REPORTS CONFIRM JEWISH NEW YORKERS
ARMING UP BEFORE MEMDANI TAKES OVER

BELLEVUE, WA – Published reports confirm that many Jewish New Yorkers have been arming themselves in worrisome anticipation of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani—described by the New York Post as a "Muslim radical socialist"—taking office and opening a floodgate of hatred toward the city's Jewish population.

Even The Times of Israel is reporting how Jewish gun owners, firearms instructors and security professionals in the Big Apple are witnessing a major surge in demand for firearms training, and applications for concealed carry permits. Anti-Semitic rhetoric has led to increased violence against Jews across the United States.

The alarm is sounding, and Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) is paying attention. JPFO says it is hardly surprising that, when faced with the kind of social threat facing them, New York City's Jewish residents are falling back on the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment as a preventive measure.

Mamdani's election represents a bizarre shift in American politics, and it is most alarming to New York City's Jewish population which, ironically, has never historically provided strong support for the right to keep and bear arms, despite the fact that a significant number of leaders in the gun rights movement are of Jewish heritage. In addition, gun ownership is prevalent in Israel, especially since the October 7 attack. But in New York City, that scenario is changing. JFPO doesn't view this as an exercise of hypocrisy, but rather a dramatic onset of common sense.

A separate New York Post report revealed the Democratic Socialists of America agenda they want Mamdani to follow, and it is pure anti-Israel, and thus New York Jews feel threatened. The Times of Israel noted how more than 1,000 rabbis and cantors from across the U.S. signed a letter opposing Mamdani and "the political normalization of anti-Zionism." The same report revealed how New York Police licensing data shows a 14-percent increase in carry permit applications after Mamdani won the Democratic primary.

Nothing so clearly illustrates the degree of dread among New York's Jewish population as the spike in concealed carry applications and interest in training courses, which one instructor in Brooklyn told the Times of Israel "includes Jewish doctors, lawyers, plumbers and even rabbis."

JPFO said all of this leads to an inescapable conclusion, that New York's Jewish population will not flee, will not be disenfranchised and will not back down.

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