100% this. I have friends who still support Mamdani and find him “charming.”
Please know you are alienating your Jewish friends by not recognizing how blatantly he publicly despises us. If he targeted Indians, Black people, Asians, Latinos … people would call him out.
Mamdani is usually careful not to cross the line from harsh (and often false) criticism of Israel into outright antisemitism, but this time there is no other reasonable way to interpret his remarks.
Notice how he describes AIPAC's funding as "dark money," invokes the age-old conspiracy trope of Jewish influence over centers of power, and then effectively blames it for America's economic problems.
Straight out of the antisemitic playbook.