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What Mamdani Assumes About Judaism

Reduce Judaism to religion only and Jewish peoplehood disappears. That's the point. It's antisemitism, fluent in the language of universal rights

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Nadav Eyal
Jun 29, 2026
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The most revealing moment in Zohran Mamdani’s recent interview to ABC was not what he said about Israel. It was what he assumed about Judaism.

Asked whether he supported Israel as a Jewish state, Mamdani replied:

“I support the state of Israel as a state with equal rights.”

“But as a Jewish state is the question,” the interviewer pressed.

“I think any state…

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