ZOHRAN MAMDANI, the self-described “democratic socialist” poised to become New York’s next mayor, doesn’t talk much about Israel on the campaign trail. He focuses on housing, policing, and wages – the city’s pressing local issues. Yet his long record of fervent anti-Zionist activism hangs in the air – troubling less for what it reveals about his platform than for what it reveals about the political culture that now embraces him.
