The New York State Republican Celebration is launching an advert marketing campaign urging Jewish voters to hitch the GOP — whereas accusing Democrats together with Mayor Zohran Mamdani of selling or condoning antisemitism.
The advert — showing in Jewish publications and Jewish-concentrated social media — comprises an open letter from State GOP Chairman Ed Cox addressed “To Our Jewish Neighbors and Fellow New Yorkers.”
“The New York State Republican Celebration stands with you. Unequivocally,” Cox wrote within the letter.
“We think about Israel a democratic miracle, America’s indispensable ally, and proof that the Jewish individuals’s historical covenant with their land was not a relic of historical past however a promise to be fulfilled,” the letter stated.
“We stand in opposition to antisemitism wherever it seems, as a result of we perceive what Judaism has given the world. Jewish scripture is central to the ethical structure of Western civilization.”
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Cox then unloads on Mamdani and different Democratic leaders for condoning, if not fanning the flames of, antisemitism.
“We watch with unhappiness because the Democratic Celebration, which alleges to face for marginalized teams, spirals into that ugliest and oldest hatred, anti-Semitism,” he wrote.
“Zohran Mamdani’s assertion calling AIPAC and its members ‘monsters’ has no place in American political discourse,” Cox stated, referring to Mamdani’s feedback concerning the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
“It’s the worst form of antisemitism.”
Cox ripped Gov. Kathy Hochul and Home Democratic Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries for endorsing Mamdani’s marketing campaign for mayor and Senate Democratic Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, who’s Jewish, claiming he “cowers in silence.”
“We stand with our fellow patriotic People at AIPAC, as they work to strengthen the American-Israeli relationship and combat the scourge of antisemitism that has discovered a house within the Democratic Celebration and is championed by New York Metropolis’s mayor,” Cox stated within the letter.
He claimed Jews have been leaving the Democratic Celebration “in droves.”
“From Maine to Michigan to New Jersey to proper right here in New York, you might be instructed you might be now not welcome. Please know that, in contrast to the Democratic Celebration, the New York State Republican Celebration values you and can be proud to have you ever amongst our ranks. You may have a house with us,” Cox stated.
Mamdani and his allies within the Democratic Socialists of America are staunch critics of Israel.
The mayor even helps the boycott, sanctions and divestment marketing campaign in opposition to the Jewish state, which the Anti-Defamation League describes as a type of antisemitism.
The three Mamdani-backed Home candidates who received Democratic main elections final month — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez and Brad Lander, who’s Jewish — are Israel bashers who accuse the Jewish state of genocide in Gaza.
Mamdani and different critics preserve they’re pro-Palestinian critics of Israel, however that they oppose antisemitism.
The mayor doesn’t help Israel present as a Jewish state.
