What a Jew Learned From Meeting Zohran Mamdani

From our conversation, I have no reason to believe that Zohran Mamdani is antisemitic or remotely close to that. We disagreed, sometimes even sharply, on issues like Israel and policy, but disagreement is not hatred.

To my fellow Jews who are afraid: I hear you.

Our fear is not irrational, especially when our history is running deep in our consciousness. But we cannot let our fear turn us into people who refuse to speak, listen, meet, or even worse: people who demonize and mislabel our fellow citizens for their opinions.

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