Mandy Strikes Again
Mandy Patinkin’s Jewish Shame Parade: Selling Out for Mamdani
In the final push for New York City's mayoral election, celebrated Jewish actor Mandy Patinkin and his wife, actress Kathryn Grody, have thrown their star power behind socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani in a new get-out-the-vote (GOTV) video.
Famed Jewish actor Mandy Patinkin, 73, and his wife Kathryn Grody, 75, have decided to dust off their pandemic-era TikTok schtick for a fresh humiliation: a get-out-the-vote video pimping socialist NYC mayoral wannabe Zohran Mamdani like he's the second coming of rent control. Because nothing screams "Jewish pride" like capering on camera for a guy who thinks Israel's a "genocide" machine and refuses to affirm its right to exist as a Jewish state.
Mazel tov, folks, pass the matzah and the eye-rolls.In the cringeworthy 1-minute clip, dropped by Mamdani's campaign yesterday and already racking up eye-rolls on X, Patinkin beams like he's just nailed an audition for Fiddler on the Roof 2: The Woke Edition. "We are going to win this because we have this extraordinary human being who’s going to lead our city," he gushes, all earnest intensity, as if Mamdani's platform of free buses and BDS fever dreams is the cure for Gotham's woes.
Grody, ever the supportive spouse, chimes in with platitudes about thriving New Yorkers, "as Jews," no less, while the trio urges viewers to knock doors and phone-bank. It's all very Homeland, if Saul Berenson had traded counterterrorism for counter-Zionism. But here's the kicker: Patinkin's not just endorsing; he's auditioning as the poster boy for Jews who hate their own history enough to platform a candidate who's dodged condemning Hamas, cheered "globalize the intifada" (code for bus bombings, anyone?), and skipped a Holocaust remembrance resolution because, well, priorities.
Let's unpack this betrayal for the uninitiated. Patinkin, the Chicago Jew who once rewrote Yom Kippur prayers to bash Israel's "eternal occupation," has a rap sheet of lefty activism longer than his Evita run.
Fine, whatever, everyone's got a cause. But teaming up with Mamdani? That's not allyship; that's assimilation into the fever swamp where anti-Zionism blurs into Jew-bashing. Mamdani, the 33-year-old Ugandan-born DSA darling polling as a shock frontrunner, has built his brand on slamming Israel as an "apartheid" state committing "genocide" in Gaza, backing boycotts that target Jewish businesses, and hobnobbing with imams who praise Hamas butchers.
He's dodged questions on whether Israel deserves to exist as a Jewish state—settling for "equal rights" vagueness that reeks of the "from the river to the sea" chant his crowds adore.
And yet, here’s Patinkin, the guy who invokes Hashem in every interview, cooing about an "inclusive" NYC under a mayor who'd rather fund anti-hate bureaucracies than call out the intifada-glorifiers terrorizing Jewish delis.
The backlash? Swift and savage, as it should be. Over 650 rabbis have penned open letters blasting Mamdani's "normalization of anti-Zionism" as a dog-whistle for the synagogue vandals and campus screamers who've made NYC a hotbed of post-October 7 hate.
The AJC's sounding alarms that his rhetoric ignores "the vast majority of Jewish New Yorkers" who dare to be Zionist without apology.
Even on X, where the video's blowing up, users are torching Patinkin as a "disgraced" sellout peddling "ideological poison" to a city already reeling from Mamdani's foreign-donor scandals and Hamas-adjacent family ties.
One post nails it: "Antisemitism is an ideology that traces all the world's problems to the Jews... Zohran Mamdani is an antisemite."
Patinkin's response? Crickets, probably while practicing his "Al Het" remix for the next protest.
Look, Mandy, we get it, your Princess Bride revenge quest got derailed somewhere between Broadway and Berkeley. But this? Endorsing a guy whose "extraordinary" vision includes starving Israel of legitimacy while NYC's Jews dodge "globalize the intifada" graffiti? It's not progressive; it's pathetic. It's the kind of Jewish "solidarity" that leaves actual Jews holding the bag, alone, again, naturally. If Mamdani wins (polls say he's got 38% of the Jewish vote, because masochism is a mitzvah now), we'll know who to thank: useful idiots like Patinkin, auditioning for irrelevance one tone-deaf video at a time.
As the November 4 ranked-choice circus looms, New Yorkers: Skip the celebrity kool-aid. Vote for sanity, not this self-hating sideshow. And Mandy? Stick to singing "Sunrise, Sunset," leave the politics to those who don't treat their own people like the villain in the script.