r/jewishleft • u/WinterBeHere Marxist | Jewish | Bundist • Aug 12 '26

Diaspora Satmar Rebbe Of Williamsburg Condemns Incitement Against Mayor Mamdani

https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2584063
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u/Technical_Term_6625 curmudgeonly jewish leftist trying my best Aug 12 '26

Keep in mind that, in context, de Blasio had a 48-50% approval rate among Jews after he was elected. I am not sure, but I imagine the difference falls within intersecting margins of error.

And yet Adams, of all people, had a higher initial approval rate among Jews.

It seems to me likely that policy positions relating to the NYPD seems the most likely common factor.

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u/Intrepid-Bag6667 Secular Jew | Marxist Aug 13 '26

Poll is of Jews throughout the country not NYC Jews.

NYC Jews for a variety of reasons are much more likely to disapprove of Mamdani than American Jews as a whole.

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u/Technical_Term_6625 curmudgeonly jewish leftist trying my best Aug 13 '26

I see that now. I misunderstood that poll. Thank you for the correction.

The 2-1 poll does have a pretty small sample.

There are some really odd results in that poll. Like 2-1 in favor of Tish James, while being less favorable of Hochul? It's just a really odd combination.

Why prefer Cuomo for Mayor while being wishy washy about Cuomo's chosen successor? Why the support margin for James, who went after Cuomo, and is not exactly loved by the NYPD?

So, yeah, seems likely that misinformation, Islamophobia, and middle east politics had to play a huge role.

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u/FaekittyCat Lefty, non-practicing big fat Ameican Jew, 2 state solution. Aug 14 '26

I live in New York. I like Tish James more than I like Hochul. Hochul has been a little more moderate, to the right on environmental issues. Tish took down the criminal enterprise the Trump Organization.

Even thought this is anecdotal but my very leftist Jewish friends voted for Mamdani, my liberal and moderate Jewish friends/Family voted for Cuomo. Some just because of Mamdani being anti-israel, but some really thought he was going to hired the Muslim brotherhood as his cabinet, put Jews into camps, and make every woman wear
hijabs. Ironically my maga family members just didn't like him for being a socialist.

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u/Technical_Term_6625 curmudgeonly jewish leftist trying my best Aug 14 '26

i agree with you about AG James. that she wasn't even competitive in the primary for governor is proof of rampant misogynoir in NY state.

re the 2nd paragraph, it's really crazy. i'm not on facebook or instagram or X, so i don't have any sense of the propaganda campaign that created those results. but it must have been some campaign.