Source: Unpopular Front
by John Ganz
“It is my duty as a political writer to fire off a take in the wake of an election, so here goes: Were it not for his positions on Israel and Palestine, I don’t think Zohran Mamdani would be mayor. There was a world, and it existed a few years ago, where the opposite would’ve been the case. I know the conventional wisdom is that American voters care about foreign relations, and it’s especially not supposed to matter in local elections, but Mamdani was the only candidate who represented a clear ‘No’ to the genocide in Gaza. … Although I’m much closer to Mamdani than Cuomo on Palestine, I remain a little nervous about the introduction of a foreign ethnic conflict into our city.” (11/05/25)