Opinion

For those who watch politics and culture long enough, a certain trend emerges over time. Politics is like a pendulum swinging back and forth, left to right. Every time it seems like one side of the spectrum is dominating, the pendulum begins to swing back until the other side is on top. For the past decade, New York City has been firmly and squarely on the left side of the pendulum, but the signs are beginning to indicate a shift rightward.

Once the foremost authority on the prevention of anti-Semitism in the country, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has become a joke to anyone to the ideological right of Bernie Sanders. For years, the ADL has undermined its own credibility by becoming another tool in the Left’s political arsenal under the leadership of CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. This time, they’ve stepped on one too many toes in their quest to cleanse the world of dissenting opinions, and they’ve gotten on the radar of the richest man in the world.

This past week, NYS Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and State Senator Kristen Gonzalez hosted a town hall to discuss their legislation that aims to prohibit New York registered charities from funding Israeli organizations operating in Judea and Samaria. Hosted in what is quickly becoming a hub of anti-Semitic activism – CUNY Law – the town hall aimed to discuss the Not On Our Dime Act, a Radical Left piece of legislation.

CUNY has an anti-Semitism problem – and they don’t care. For years, CUNY Law has been a hotbed of Jew-hating activity, culminating in back-to-back commencement addresses from student-chosen speakers who proudly declared their hatred for the Jewish state. Recently, four Jewish professors have been retaliated against for complaining that their professional environment is hostile to their Zionism. Now, CUNY has hired someone who openly said to a United Nations panel that he wants “a free Palestine, from the River to the Sea.”

Our beautiful residential Eastern Queens neighborhood now has a massive migrant tent city om the Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital grounds. It was erected in the SNAP Senior Center parking lot on Hillside Ave in Bellerose, directly across the street from PS18 Winchester Elementary School, and a playground, a ballfield, and the Cross Island YMCA. This is where the city is housing 1,000 unvetted single male migrants.

The curvy windy road leading to the northern entrance of Efrat passes by an adjacent Arab town. The town extends from a nearby hill downwards and then ascends upwards almost reaching the Dagan and Tamar neighborhoods of Efrat. The town has no name, but it has schools, and nearby homes. Some of the buildings have not been completed as many of its window frames are empty revealing no residency within its walls. They are unoccupied structures.  Piles of garbage line the sides of a nearby road. It must be cleaned, so Efrat taxpayers have it removed at their expense. Given that these buildings are constructed illegally, it is safe to say there are no building codes observed. As the road approaches the security gate at entrance of Efrat, lanes narrow due to the excessive building, only allowing one lane, with traffic squeezing the city’s entrance adding to rush hour traffic.