Nearly 500 rabbis have signed this open letter against "rising anti-Zionism and its political normalization throughout our nation," explicitly citing Zohran Mamdani. What these rabbis are telling us is they do not care about 30-40% of American Jews. 🧵 1/ docs.google.com/document/u/0…
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Recent polls, including ones that attempted to quantify the Jewish vote for Mamdani & use of the word genocide, continue to show that nearly 30-40% of Am Jews are not threatened by anti-Zionism, but sympathetic to it. That number rises when accounting for the 18-35 demographic.2/
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This means there are likely people in these shuls that disagree with this message. It certainly means that many children & grandchildren of their congregants are anti-Zionists. Rather than face this schism in their communities, these rabbis have decided to project a false unity.
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It also introduces a logical fallacy: that one must agree with them on Zionism in order to "accept them as Jews." Why? Mamdani has made a very public effort to talk to NY Jews & speak to their concerns. Why do they think they have the right to compel ideological discipline? 4/
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Cosgrove insists his Zionism is a matter of Jewish identity. This is a dangerous argument, opening up all Jews to anti-Israel violence, while affirming the logic used in right-wing legal "religious liberty" assaults on universities jewishcurrents.org/a-dangero… jewishcurrents.org/the-tangl…

The Tangled Knot of Anti-Zionist Violence

Doubling down on the conflation of Zionism and Judaism won’t stop violent attacks.

jewishcurrents.org

Oct 21, 2025 · 7:52 PM UTC

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They call on interfaith partners to support them, knowing full well that they are creating a bar that cannot be met by most Muslim partners. They will then predictably complain about isolation. 6/
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This letter evinces an unwillingness to engage productively with a very sizable portion of the J community & w/ the reality, confirmed by HR groups, that Israel is committing genocide. Instead, these rabbis project their anxieties outward & demand fealty. It won't work long term.
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