Newsflash, Zohran: The NYPD's issues predate Israel's birth by centuries, think slave patrols, Tammany Hall graft, and stop-and-frisk under your hero de Blasio.
But why let facts ruin a good blood libel? It's easier to scapegoat the Jews, right? Whisper that the IDF's "lacing" those boots, and suddenly every traffic stop becomes a Mossad plot. Bernard-Henri Lévy nailed it in the Wall Street Journal: This is "antisemitism, pure and simple," a "fear-mongering" trope that paints Israel as the root of global evil.
And ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt? He called it "twisted conspiratorial thinking," code for the same poison that fueled pogroms and the Holocaust, now repackaged for TikTok activists.
You're not some wide-eyed intern, Zohran, you're a 33-year-old assemblyman with a Bowdoin degree and a DSA badge, polling at 38% because gullible progressives mistake your umbrage for empathy. But peel back the "pro-Palestine" piety, and it's a cesspool of selective outrage. You won't condemn "globalize the intifada," that charming chant for murdering Jews from the river to the sea—but you'll arrest Netanyahu if he sets foot in your hypothetical mayoral lair? Spare us the tough-guy act; it's the posturing of a man too cowardly to call Hamas butchers by name, even as they glorify October 7's rape-and-slaughter festival.
And now, with over 1,000 rabbis begging NYC Jews to vote against your sorry hide, you slink onto Fox News with a mealy-mouthed "my views have evolved" apology?
Please. You're not evolving; you're evading. Pledging to keep Jessica Tisch as police commissioner? That's not growth, it's a grubby pivot to dodge the defund-the-police albatross you hung around your own neck in 2020, when you branded the NYPD "racist, anti-queer, and a major threat to public safety."
Evolved? More like exposed—your "plan" to fight antisemitism is as substantive as your rent-freeze fairy tale: all buzzwords, no backbone.This isn't isolated idiocy; it's your brand, Zohran—a toxic cocktail of BDS boycotts, intifada indifference, and now this IDF boot-lacing lunacy that makes even your DSA comrades squirm.
Andrew Cuomo's right: Your "arrogance and antisemitism" isn't just synagogue fodder; it's a citywide siren for the synagogue bombers and campus screamers who've turned NYC into a no-go zone for kippahs since October 7.
And Trump? He's laughing from Mar-a-Lago, dubbing you "one of the best things to happen to the Republican Party" because your extremism hands moderates like Cuomo a golden ticket.
On November 5, when the ranked-choice dust settles, let this be your epitaph: Not the mayor of all New York, but the demagogue who laced his own ambitions with hate. Get out of the race, Zohran, or better yet, take your "hyper-local" hallucinations to a DSA therapy session. The Big Apple bites back.
