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.”
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.
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 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.
What a racist school
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.
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.
I mean it would be a protest but the fact that it’s religion based and narrowly targeted makes it criminal harassment with a hate crime enhancement.
It is supremacist based
Religions are almost exclusively supremacist, spirituality less so but still they can be abused.
You can be supermaist without being religious. The argument of ancestral right to the land is more used to justify the colonization of Palestine than religion
Yes this just happens to be specifically because he’s Muslim.
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.
Crisis actors /s
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Legit 10 years ago I would have thought that a statement like that was racist. In light of what is going on today, I have a very different perspective.
Part of the zionist project is to make their ideology inseparable from Judaism and ethnic Jewish identity. To me it seems dangerous to conflate zionism with Jewishness as you’re basically playing into their hands.
Hooooo boy
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.
TF? When did Jews become the racists??
It’s zionists. They’ve always been racist.
And mostly Evangelical Christians
Definitely both
It turns out that the problem has never been racism, but who is allowed to dish it out.
Or to control who society punishes rather. Racists are always going to be able to dish out more racism. Nothing we can do about that sadly.
It’s antisemitic to conflate Zionists with Jews. Don’t be antisemitic.
Ok, but that doesn’t really work as a sentence or a question
Every organized religion perpetuates bigotry.
hey that would be difficult to do as a Sikh, look them up sometime their history is interesting and surprisingly short
And yet there’s still Sikh terrorists.
Every religion produces extremists and people who try to twist the religion to justify their existing hate and politics. It’s a constant of humanity.
there are atheist terrorists. terrorists are more complicated than a video game spawner. they are produced when people have contradictions that can’t be resolved without violence
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
