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.
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.
Us Jews have a strong tradition of infighting and argument.
I’m looking forward to the antizionist Jewish children at the counter protest
“We Jews”, not “Us” - it’s the subject, not the object of the sentence.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Student-led as in “put the children first so that people can’t take a swing at us when we start praising genocide”
Zionists love their human shields and harming children.
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.
He’ll be handing out lemonade, order pizzas, etc.
Seein as it’s broadcast ahead of time, this Uno reverse card strat is possible
What a racist school
And Mamdani will probably smile and tell them it’s their first amendment right to organize in such a way.
I can totally see him going outside to talk to them and successfully convincing the students that genocide is actually bad.
It would be really awesome if he went out there, took the time to pray with them, and shared his happiness in the peace and harmony of many cultures living together like in New York City.
“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.
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.
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.
There’s more Christian Zionists in both the world and the US than there are Jews in the world.
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.
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
Its not news that lots of jewish schools and clubs are Israeli aligned indoctrination machines. There are a few good documentaries out there just about this topic. This is on the low end of the outrage bar actually, they do way worse stuff like trying to recruit kids straight from US schools into the IDF.
I recommend the film Israelism
birthright trips are exactly this. they reframe the zionist occupation as:
- fun
- a moral obligation
- an opportunity to meet hot singles to make soldiers for the future
israel uses sex and sexuality to both glorify a patriarchy and to pinkwash genocide both at the same time. it’s extremely gross
grew up as an anti zionist jew in nyc my whole life, everyone i know is like so disgusted and shocked i never went to birthright it’s like a glitch in the matrix for them. it’s one of the best brainwashing tools among so many more israel has
100%! I’ve seen so many people treat it as a travel opportunity and then go without any consideration for that you will only see what Israel wants you to see, and that it is only so cheap to go because they are paying to brainwash you.
Also the notion that a birthright trip is the defining aspect of Jewish life is INSANE! The whole thing with Jewishness is that our experiences with the experience are varied and diverse, yet there is a sense of community that ties us all together. To ignore that and focus on a state sponsored act of violence when for so many of us the point of our existence is to defy state violence is disgusting, vile, and infuriating.
The most horrifying to me has been how many former friends have come back from their trip and no longer eat unleavened bread for passover because “the exodus is over” like that was ever the fucking point
Race purity all the way for these psychos yep.
The Israelis who want grandchildren from their dead sons’ sperm
Israel has been a cancer on Judaism.
And although the destruction it did to Judaism is nothing compared to what it did to Palestinians, it’s still killing Judaism.
