In a highly charged op-ed, prominent constitutional lawyer and civil liberties advocate Alan Dershowitz has issued a stark warning regarding the recent election of New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Dershowitz asserts that Mamdani’s victory—secured with slightly over 50 percent of the electorate, including more than 30 percent of Jewish voters—suggests that antisemitism and anti-Israel bigotry are no longer disqualifying factors in New York politics.
Dershowitz argues that New Yorkers were prepared to vote for an alleged antisemite not necessarily because of his anti-Jewish bigotry, but “despite it.”
In his op-ed, he expressed concern that this shift reflects a broader, dangerous normalization of double standards applicable to “everything Jewish, including Israel ,” a tre

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