When I was a lawyer at Gibson Dunn in D.C., we took our summer associates to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. A survivor spoke to us and said something that stuck with me:
Lawyers need to know the holocaust did not begin with camps. It began when Jews were removed from institutions - above all, legal institutions. Judges stripped of their robes. Lawyers disbarred. Then, when law-groups were Judenrein, they codified laws that made discrimination systematic and "legal."
First, you remove the Jews from the institutions. Then, Jews can be discriminated against without representation.
On Monday, Mayor Mamdani announced his 18-member Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee was promised to be "truly reflective of New York City."
Not one of the 18 is Jewish.
Not one Jewish attorney, former judge, or law professor - in a city where one in eight residents is Jewish and even Justice John Leventhal, recommended by the State's Chief Judge, was rejected.
It is estimated that over 50% of the New York bar is Jewish. That means there is a 0.0004% chance of no Jews being selected to the Committee.
Mamdani’s marginalization of Jews has been ongoing, and few voices on the Left have spoken up.
On Day 1, Mamdani revoked the IHRA antisemitism definition (top priority); he changed the NYPD guidance protecting houses of worship, eliminated Jews from the City's immigrant-heritage map, called for the arrest of the prime minister of the only Jewish state, and now created a Judenrein Judiciary Committee.
My grandmother, Leah, survived Nazi Germany. Before the laws, before the violence, she told me how she was pushed out of her high school groups. Then, once excluded from all activities, she was bullied and marginalized.
We are already seeing Step 2 in NYC. Two weeks ago, on a Jewish Holiday, two men were stabbed outside Upper West Side synagogues - one wearing a kippah- and yesterday, Jewish students were attacked. Every 26 hours, there is a hate crime against Jews in NYC.
In NYC, there is a concerted effort to disappear Jews from public life and leadership.
No one on the Left is speaking out. If this discrimination was happening to any other group, the chorus would be deafening.
To be clear, Jews will find a way. Many are already taking their talents elsewhere. When white-shoe firms shut Jewish lawyers out, they built firms that now dominate. Cardozo, Louis Marshall, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg all found a way despite discrimination.
But NYC will be worse off without us. A city government that is judenrein - cleansed of Jews – does not just hurt the Jews, but hurts the city.
The tragedy is not just that Jews were left out of the institutions. It is that the institutions were left without the Jews.
If you see this and have not yet spoken out, I encourage you to do so.
That noise you hear off in the distance are the collective shrieks of the worst people in media watching their conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s murder go up in flames as hard evidence was released to the public in the Preliminary murder trial hearings.
Here is what we now know:
- Robinsons was on campus 4 times the day of the murder, captured by 20 minutes of security footage.
- Security footage of Robinson breaking onto the roof with a backpack and laying in a sniper probe position over the TPUSA event
- Footage of Robinson fleeing the scene with his backpack
- Medical examiner confirms: single gunshot wound to the neck killed Charlie.
- TPUSA provided all HD video clips to law enforcement— none hidden or withheld
- Tyler Robinson turned himself into law enforcement and confessed to the murder in multiple messages, chats, notes and verbally to parents and law enforcement
- DNA evidence of Robinson & his fury lover on weapon & screw driver used in the murder
- Security footage of Robinson’s vehicle and license plate all over campus on day of the murder
- Robinson’s defense has access to all evidence, objects to none of it. It’s real.
The defense in short has no defense.
This madness must stop. Wild evidence-free speculation only serves to help Charlie’s murderer and poison the minds of a potential Jury pool and destroy the movement Kirk built. Make no peace with evil. Enough.