September 15, 2026
The schools appear to have been careful not to refer to the event as a “protest,” describing it in their communications as a “communal prayer” and a “student-led communal Shacharit.” Their messaging about the reason for the demonstration, too, has been vague. The emails viewed by Jewish Currents do not mention Mamdani’s criticism of Israel or his condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the two major points of tension between the mayor and the Jewish establishment.
Despite the cautious tone, it is hard to read this mustering of day-school students outside Gracie Mansion as anything other than an act of protest against Mamdani, and an implicit charge that he poses a particular threat to observant Jews in the city. “It is time for us to stand up and be heard,” the email to Ramaz parents read. “It is time to show up proudly as Jews, as New Yorkers, and as Zionists.”
It’s not really student-led if the schools are making them go, is it.
Poor kids. They don’t deserve to be used as a means to an end like this.
Student-led as in “put the children first so that people can’t take a swing at us when we start praising genocide”
There was a wave of stories and reports a few years ago that many kids coming out of the yeshivas couldn’t read or write English., didn’t know BASIC science and math, or really anything necessary for life. This was in NYC and the metro area
Oh, they also get public funding. Although in 2025 NY pulled their funding for being so far behind the average (already behind) American public school student.
this us a huge problem with most private schools in the south too, the exist to indoctrinate and everything else falls by the wayside, if not viewed as counter productive.
I hope Mamdani charms the shit out of them and they all have a great time.
A reporter already asked him and he said he’ll be at work and not home.
And Mamdani will probably smile and tell them it’s their first amendment right to organize in such a way.
Show up as a Jew, show up as a New Yorker. Love how they snuck Zionist in there. Jews and New Yorkers should not be held responsible for the actions of Israel.
Jews and New Yorkers should not be held responsible for the actions of Israel
… Unless they are actively and publicly using their speech and funds by their own choice to support a genocide, in which case they should be held responsible for such support for genocide.
FTFY.
Honestly, this is hella anecdotal, but all the Jews I’ve met in the USA (including myself though technically I’m not Jewish just have ancestry and grew up with some traditions) actually do not actively support Israel.
All of them have said what’s happening to the Palestinians is fucked up and a genocide. I’m not friends with Zionists though.
I loathe that Israel has tried, and in many cases succeeded, to tie Judaism together with Zionism. It just leads to antisemitism because what Israel is doing is so wrong but the state seems to have a vested interest in people thinking of it as Jews doing it which is a messed up way to frame it.
Anyways yeah let’s hold people accountable but you can’t blame Jews as a whole for what Israel is doing.
Precisely! The thing at issue here is that the post is discussing specifically a subset of Jewish New Yorkers who are trying, actively, to tie Zionism inextricably with New Yorker Identity and Jewish faith, and using fucking children to do it. Such people need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for suborning genocide and material support of a terrorist organisation.
Except it seems a lot of people are Zionist both of the Jewish faith and what ever that bullshit thing they call Christianity I in America.
It is time to show up proudly as Jews, as New Yorkers, and as Zionists.”
The KKK proudly showed up as Christians, Southerners, and violent racists…
A couple things like religion and location don’t cancel out the whole “kill people for being different” thing
I mean it would be a protest but the fact that it’s religion based and narrowly targeted makes it criminal harassment with a hate crime enhancement.
It is supremacist based
Religions are almost exclusively supremacist, spirituality less so but still they can be abused.
You can be supermaist without being religious. The argument of ancestral right to the land is more used to justify the colonization of Palestine than religion
Yes this just happens to be specifically because he’s Muslim.
TF? When did Jews become the racists??
It’s zionists. They’ve always been racist.
It turns out that the problem has never been racism, but who is allowed to dish it out.
Or to control who society punishes rather. Racists are always going to be able to dish out more racism. Nothing we can do about that sadly.
Every organized religion perpetuates bigotry.
All this does is muddy the waters of, “I’m against Israel, not Jews,” which I guess is the point to make it easier to defend against criticism of Israel.
Man, I remember they days when I was in school and when the admiration told us to do something, well we’d maliciously comply because as Pennywise says, fuck authority.
I hope these kids are bright enough to do just that and not be used as human shields.
This will either backfire because he’s a genuinely awesome person or they will try to physically attack him and will get to learn firsthand what Qualified Immunity means.
I wonder what kind of turnout they’ll get. Will it be three kids, 30, or 300?
I’m guessing on the low end. If the counter-protesters show up early, they will scare off the kids.
It’s ABSOLUTELY a protest, despite trying to rebrand it otherwise.
Shame on these parents for using their kids as a prop for their politics.
I don’t agree at all with the idea of sending kids to a protest like this, but I just want to point out that “Mamdani’s home” right now is really Gracie Mansion, the official residence* of the NYC Mayor**.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracie_Mansion
*(Unless said mayor is getting divorced, then his soon-to-be ex wife kicks him out…)
**(Or, unless the mayor is a gazillionaire with his own mansion that’s better, thank you very much)
My point is that it’s not like they doxxed him, they all know where he lives.
not sure anyone was complaining any doxxing him.
Is this a common thing? Do many American cities offer housing to their mayor?
Ninja Edit: only 5 instances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_residence
(Scroll down HARD)
Not common at all. Wikipedia lists only 4 cities, and one of those was never actually used as a living space by any of the mayors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mayors'_mansions_in_the_United_States
They seem to all be gifts from a rich person to the city.
Who’s cares they, support genocide and contribute to antisemitism
