Mayoral candidates of all stripes typically seek to convince voters that, under their leadership, the city will ensure public safety for all.

Curtis Sliwa is not typical.

“I, unlike any of the candidates, have said Jews must protect themselves,” Sliwa, the Republican candidate in New York City’s mayor’s race, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in a recent interview. “If you depend strictly on Gentiles, history is replete with instances where you’re going to be horribly disappointed.“

He put it more sharply in a July interview with the Queens Jewish Link: “I’m not going to be your Gentile mashiach like Eric Adams and Cuomo tend to,” he said, using the Hebrew or Yiddish word for messiah. “I thought Jewish people were smart. How is it you keep expecting Gentiles to protect you? They have

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