Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been blasted for fueling antisemitism and “inciting violence” against Jews after the socialist branded the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and its pro-Israel supporters “monsters” at a campaign rally.
Chaim Steinmetz, senior rabbi of the Kehilath Jeshurun synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, said he was stunned by the mayor’s flagrantly incendiary comments during a June 18 campaign rally with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and a slate of Democratic Socialists of America and progressive candidates ahead of Tuesday’s primary elections.
“Mamdani is accusing AIPAC of being a monster that subverts democracy, supports genocide and wants to divide Americans. This is pure incitement,” Steinmetz raged on social media.
The rabbi said comments like the mayor’s inspire Jew haters like Elias Rodriguez — the man charged with killing two Israeli Embassy staff members in Washington, DC, in May 2025 — to “take violent action against AIPAC and its supporters.”
