“Multiculturalism”

Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order in his first day as mayor on Thursday revoking all orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams after his indictment on federal corruption charges, including two that he had touted as support for Israel.

One of the revoked orders, signed last month by Mr. Adams, barred city agencies from boycotting or divesting from Israel. Another that the former mayor signed last June adopted an expansive definition of antisemitism that equates some forms of anti-Israel criticism, like opposition to Israel’s ethnically Jewish character, with antisemitism.

Mr. Mamdani did not revoke the creation of the city’s office to combat antisemitism, which Mr. Adams created in May.

A sure sign of a city’s decline is the election of a Khan, Chow or Mamdani.

If you want proof that multiculturalism is a lie, look no further than the plight of British Jews. Targeted on our streets; threatened and spat upon as they go to and from synagogue; their children’s schools hidden behind prison-like security; seldom able to open their communal newspapers without seeing a report of a fanatic calling for the slaughter of fellow Jews in Israel.

This is Jewish life in the UK today. Only part of it, of course, for there are also the sweet hopes of Rosh Hashanah, the sukkah-building and celebrations of Sukkot, and the lights and latkes of Chanukah. But whatever their level of involvement in communal life, few British Jews live their lives unaware of the grim mood music.

LONDON — Now we know what globalizing the intifada looks like. In Manchester last week, a rabbi addressed his congregation in a robe stained with blood. Hours earlier, on Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day, a jihadi terrorist rammed a car into worshippers at the gates of a synagogue before going on a stabbing spree. By the time officers shot the attacker, two were dead and four more injured, some from accidental police fire.