Barring a black-swan event, Democratic Party candidate Zohran Mamdani will emerge as the winner of New York City’s mayoral election on Nov. 4. The current polls show him with an insurmountable lead over his three rivals, with the momentum behind him likely to consolidate even further as Election Day approaches.

This is a moment of reckoning, then, for New York’s Jewish community, as a declared enemy of the State of Israel takes the helm of a city so defined by its Jewish population that it was once insultingly referred to as “Hymietown” by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. These days, “Mamdanistan” may be a more accurate descriptor for what lies in store going forward.

Mamdani is the sort of candidate who could only emerge at a time when conspiracy theories have overwhelmed much of the left and th

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