Ahead of the New York mayoral primary, Jewish New Yorkers reacted with shock and disgust to misleading text messages that purported to come from a supporter of Zohran Mamdani, a critic of Israel. The sender claimed to be an Orthodox Jew mourning a friend killed in a recent terror attack, invoking personal loss to draw votes for Mamdani. Many recipients felt the messages exploited Jewish tragedy to falsely suggest wider Jewish support for Mamdani, raising concerns about the ethical implications of such tactics in political campaigning.
"I want to go a bit off script for a second because I'm Jewish, wear a kippah every day, and I support Zohran," the text said.
"It's trying to normalize that other Jews are voting for him, that he's for the Jewish people - even though everything he says is the opposite of that," said the voter.
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