There was a time when people took the New York Times seriously. That was long ago.
Back in the day, if the New York Times ran a story, you would assume they would have at least some basis for it. These days, the Times runs a picture of a baby with medical problems and claims it proves there’s hunger in Gaza. It crops out the picture of the kid’s chubby brother and ignores warnings from its editors that it’s being dishonest.
Still you would think that running a story headlined ‘Many Jewish Voters Back Mamdani. And Many Agree With Him on Gaza’ would be backed by some kind of data.
Any.kind of data beyond anecdotal interviews. How much do many turn out to be? 5.
Mr. Mamdani’s commanding victory in the Democratic primary for mayor alarmed many Jews who are concerned by his outspoken criticism of Israel. But he won the votes of many other Jewish New Yorkers
How many? What is the Times’ basis for this assertion beyond its anecdotal interviews with leftist supporters? Zero.
It is difficult to determine how many Jewish voters supported Mr. Mamdani because even in New York, the Jewish population is too small to be measured with precision by most polls. Neighborhoods with large numbers of Orthodox Jewish residents voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Cuomo. He also won other heavily Jewish areas like Riverdale in the Bronx, though outside of Orthodox neighborhoods, the Jewish population is generally not concentrated enough to allow analysis using precinct-level vote data.
Jewish populations are actually pretty concentrated. But the Times admits that the only actual data for Jewish voters says that they voted for Cuomo.
So it starts pounding the pulpit, waving its arms and arguing that since a lot of people voted for Mamdani… some must have been Jews. Also Mamdani campaigned with a Jewish guy so surely… Jews voted for him.
“Data from the ranked-choice voting process also shows that Mr. Mamdani was selected as an alternate choice by two-thirds of voters whose top choice was Brad Lander, the city comptroller and the highest-ranking Jewish official in city government, who made his identity a key part of his campaign and who cross-endorsed Mr. Mamdani during the primary.”
Brad Lander is another anti-Israel leftist.
Using Times logic though, Sen. Bernie Sanders is of Jewish ancestry, so Jews must have not only voted for him, but for AOC, whom he supports.
Jeffrey Lerner, Mr. Mamdani’s communications director and one of his many Jewish advisers, said in a statement that it was “no surprise that thousands of Jewish New Yorkers proudly cast their ballots for Zohran in the June primary, despite relentless fearmongering from Republicans and the billionaire class.”
Thousands. In a city with a Jewish population of 1.2 million. And that’s the best Mamdani’s comms guy can do.
The rest of the article is the Times’ Liam Stack interviewing a handful of leftist Mamdani backers of Jewish ancestry. How many? Five.
Yes, the New York Times interviewed 5 people of Jewish ancestry. One of them canvassed for the Mamdani campaign. This somehow becomes “many” in the New York Times headline.
The days when the paper had any credibility left are really long gone.
