It’s so easy to hate Jews nowadays, you don’t even need an excuse for expressing your vitriol.

The ascension of Zohran Mamdani, his guaranteed position on the ballot for New York City mayor, does not, contrary to common belief, represent a surge in the popularity of hating Jews. What it does, rather, is concretize what New York Jews, specifically and American Jewry, more generally, already felt in their bones, in their “kishkes” as my “Bubee,” would say.

Mamdani’s success in the NYC Democratic primary illustrates that Jew hatred is now an established reality. Present-day Jew hatred is not a spike on the status quo — it is the status quo.

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