We find something very disconcerting about the insistence by some New York City residents of Jewish ethnicity and/or descent that 2025 Democratic Party Mayoral Nominee, Zohran “Kwame” Mamdani, the Ugandan-born Punjabi-Indian-descended New York State Assemblyman, make a special agenda pledge and priority of publicly and vehemently denouncing Antisemitism, when it is patently unarguable that the greatest and the most dangerous problem of Ethnic Hatred is Anti-Black and Anti-African and Anti-African American Hatred by Conservative White-American Citizens, including the Half-German and the Half-Scottish-descended President Donald John Trump (See “Actor Says Mamdani Not Doing Enough to Address Antisemitism, Feels ‘Uncomfortable’ Admitting He’s Jewish” FOX News 7/15/25).
Now, this is a very strategically sticky question to deal with, being that by and large, it can scarcely be gainsaid that the overwhelming majority of New York City Jews, predominantly of Post-World War II European background, are Ethnic Whites who fully share in the privileges and the prejudices of White-American Society in its relationship with the most historically seminal ethnic-minority people hereabouts the United States of America, namely, Diasporic/Diasporan Africans and Continental Africans of Indigenous African Descent and Heritage.
To test for and/or firmly establish the validity of the foregoing statement of Empirical Observation, one only needs to read and critically analyze that portion of the globally renowned and celebrated “Diary of Anne Frank,” particularly vis-a-vis that entry where the 15- or 16-year-old author-protagonist disdainfully likens the extortionate oppression of European Jews in the 1930s, in the Hitler-controlled and dominated nations of Holland, Germany and Austria, just to name a handful, to the treatment of “The Negroes of America.”
What is immitigably disconcerting and, if I recall accurately, the reference to “The Negroes of America” recurs several times in the Diary, is the fact that Anne Frank is here referencing the preceding phrase a little more than a half-century after the official abolition of chattel slavery and the statutory granting of citizenship status to African Americans, as a result, at least partly, because of the recognition of both the Humanity of the Continental Africa-descended “Negro American.” Yet, absolutely nowhere in Ms. Frank’s Diary does the author decry the wanton depravity of the unspeakably horrific treatment of Black/Indigenous African-Descended Americans. It is almost as if all that matters to this obviously brilliant adolescent Jewish female is the dignity of European Jewry.
It is almost as if the kind of abject human indignity being perpetrated against African Americans in the 1930s was perfectly normal and fully deserving of the most degraded species of humanity in the Modern World and Era. But what I really wanted to highlight here, more than anything else, is the patently and scandalously bizarre reality of the fact that Arab-Jewish Americans like the Mamdani Critic by the name of Ari’el Stachel, described as “a stage actor,” do not seem to have any problem with the fact that President Trump was sponsored and staunchly backed into imperious occupancy of the White House by a political establishment, to wit, the United States’ Republican Party, which is also globally renowned for being the Headquarters of the Neo-Nazi Fanatics and Ideologues, whose accession to the putatively most powerful citadel of military brutalities, has also meant the precipitous reversal and the decline of the civil and the human rights of the overwhelming majority of African Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans and, of course, as has historically been the case, Lower and Working-Class Americans, often morally and politically hoodwinked into buying into the strategic hoax of being at least vicariously as privileged as the proverbial topmost and the wealthiest One-Percent almost exclusively White Americans who imperiously lord it over the rest of us “Wretched of the Earth,” in classical Fanonian philosophical parlance.
Which is why it can only come as nothing short of the scandalously grotesque for Arab-Jewish critics like Ari’el Stachel to so cavalierly scapegoat Soon-to-Be-Mayor Zohran “Kwame” Mamdani – oh, yes, his middle name is Kwame, very likely after Ghana’s first postcolonial leader, Kwame Nkrumah – as the prototypical or the archetypal “Bete Noir” of the historical Jewish Odyssey. It is also flabbergastingly strange for a country or mega-country whose greatest and most favorite global trading partner is “Communist China” and bosom friend is “Socialist Russia,” to so farcically pretend as if a 33-year-old Mayoral Nominee Mamdani, a self-proclaimed “Democratic Socialist,” was the greatest and the most imminent threat and danger to kleptocratic capitalist vampires of the US Republican Party, for the most part. hermetically chaperoned by an Imperial President Donald John Trump.
As well, isn’t it quixotically comedic that a DEI-Tariff-addicted President Trump has had absolutely no qualms in becoming bosom friends with “Imperial Dynastic Socialist Dictators” like North-Korea’s President Kim Jong Un and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin? Now, tell me about it, Mr. Donald John Zelensky; but, somehow, find it to be heretically insufferable to deal with a democratically and a legitimately elected Anti-Poverty Revolutionary Warrior? Spare me some change from your Crypto-Kleptocracy, Big Brother Donnie!
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
SUNY-Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York
E-mail: [email protected]
