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.”
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.
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.
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.
proudly as Jews
Okay, with ya
New Yorkers
Yes, makes sense
and as Zionists
Wtf? You’re proudly hunting for more Lebensraum now?
Yeah idk we have to make zionism a bad word. Idk it always was for me but I guess conservatives are trying to make it cool or something?
zionism is genocide, full stop.
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.
Us Jews have a strong tradition of infighting and argument.
I’m looking forward to the antizionist Jewish children at the counter protest
This could backfire horribly for them. If Mamdani actually goes out and greets them, talks with them, and is just a nice person, this is going to make him look so good while making them look silly. From everything I know about him, this isn’t unlikely either. The only concern is about making this acceptable, but since the children didn’t play a role in this it seems fine to me.
Because, apparently, Jewish people are some of the biggest assholes on the planet.
Legit 10 years ago I would have thought that a statement like that was racist. In light of what is going on today, I have a very different perspective.
Part of the zionist project is to make their ideology inseparable from Judaism and ethnic Jewish identity. To me it seems dangerous to conflate zionism with Jewishness as you’re basically playing into their hands.
What a racist school
TF? When did Jews become the racists??
It’s antisemitic to conflate Zionists with Jews. Don’t be antisemitic.
Every organized religion perpetuates bigotry.
hey that would be difficult to do as a Sikh, look them up sometime their history is interesting and surprisingly short
And yet there’s still Sikh terrorists.
Every religion produces extremists and people who try to twist the religion to justify their existing hate and politics. It’s a constant of humanity.
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.
It’s zionists. They’ve always been racist.
And mostly Evangelical Christians
Definitely both
“It is time to show up proudly as Jews, as New Yorkers, and as Zionists.”
It’s time for us to show up as AIPAC stooges for genocide, apartheid and western imperialism.
Crisis actors /s
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.
Unfortunately Palestinian children won’t be there to counter protest as they will be too busy being wiped from the earth by the IDF and Zionist policy.
“It is time to show up proudly as
JewsGermans, asNew YorkersBerliners, and asZionistsNazis.”That’s okay, they still get to enjoy the improvements in NYC anyway, even if they don’t appreciate them.
