values that have been shaped mostly by Reform Judaism which taught them that liberalism is more important than Judaism, intersectionality is more important than the safety of the Jewish State.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe wrote:

"By the Grace of God, 27th of Sivan, Brooklyn, NY., Greetings and blessing:

"...an Orthodox Rabbi cannot in all conscience recognize the Conservative and Reform points of view, inasmuch as both of the latter do not accept the Written and Oral Law. Hence these movements and their representatives cannot be recognized as legitimately representing the Jewish religion, inasmuch as they reject it. This has been unequivocally ruled by the Rambam and other authorities that followed him, who have established the laws and attitudes of the Shulchan Aruch, leaving no room for doubt or discussion on this basic issue.

"From the above it follows immediately that the activities of such dissident groups cannot be recognized as Jewish religious activities within the definition of Jewish religion. Therefore, Orthodox Rabbis cannot, in all conscience, be members of a body or organization together with representatives of the non-Orthodox points of view, namely, of the Conservative and Reform movements, inasmuch as participation and affiliation in such a body or organization would ipso facto constitute a recognition of the Conservative and Reform interpretation of Judaism as being legitimate parts of the framework of the Jewish Religion, in direct conflict with the unequivocal Psak Din of the Rambam and other authorities, as mentioned above..." (source: "The Letter and the Spirit", volume II page 57)

Since American leftist Jews vote for antisemites like Mamdani who support BDS and the "global intifada" they should not have a voice in banning Jews from living in E1. Mamdani Jews should have no say banning Jews from Judea and Samaria.

Ezequiel Doiny is author of “Obama’s assault on Jerusalem’s Western Wall” and “Jerusalem is the Spiritual capital of Judaism while Mecca is the Spiritual Capital of Islam”