Republican gubernatorial candidate Elise Stefanik ripped into Gov. Kathy Hochul Sunday evening for endorsing “raging antisemite” Zohran Mamdani for mayor as she accredited an award from a outstanding Jewish workforce.
“We all know we’re at a tipping level when a very powerful town on this planet elects a raging antisemite, defund the police, tax-hiking Communist as mayor,” Stefanik mentioned all the way through the once a year gala of the Zionist Group of The us.
She alleged that Mamdani vowed to arrest Top Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and mentioned his “circle of relatives historical past and political ideology is steeped in sympathy for suicide bombers and terrorists.”
“A mayor who mentioned Hamas will have to now not lay down their hands. A mayor who campaigned with the unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 International Industry Heart Bombing that killed New Yorkers. This, from the one who will lead a town with over 1 million Jewish other people. And this mayor was once recommended through none rather than the weakest and Worst Governor in The us, Kathy Hochul,” Stefanik raged.
Rep. Stefanik, the Space Republican Convention chairperson, was once additionally recommended on the match through billionaire Miriam Adelson, whose overdue husband, Sheldon, based the Las Vegas Sands on line casino and hotel corporate.
She vowed to not stand silent whilst the mayor-elect and participants of the Democratic Socialists of The us “spew hatred” towards Jews.
“On the very second that New Yorkers had been on the lookout for power and ethical readability, our vulnerable Governor Kathy Hochul, the Worst Governor in The us, confirmed weak spot and recommended the jihadist for Mayor. She propelled him to this place of business, hanging each and every Jewish New Yorker in danger,” Stefanik mentioned.
“In actual fact she threw New Yorkers of this nice town below the bus all on account of her abysmal polling,” she added.
Stefanik mentioned she is waging an ethical struggle in her bid for governor, now not simply an financial one towards New York’s top taxes and spending. Tackling antisemitism, she mentioned, is a core component of her marketing campaign, declaring that New York is house to extra Jews than anyplace outdoor Israel, and reported acts of antisemitism are at file highs.
The congresswoman — who introduced her bid for governor remaining week claimed it was once “no twist of fate” that the morning after Mamdani was once elected, a swastika was once painted outdoor the Magen David yeshiva in Brooklyn. Hochul and Mamdani each condemned the incident.
“That’s what Kathy Hochul’s New York looks as if. New Yorkers deserve a pace-setter who will rise up unequivocally and say: NOT ON MY WATCH.”
She claimed that Hochul, a Democrat, has allowed unhealthy antisemitism to flourish.
“Kathy Hochul hasn’t simply allowed this downward spiral into unhealthy antisemitism — she has blessed it, signed it, embraced it, and recommended it,” Stefanik mentioned.
“When Jewish New Yorkers wanted Kathy Hochul’s management probably the most, she bent the knee to Commie Mamdani and allowed the full-blown takeover of the Democrat Celebration through the Antisemitic Socialists.”
“That’s not management,” she mentioned. “It’s weak spot. It’s give up.”
Stefanik won the ZOA’s Maccabee Warrior Award for fighting antisemitism. The Jewish vacation of Hanukkah honors the Maccabees’ a success riot towards the Seleucid Empire and rededication of the 2d Temple in Jerusalem.
Her wondering all the way through Space hearings on campus antisemitism brought on the ouster or pressured resignations of a number of Ivy League presidents, together with on the College of Pennsylvania and Harvard.
She additionally took a second to honor New York natives Omer Neutra and Itay Chen, who had been murdered all the way through Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 invasion of Israel, with their our bodies taken hostage in Gaza.
The Put up reached out to Hochul and Mamdani for remark.
