Ilana Grossman

Marketing strategist, team leader. Brazilian by birth, New Yorker by choice. Music lover, literature snob. Views are my own. @ManhattanInst

[Roy K. Altman @RoyKAltman]

If someone had asked me before October 7th what I wanted to be remembered for, I would have said that I wanted people to know that I was a good father, husband, and friend; a fair judge; and a model American citizen.

But October 7th was a watershed moment in the history of Western civilization—not because of what happened thousands of miles away, but because of what happened here in our supposedly sacred institutions.

Hamas killed 1,200 innocent people. They butchered them in their bedrooms. They beheaded them at their dance parties. They blew them up clutching their families in their bomb shelters.

And yet, at my alma maters, in our universities, we Jews became the oppressors. Hamas raped dozens and dozens of Jewish women and girls, mothers together with their daughters. That's now clear beyond peradventure. You can go home tonight and watch the videotaped confessions of Hamas terrorists admitting to these unspeakable acts. They committed the crime of kinocide.

This was just announced in a recent report by an international NGO on May 12th of this year. It is the first documented use of kinocide as a weapon of war anywhere on the planet since Rwanda in the 1990s.

And yet, in our Western media outlets, we Jews became the aggressors.

[Daniel S. Loeb @DanielSLoeb1]

I would expect New Yorkers who are not dumb and have a shared love for the city and respect for each other to start demanding that @NYCMayor resign.

[Naya Lekht 🇮🇱 🇺🇸ניה לכת @LekhtNaya]

What you are witnessing here is the broken windows theory phenomenon in action. Because Jewish legacy and mainstream organizations have largely never dealt with antizionism, we are sitting in a broken and seriously vandalized house. Mamdani is not really the problem. He is the result of decades of avoiding the fight against antizionism for fear of alienating progressive allies; of decades of fearing offense and wanting to be loved. The result of an American Jewish community locked into a single, outdated way of interpreting Jew-hatred, unwilling, or simply not knowing how, to confront its most lethal contemporary form: antizionism. So what did you expect?. It was all left for the taking. And taken it has been. My latest for @JNS_org

https://t.co/COoLg5qRwF

[Ilana Grossman @ilanagr]

@NYCMayor go collect the garbage. That’s your job.

[Simon Wiesenthal Center @simonwiesenthal]

Mayor Mamdani did not simply express a personal political opinion. He used the authority, symbolism, and credibility of the mayor’s office to issue what amounted to an official public address declaring that the democratically elected leader of the world’s only Jewish state is a ‘war criminal’ who is ‘not welcome in New York City.’ That is a profound misuse of the office entrusted to him by all New Yorkers.

After acknowledging that New York City has no independent legal authority to execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant, the mayor nevertheless chose to transform that legal reality into a televised political spectacle. Respect for the separation of powers and the legal limits of public office is a bedrock of American democracy; those limits should not be treated as an inconvenience to be exploited for political theater.

Perhaps most telling was what the mayor chose to leave out. His address made no mention of Hamas or the October 7 massacre of innocent civilians. Instead, he delivered a sweeping moral indictment of Israel while erasing the terrorist atrocities that ignited this war. Appeals to universal humanity and justice ring hollow when they exclude the victims whose suffering does not fit a preferred political narrative.

This is no longer simply about Prime Minister Netanyahu. It reflects a broader pattern in which Mayor Mamdani repeatedly singles out Israel while using the prestige of his office to legitimize rhetoric that further isolates the Jewish state and deepens division here at home. At a time when Jewish New Yorkers are experiencing alarming levels of antisemitism, harassment and intimidation, they deserve a mayor who refrains from fomenting hatred against the world’s only Jewish country while maintaining the fiction that this is not anti-Jewish.

Throughout his campaign, Mayor Mamdani repeatedly insisted that his responsibility as mayor would be to focus on New York City and the issues affecting New Yorkers. New Yorkers elected him to make their neighborhoods safer, combat hate and unite a diverse city, not to conduct foreign policy or transform City Hall into a stage for ideological declarations about world leaders.

New Yorkers elected a mayor, not a prosecutor of foreign leaders. Mayor Mamdani should spend less time trying to demonize only one leader and one country from City Hall and more time protecting the New Yorkers he was elected to serve.

#Mamdani #MayorMamdani #Israel

[Ilana Grossman @ilanagr]

@Dory4congress 100%

[Dory for Congress @Dory4congress]

October 7 didn’t just change Israeli politics. It changed the identity of millions of Jews.

Some became more religious.
Some became more Zionist.
Some became politically homeless.
Some stopped apologizing.
Some stopped caring whether they were accepted by circles that once mattered to them.

Many of us are fundamentally different people than we were before October 7, 2023. That’s one of the defining Jewish stories of our generation.

[Peter Savodnik @petersavodnik]

I suspect most people who espouse that sort of antisemitic drivel do not think they’re antisemitic. They imagine they’re good people, ordinary people, standing up against inhumanity. Their antisemitism, like that of most antisemites across the ages, is fueled by a genuine conviction that they are a force for good — punishing Christ killers or ensuring racial purity or, more recently, combatting “genocide.”

In the moment (and “the moment” may last quite awhile), the antisemitic worldview makes sense — if you ignore all the contravening evidence and history. In fact, there is an odd, hermetic logic to the Jew-hatred that will persist as long as the Jew-hater is permitted a modicum of blindness.

The question is not whether all these people have always been “secretly antisemitic,” but why they are predisposed (probably unconsciously) to antisemitism.

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

Every single day, we remember.

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

Every American needs to listen to this entire speech. Not just clips. It is phenomenal. Thank you @SecRubio for recognizing the severity of the problem and most importantly, working to combat it.

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

I do not say this lightly: As a new and virulent strain of antisemitism spreads via algorithmic media and artificial intelligence, my life's work an an historian has been a failure. What now? A new essay with John-Clark Levin for @TheFP

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

With regard to "Judeo Christian":

The 10 Commandments are Jewish.

The great stories of the Old Testament are Jewish.

The Jews developed the idea of subsidiarity as the alternative to tyranny and slavery.

The Jews established the cultural preconditions for the rise of universal literacy.

The fate of Israel at the hands of the Islamists is the fate of the West.

This rising tide of anti-semitism sickens me. Those of you engaging in it for your oh-so-moral reasons—you're despicable.

And remember, you proud "Christians" objecting in all your purity to the term:

Christ Himself was a Jew.

[Ilana Grossman @ilanagr]

@benshapiro Mazel Tov Ben! Great news!

[Rabbi Linda Goldstein (🇵🇸🍉I/P Commentary) @realrabbilinda]

Mamdani: Jewish, Italian, and Irish immigrants who are here for more than one generation are no longer immigrants.

Also Mamdani: Jews that have been in Israel for 2,000 years (1,000 years longer than Islam existed) are colonizers.

[Ilana Grossman @ilanagr]

Juiz ladrao!!!!

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is a lie. It’s all a lie.

They lied about Platner — they all knew he was scum and kinda knew he had more skeletons in his closet but hid it for as long as they could.

They lied about many other things too. And they will keep lying for as long as they get away with it.

These guys aren’t a rebellion against a corrupt elite. They’re the same corrupt elite cosplaying as rebels — mostly by organizing their politics against the Jews.

Sorry, the Zionists.

[Councilwoman Inna Vernikov @InnaVernikov]

Your father writes books justifying terrorism and your mother is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. You hold nauseating views about the West, and you still got elected as Mayor of the best city in the world. This country gave you everything. Go kick rocks you ungrateful, confused nepo baby. God bless America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

What an appalling speech the Mayor of New York delivered for the 250th anniversary of the nation.

Sadly, it reflects the view of America propagated for years by Howard Zinn and his like-minded colleagues in the universities and believed by armies of the young: a dark, oppressive country where common people are denigrated by tyrants and oligarchs, where immigrants are treated with contempt, where those with “soft hands” hold the wealth created by those with dirty hands.

No sensible person would claim that our country is without flaws, but the relentlessly negative picture painted by Mayor Mamdani is just absurd.

And it is the fruit of the Marxism that, sadly, is all the rage today.

[Elisha Wiesel @ElishaWiesel]

My father raised me with Jewish observance. Shma at night, Kiddush on Friday night. But the earliest memories I have of reading a sacred text with my father aren't of Genesis, or the Exodus from Egypt, or even of my Bar Mitzvah parsha.

They're of reading the Declaration of Independence with him every July 4th.

He would read them aloud with the same musical, passionate voice that compelled the attention of listeners at state affairs or class day ceremonies. We were a small family of four, often in those early years with another family we were close to, but we felt like a jury listening to the case that he was making in the highest of courts.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal!" he would insist, his eyes meeting ours -- and then pause, waiting to see if any of us would dare to challenge him. I didn't understand many of the specific accusations that the Founding Fathers were laying at Britain's feet, but I knew by the end that my father believed America had the protection of divine Providence, and that he pledged his life, fortune and honor to this country that had taken him in, that had given him a home when he was stateless.

To our fellow Americans, Shabbat Shalom and happy 250th anniversary of these blessed United States of America.

[Ilana Grossman @ilanagr]

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[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

Let's be clear. The Communist Control Act is still on the books although it is essentially a dead letter at this point. But there was a time such things were taken seriously and actually enforced by our security agencies. And so they should again.

The DSA is a Marxist revolutionary organization and should be disqualified from office in the United States, full stop. Any question about what they believe and what their goals are can be cleared up with their own words about the destruction of the West and America, not to mention their utterly insane social theories. People need to take this very seriously. Go watch some videos from the DSA conventions over the past couple of years. It's actually shocking that these lunatics are now steering a major party in the United States.

I really recommend everyone follow Stu Smith of the Manhattan Institute (@thestustustudio), nobody has chronicled and archived the DSA better. It's all there. And it's insane.

Darializa herself should not be seated in the House because of her own personal support for the destruction of the West and this country. Speaker Johnson should take up the issue based on grave concerns regarding her potential fidelity to to the oath of office. I've said this multiple times now.

There is a real question on the table here -- does the oath of office actually mean something, or is it just boilerplate? If the oath is a meaningful component of qualifying for elected office, then it's very difficult to see how any DSA member can hold office in good faith.

It's really that simple. And it needs to be litigated sooner rather than later.

Once again -- the Constitution is not a suicide pact. We are under no obligation to enable revolutionaries who openly hate our nation and welcome them into our government as valid good-faith political actors.

To the contrary; a functional society has every obligation to stop them before they gain power.

Marxist revolutions only end one way. And we have a very limited window to stop them.