Zohran Mamdani, Luigi Mangione, and the gentle parenting of violence.

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After an extremist organization called Al-Awda gathered outside Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue explicitly to intimidate Jews interested in moving to Israel—“We need to make them scared,” one demonstrator repeatedly yelled, while others called their targets “Jewish pricks”—New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said exactly what he was supposed to.

Tal Fortgang is a contributing writer for The Dispatch and legal policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

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