The deal between those who need a Jew they can point to, and the Jew who has decided to burn the house down.

Not a conspiracy. Not a coincidence. A deal, with two parties, two pathologies, and a machine that owes its existence to the transaction at its core.

“These monsters take many forms today… in AIPAC, for whom the only thing more frightening than democracy being allowed to run its course is an end to the genocide in Netanyahu’s wars. They move millions in dark money to accomplish a single goal: to preserve their power, so that they can turn us against one another.”

Monsters. Dark money. Anti-democracy. Genocide. Turning us against one another.

This was not a Nazi rally in 1930’s Berlin. This was not a Klan meeting in a basement in Jim Crow’s South.

This was the Mayor of New York City, the city with the largest Jewish population on earth. Speaking to a cheering crowd in Brooklyn.

Not about Iran. Not about Putin’s Russia. Not about a militia. About a civic organization representing millions of Americans who believe, as Jews have believed for three millennia, that Israel is the promised land and that the security of the one Jewish land on earth is not a political preference but an existential necessity.

The crowd was exuberant. The Jews on the right side of Mamdani’s history cheered.

And on that stage, smiling, lending his face to every syllable of it, stood Brad Lander, former Comptroller of New York City, now Congressman-elect for New York’s 10th District. Not a bystander but the machine’s chosen instrument. He stood there while the mayor of the most Jewish city on earth called Jewish institutions monstrous, genocide enablers, corrupt, and dangerous. When asked to condemn a single word of it, he said only: ‘I can only be responsible for the words I use.’ Then posted on social media that the evening had been a tremendous honor.

This piece is not about antisemitism. Those who have read me know I do not believe in fighting it the way our leading organizations do. It is not about exposing Mamdani. This is about the deal.

It is a deal that has become increasingly common. In an era where Zionism has been cast as a crime of history and the Jewish state blamed for apartheid, genocide, mass starvation and worse. A time in historic proportions,........

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