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Zohran Mamdani led a protest in New York City in 2021, calling for an end to US aid to Israel. (photo: Javier Soriano in NY Post 10/31/25) |
New Yorkers' electing Islamist-Marxist, Zohran Mamdani to the mayoralty of New York City last night is a bookend to another milestone in NYC Muslim supremacist Jew-hatred. On today's date November 5th 1990, 35-years ago, Egyptian-Islamist, El Sayid Nosair assassinated Israeli Parliamentarian Rabbi Meir Kahane the NYC-raised founder of the Jewish Defense League following a talk the Jewish leader delivered at a NYC Marriott hotel.
The Jewish Defense League, which served as a deterrent to violence against Jews on US streets - would also counter-protest anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hate protests on US streets. The JDL'ers own street protests to free Jews persecuted for practicing their faith in the Soviet Union contributed to the Soviet government opening their gates for the Jews to emigrate, which led to the ultimate opening of emigration and the end of Communism in the Soviet Union.
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Rabbi Meir Kahane's Jewish Defense League rallied for police protections, deploying civic patrols and retaliatory deterrents. |
How ironic that within 35-years of an Islamist's slaying Rabbi Kahane, who was loathed by Islamists for standing up for Jews' rights against Muslim persecution (as well as confronting their slanderous street protests against Israel) that New York Democratic voters would elect a practicing Islamo-Marxist who directed anti-Israel protests in the US himself - to oversee and manage New York City entirely!
Within days, a trial is scheduled for another Muslim anti-Zionist, Loay Alnaji, who is charged in the death of Jewish-American, Paul Kessler in Los Angeles 2023. Mr. Kessler, 69, brought a flag to counter-protest a vitriolic Islamist protest of the Jewish State, not too dissimilar to the anti-Israel protests that helped bring Zohran Mamdani to prominence and power. Lacking a Jewish Defense League-like counter-protest, such as Stand with Us used to organize, Mr. Kessler and his colleague, Jonathan Oswaks, came without adequate deterrent protection.
Within days, a trial is scheduled for another Muslim anti-Zionist, Loay Alnaji, who is charged in the death of Jewish-American, Paul Kessler in Los Angeles 2023. Mr. Kessler, 69, brought a flag to counter-protest a vitriolic Islamist protest of the Jewish State, not too dissimilar to the anti-Israel protests that helped bring Zohran Mamdani to prominence and power. Lacking a Jewish Defense League-like counter-protest, such as Stand with Us used to organize, Mr. Kessler and his colleague, Jonathan Oswaks, came without adequate deterrent protection.
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| Paul Kessler (on left) died after Loay Alnaji (seated on right) struck him in the face with a bullhorn he protested Israel with at a Thousand Oaks, Calif demonstration by the Islamic Society of Simi Valley |
We spoke with former Kahanist, Jewish Defense Leaguers, Mr. Shannon Taylor and Ms. Fern Sidman in NYC in 2018. They assess the state of anti-Semitism from the far-right and
the far-left. How will pro-Israel and pro-Jewish demonstrators be organized to counter the inevitably emboldened anti-Israel demonstrations that will grow under the Mamdani regime in NYC?
New Yorkers' electing Mamdani occurred during this week of Kristalnacht and the assassinations Rabbi Meir Kahane and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin. Mr. Shannon Taylor, an acolyte of Rabbi Kahane, recalled in video the context of the event and its aftermath. He assesses the Kahane and Jewish Defense League legacy in Jewish leadership today.
Recorded November, 2018 in Manhattan.
Question: This is the 28th commemoration of the night of the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane. What was the event like to your recollection?
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| Mr. Shannon Taylor, eyewitness to Islamist assassination of JDL leader Rabbi Meir Kahane |
But every Jew in that place hugged him. They hugged Arafat, the same ones who condemned Kahane and wouldn't have him in B'nai Zion-invited Arafat in the B'nai Zion when he was on that tour. He was uninvited to Avery Fisher Hall and after I challenged him, Rudy Guiliani (to his credit and he got credit from all over the world for this because I put the story in the Post enough the New York Times) Rudy Giuliani summarily threw him out he left with a whimper.
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| Florence Schwartz (left) and Izzy Katz (right) comforts Rabbi Meir Kahane, whom Islamist, El Sayyid Nosair shot through the neck at the east-side Marriott in Manhattan in the first Islamist terror attack on US soil. Police had no translators for his Arabic documents containing plans to blow-up the WTC. (Photo: Shannon Taylor) |
And on Kahane's assassination, I want you to
know the police station was no more than
five minutes away- but it took 20 minutes
for them to get there. And the detectives have since been
dishonorably investigated. And they
commingled all the evidence the
Homeland Security took away every
evidence that was relevant. I went
to Jeff Sessions who was the head of the
FBI who believed me it was a conspiracy. As did the A.D.A. Greenbaum from
Morgenthau's office. And Sessions was
fired by Clinton because he didn't want to
have anything to do with fighting
terrorists. And then New York was
supposed to be a terrorist-ridden city ,
so they didn't publicize anything the
stories died away and Nosair was
acquitted the first time!"
Question: What was the scene like?
"Well, picture that synagogue today in Pittsburgh. Picture a guy in a civilian crowd well nobody has a gun (except my friend Ralph Elder who had just left). And in comes a gunman and shoots him right square in the face where I was standing. And I was taken away from security so this could be done. So you wonder about the security, you wonder about the enforcement. But Kahane was so strong and so healthy at 58 - 10-years younger than Meir when Meir died that his heart beat for another hour.
But the same Jewish doctors who couldn't save him - saved his assassinator, Nosair.
And Nosair said it was a Jew killed him, it was a Jew! And counselor a Jew came to
defend him when Ron Kuby who was not a
Jew but pretended to be a Jew and a
member of the JDL. It was the farce of farces - on one side were all of Al Qaeda . Everybody involved in the bombing in 9/11 was there protesting in
favor of the assassination of Kahane. And
everybody who was a righteous Jew was
on the other side protesting them!
And when the sentence came down that acquitted the murderer of the murder that everybody knew he did, even Schlessinger, my mother-in-law's opera mate, who I had a sit next to the judge who never got certiorari after that to stay on longer, he said the verdict make no sense and because of the evidence I had of the gun that I saw Nosair had (I took a picture of he spent another year and a half in jail) and so they had the evidence when in '93 the World Trade Center blew up the first time to keep him there after that event and then read in Arabic what they should have read in the beginning. It' still didn't help them for 9/11. No matter how many times I warn the mayor and his staff and them and the FBI and so on they were all blind deaf and dumb as they are today - except for Trump.
Trump is the only person who was seeing and hearing and knows. And because all the villains of the world know he knows - they condemn him instead of saying "come and rescue us! Come bring in more terrorists! Don't keep them out!" This is the Jewish organizations' answer. And there's a protest tomorrow for Trump, so we're on the streets, too."
Question: Who's on the streets?
"The ones who believe in the Trump administration, that America protects Jews at it did my father who performed the French and American armies and in the resistance and the Israeli independence War. He came here found a marvelous life in this marvelous country and these bastards are not going to ruin it. And the media that protects them is not going to ruin it. And the politicians on the Left are not gonna ruin it. They are losing - they will lose, they will always lose. Am Yisrael Chai! As Carlebach wrote for Meir Kahane's rescue of Soviet Jews."
Question: Do you believe there was a conspiracy to hide El Sayid Nosair's notes about leading to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing?
Mr. Taylor: "No question that there was a conspiracy and the death of Meir and Binyamin Kahane. Binyamin killed on the Millennium and Israel and Meir killed November 5th, 1990. But it was not a conspiracy to conceal the notes the notes were there nobody wanted to read them nobody in law enforcement bothered. I went to every . . .
I went to every law-enforcement agency the Federals confiscated most of it and they didn't have Arabic translators. And Morganthau's office was convinced it was one person on Prozac. Like the one who downed the Egyptian airplane who was out of a job and who was in fact an emissary of the PLO.
These are not lone soldiers!
They are part of conspiracies with deep money and deep training. And the one who went into the (Pittsburgh) temple today was an
assassin! He had us he had rifles and
handguns and only experts use! And he led
his men know and his women know who watch
his blog that this is the day and we're
too dumb to recognize it or take it
seriously! Meir Kahane took it seriously, as did Shlomo Carlebach. They brought Jews to
Judaism, they said not one inch from
Israel, and they would have protected us
today - but we don't have any Jews today
to protect us anywhere!
I might add that Dov Hikind was in the forefront of always protecting Jews. And he was there in Crown Heights when the locals went up against us and the Mayor Dinkins and his staff were told by Governor Cuomo to do nothing. So if you're expecting protection from government, or you're expecting protection from your friends, you're not gonna get it.
Speaks with my father's voice who went through everything, that God Almighty should see us through. We have the strength and the intelligence and the ingenuity to overcome all adversity - but we don't have the ability to confront ourselves. We have to, somehow or other , put reason in the minds of people who are normally reasonable. To see who the enemy is - that this is not an Orwellian world - that there is right and wrong there are no gray areas where events like this take place. The assassination of Kahane or the death of Carlebach, where they should have had a defibrillator on the plane. Now he would have been alive today and now they do. And certainly not a synagogue that should have had guns.
But I want to make one last point- that Cincinnati, that everybody talks about. The Democratic mayor the Democratic white mayor of Cincinnati allowed the Nazis to hold submachine guns in front of the synagogue doors."
Question: No, you mean Charlottesville?
"Yes, Charlottesville.
I love Cincinnati of course, it has
challenged me but I love Jefferson. So they allowed the machine guns in
front of the synagogue doors the entire
morning and that's the responsibility of
the mayor and his police to have removed
them. And the Jews had to go out through the
back. But our days of going out through
the back or depending on law
enforcement are over! We are now going to
take ourselves very seriously against
our own enemy and against the enemy from
outside. And I put my faith and trust in this administration with Trump and Governor Cuomo - because they are both
very good friends of the Jews and have
always been."
Fern Sidman, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Voice of New York weekly newspaper (and former activist with Rabbi Meir Kahane joins the discussion).
Ex-JDL'ers on Kahane's yahrzeit- anti-semitism on the Left and Right, but who will organize opposition against them under the expected Mamdani emboldenment?
Question: What was the scene like?
"Well, picture that synagogue today in Pittsburgh. Picture a guy in a civilian crowd well nobody has a gun (except my friend Ralph Elder who had just left). And in comes a gunman and shoots him right square in the face where I was standing. And I was taken away from security so this could be done. So you wonder about the security, you wonder about the enforcement. But Kahane was so strong and so healthy at 58 - 10-years younger than Meir when Meir died that his heart beat for another hour.
But the same Jewish doctors who couldn't save him - saved his assassinator, Nosair.
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| El Sayyid Nosair mugshot 1993 |
And when the sentence came down that acquitted the murderer of the murder that everybody knew he did, even Schlessinger, my mother-in-law's opera mate, who I had a sit next to the judge who never got certiorari after that to stay on longer, he said the verdict make no sense and because of the evidence I had of the gun that I saw Nosair had (I took a picture of he spent another year and a half in jail) and so they had the evidence when in '93 the World Trade Center blew up the first time to keep him there after that event and then read in Arabic what they should have read in the beginning. It' still didn't help them for 9/11. No matter how many times I warn the mayor and his staff and them and the FBI and so on they were all blind deaf and dumb as they are today - except for Trump.
Trump is the only person who was seeing and hearing and knows. And because all the villains of the world know he knows - they condemn him instead of saying "come and rescue us! Come bring in more terrorists! Don't keep them out!" This is the Jewish organizations' answer. And there's a protest tomorrow for Trump, so we're on the streets, too."
Question: Who's on the streets?
"The ones who believe in the Trump administration, that America protects Jews at it did my father who performed the French and American armies and in the resistance and the Israeli independence War. He came here found a marvelous life in this marvelous country and these bastards are not going to ruin it. And the media that protects them is not going to ruin it. And the politicians on the Left are not gonna ruin it. They are losing - they will lose, they will always lose. Am Yisrael Chai! As Carlebach wrote for Meir Kahane's rescue of Soviet Jews."
Question: Do you believe there was a conspiracy to hide El Sayid Nosair's notes about leading to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing?
Mr. Taylor: "No question that there was a conspiracy and the death of Meir and Binyamin Kahane. Binyamin killed on the Millennium and Israel and Meir killed November 5th, 1990. But it was not a conspiracy to conceal the notes the notes were there nobody wanted to read them nobody in law enforcement bothered. I went to every . . .
I went to every law-enforcement agency the Federals confiscated most of it and they didn't have Arabic translators. And Morganthau's office was convinced it was one person on Prozac. Like the one who downed the Egyptian airplane who was out of a job and who was in fact an emissary of the PLO.
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| Etz Chaim synagogue massacre memorial |
I might add that Dov Hikind was in the forefront of always protecting Jews. And he was there in Crown Heights when the locals went up against us and the Mayor Dinkins and his staff were told by Governor Cuomo to do nothing. So if you're expecting protection from government, or you're expecting protection from your friends, you're not gonna get it.
Speaks with my father's voice who went through everything, that God Almighty should see us through. We have the strength and the intelligence and the ingenuity to overcome all adversity - but we don't have the ability to confront ourselves. We have to, somehow or other , put reason in the minds of people who are normally reasonable. To see who the enemy is - that this is not an Orwellian world - that there is right and wrong there are no gray areas where events like this take place. The assassination of Kahane or the death of Carlebach, where they should have had a defibrillator on the plane. Now he would have been alive today and now they do. And certainly not a synagogue that should have had guns.
But I want to make one last point- that Cincinnati, that everybody talks about. The Democratic mayor the Democratic white mayor of Cincinnati allowed the Nazis to hold submachine guns in front of the synagogue doors."
Question: No, you mean Charlottesville?
"Yes, Charlottesville.
I love Cincinnati of course, it has
challenged me but I love Jefferson. So they allowed the machine guns in
front of the synagogue doors the entire
morning and that's the responsibility of
the mayor and his police to have removed
them. And the Jews had to go out through the
back. But our days of going out through
the back or depending on law
enforcement are over! We are now going to
take ourselves very seriously against
our own enemy and against the enemy from
outside. And I put my faith and trust in this administration with Trump and Governor Cuomo - because they are both
very good friends of the Jews and have
always been."Fern Sidman, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Voice of New York weekly newspaper (and former activist with Rabbi Meir Kahane joins the discussion).
Ex-JDL'ers on Kahane's yahrzeit- anti-semitism on the Left and Right, but who will organize opposition against them under the expected Mamdani emboldenment?
