Zohran Mamdani’s radical New York: Jew-free judicial panels and government run grocery stores
In a city where almost half the lawyers are Jewish, Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed zero Jews to a key judicial advisory council. Now he’s pushing government-run grocery stores that promise 30% discounts funded by the public.
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Tonight on The Ezra Levant Show: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's vision for government-run grocery stores collides with fresh allegations of antisemitism and central planning.
Zohran Mamdani is not just another American mayor with big ideas. He’s a radical with a record of singling out Jews and a clear appetite for left-wing social experiments.
In a city where roughly half the lawyers are Jewish, Mamdani just announced an 18-member judicial advisory council without a single Jewish appointee. The odds of that happening by chance are one in 250,000. That isn’t oversight. It’s deliberate exclusion.
Israel-hating Mamdani shuns Jews from important judicial advisory committee: 'Deeply disappointed' https://t.co/mDPyKtMT4s pic.twitter.com/WFDXcvV4rF
— New York Post (@nypost) July 28, 2026
Jewish legal organizations, the Queens Brandeis Association, Jewish Lawyers Guild, Brooklyn Brandeis Society, and Bronx County Jewish Bar Association, have united in a joint letter accusing him of orchestrating a purge from an essential civic process. Mamdani claims the panel is “truly reflective of New York City.”
A coalition of New York City’s Jewish bar associations is accusing Mamdani of excluding Jews from his new Advisory Committee on the Judiciary.
— Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) July 28, 2026
In a letter, the attorneys say the omission follows a “troubling pattern” that has left many Jewish New Yorkers feeling marginalized.… pic.twitter.com/NVPw7lH7MR
This is part of a pattern. Mamdani has repeatedly denounced Israel and even threatened to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while remaining silent on dictators in China and terror regimes in Iran and Qatar. The focus is always on Israel. That level of fixation rarely exists without deeper antisemitism, and as so often happens, a parallel strain of anti-Americanism.
But even this record pales beside his latest announcement: Soviet-style, government-run grocery stores.
Mamdani promised a network of municipal supermarkets selling food at a supposed 30 percent discount. He held up bananas costing about 20 cents each as proof of the idea. Fresh tropical fruit, picked thousands of kilometres away and sold for 20 cents, is not a miracle of city hall. It is the miracle of global supply chains and free enterprise.
Mayor Mamdani Holds Press Conference on Municipal Grocery Store Announcement
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) July 27, 2026
https://t.co/520B9LtowT
Grocery stores operate on margins of about 2 percent. The only way to deliver a 30 percent discount is with taxpayer subsidies. Consider a $20 steak. How does it become $14? Someone has to absorb the missing $6. That someone is the taxpayer.
Mamdani’s own plan makes this explicit: the city will cover rent and property taxes, fund the build-out, and then provide direct subsidies so food can be sold below cost. There is no free lunch.
New York already has one of the most competitive grocery markets in the world, roughly 1,000 full-size stores and 10,000 bodegas. If 30 percent profits existed, those competitors would already have undercut each other. They haven’t, because the margins aren’t there.
When government abolishes the price signal, other forms of rationing take over: long lines, early-morning rushes, insider access, and black-market reselling. Entrepreneurial New Yorkers will clean out the discounted steaks and resell them. Bodega owners, many of them immigrants, will be forced to compete against stores that don’t pay market rent or cover their own losses, while subsidizing that competition through their taxes.
This has been tried before. Kansas City launched a similar project with the same promises. The result was empty shelves and demands for more funding.
Mamdani has never run a business. Yet he is prepared to spend tens of millions, $70 million in capital costs alone, a figure that will almost certainly rise, on a project whose first store is not scheduled to open until the end of 2029. Three years to open a grocery store.
New Yorkers are about to receive an expensive education in supply and demand, one they will pay for whether they shop at these stores or not.
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COMMENTS
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Vinko Mioc commented 2026-07-29 16:58:23 -0400Great Job Ezra, appreciate you keeping me updated with the truth. 🤝👍
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Tony Salotti commented 2026-07-29 08:46:35 -0400New York voters are totally clueless . -
Susan Ashbrook commented 2026-07-28 23:30:24 -0400Ezra, you are correct… there is no such thing as a free lunch. Someone has to pay for what others take for free. I know from working in the industry that there are no 30% margins in the world of groceries, so “other peoples’ money” will be forced to foot the bill. It just doesn’t work in the long run.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2026-07-28 22:44:12 -0400In a recent YouTube commentary, Victor Davis Hanson reminded viewers that Mamdani’s actually a red diaper nepo baby, born to privilege. Apparently his family, one of the many that Idi Amin booted out of Uganda, has a mansion on the shore of Lake Victoria. And, yet, he claims to be on the side of the “poor and oppressed”.
He reminds me of a certain Canadian political party leader, someone who recently got his job. -
Lance Humphries commented 2026-07-28 22:40:04 -0400“Street teams”. You mean Nazi Brown Shirts?
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Jerry Purvis commented 2026-07-28 22:17:30 -0400If the city grocery stores undercut the bodegas by 30 percent, how long will these small shops stay in business? Don’t expect low prices once the city is the only game in town.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2026-07-28 20:55:15 -0400Communism and socialism appeal to idealistic idiots. Both systems have failed every time they’ve been implemented. And every time it does, the useful idiots and their mentors say it wasn’t implemented correctly. What is a correct implementation of communism or socialism? They can’t say. Since both systems don’t take into account human nature, they always fail. Capitalism, on the other hand, uses human nature to benefit the majority of citizens.
