Man Accused of Killing Former Trump Adviser's Mother Arraigned on Hate Crime Charges for Targeting Kosher Bagel Shop

Dawood Faisal, 22, [peas be up in him] was arraigned Monday on hate crime charges for twice vandalizing a kosher bagel shop in Queens that displayed Israeli flags. The incidents came days before he allegedly caused the fatal crash that killed Cara Trager, the mother of a former Trump Middle East adviser.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz charged Faisal with two counts of criminal mischief in the third degree as a hate crime for the May 15 and May 23 incidents at Bagels & Co. in the heavily Jewish Fresh Meadows neighborhood. 

Prosecutors say he targeted the Jewish-owned shop on Union Turnpike because of the Israeli flags and banners. On May 15 he knocked over nine metal plant stands, spilled dirt and plants onto the sidewalk, and threw dirt at the storefront twice. He returned around 1 a.m. on May 23, pushed and kicked 11 metal plant stands, emptied their contents, and uprooted plants from a large clay pot after failing to knock it over.

“As alleged, Dawood Faisal, repeatedly targeted a Fresh Meadows business specifically because it is Jewish-owned and featured Israeli flags, and destroyed property as an expression of antisemitism,” Katz said in a statement. “Bias crimes are an affront to our entire community and will not be tolerated.”

Queens Supreme Court Justice Michael Hartofilis ordered Faisal to return to court on November 12. Conviction on the hate crime charges carries up to seven years in prison.

Faisal already faces manslaughter and assault charges from the May 25 crash. Prosecutors allege he drove a Toyota Prius more than 75 mph in a 35 mph zone, ran at least two red lights, and collided with two vehicles on Francis Lewis Boulevard. One vehicle was sent into a crosswalk, striking Cara Trager, 71, and her husband Michael as they walked home from dinner. Cara suffered severe head trauma and died four days later. Michael sustained a shoulder injury, cuts to his hands, and facial bruising. Faisal pleaded not guilty to those charges after his June indictment.

The second bagel shop incident occurred just two days before the crash. Cara’s daughter, Rachel Sales, later wrote that her mother had discussed the vandalism with her shortly beforehand. The family has questioned whether authorities could have intervened after the alleged attacks and prevented the death. Officials are not treating the crash as a hate crime.

Michael Trager told The Daily Wire in August that the circumstances warrant scrutiny given the neighborhood and the timing. “My contention is that the area itself is very, very Jewish,” he said. “It’s Bukharian, it’s a Russian Jewish area, and most of the people who were eyewitnesses, the people who detained him, were Bukharian Jews.”

He described the moment of the crash. “The first thing I did was I started punching myself to say, ‘Oh, gee, I’m still alive here,’” Michael recalled. “Then I saw that my wife was dead. I couldn’t believe it happened because I didn’t do anything wrong. We were crossing the street, and next thing I know, I’m on the ground with my wife.”

Michael attended Faisal’s initial arraignment days after the crash while Cara was hospitalized and dying. “I was afraid that my wife was going to officially die when I’m at the arraignment, but I went,” he said. Faisal’s family was present. His mother repeatedly cried in the courtroom. “I’m thinking to myself, ‘What are you crying for? Are you crying for your son, or are you crying because your son killed my wife? Why are you crying?’” Michael said.

Authorities told Michael that Faisal was neither working nor attending school and was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Michael noted that an act of that nature in that area at that time made it more likely the victim would be Jewish, though he acknowledged it did not prove specific targeting. “If you’re going to do that kind of act in that area, at that time, you’re more than likely, if you’re going to kill somebody, to kill a Jew,” he said.

Cara Trager was a longtime Queens journalist active in the Jewish community. She wrote for Newsday, the New York Post, and Crain’s New York Business and produced materials for organizations including UJA-Federation of New York and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

NYPD data for July showed Jews were the targets of nearly 70% of confirmed hate crimes reported in New York City that month, despite making up roughly 10% of the city’s population.

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Is Dr. Oz a wizard or what, in his crackdown on NYC daycare center directors?

FLUSHING, N.Y. — Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz showed up in a surprise visit at two New York City senior care centers suspected of treating Medicaid like an open bar tab, and the staff responses landed somewhere between "the computer did it" and "please come back after lunch when the room looks fuller." 

Fox News Digital tagged along as federal officials delivered the kind of warning letters that tend to make billing departments check the exits.

Oz and senior federal health officials handed the notices to Kent Senior Care and Evergreen Adult Day Care in Flushing, Queens, causing several severe cases of loose stools, and not the kind you sit in unless you're very weird.

The visits formed part of a wider sweep that put the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the NYPD and other agencies on the same Tuesday itinerary. More than 80 stops and warning letters went out across the city that day. 

Taxpayers who fund the programs received no such courtesy tour.

"The whole experience was suspicious," Oz told Fox News Digital afterward.

Authorities described a broader effort that included arrests, search warrants and moves to halt certain operators from billing Medicaid, although these steps at the two Queens, NY sites were not observed directly by Fox News Digital.

Oz questions senior center director: 'We don't believe you'

The first stop, around 8:30 a.m. at Kent Senior Care, when residents were likely in the throes of being cleaned up, began with Oz walking in and personally delivering the federal letter. The posted maximum occupancy was 70. The room did not appear to be testing that number.

"The bills are much higher than they should be," Oz told the director. "The billing is for more people. It doesn't look very crowded here."

The director claimed that more seniors would arrive later. Oz noted the paperwork suggested something closer to this being the perpetual capacity.

"The bills we're getting are as though it's completely full all the time," Oz said. So something stank, much like these places at 8:30 in the morning.

The director insisted the center billed only for actual attendance and required sign-in sheets. Oz was unmoved.

"You're getting this letter from the U.S. Government because we don't believe you," he told the director.

Billing records indicated five-day-a-week participation. The director said many seniors came only two or three days. When the conversation turned to specialized wheelchair transportation charges, Oz looked around the room.

"I don't see any wheelchairs here," Oz told the director.

Fox News Digital saw seniors using walking aids but no wheelchairs during the visit. Another official noted the billing for specialized transport. The director said some participants had mobility issues after strokes, that wheelchairs were available, and that staff might have reused old codes.

"Probably he just copy and pasted," the director said, lying like an abandoned sofa by Coney Islamd Creek.

Oz then walked over to the mahjong tables set up for the Medicaid-funded program.

"Should the American taxpayers be paying so folks can play mahjong?" Oz asked the director.

The director said the game helped with finger exercise, socialization and memory. Oz answered that the benefit was not free.

"It's free for them, not free for the taxpayers," Oz responded. "Is that what our federal tax dollars for Medicaid is supposed to go to? Or is it life-saving heart surgery? Or, you know, new therapies for cancer?"

Oz also watched seniors walk in without signing anything, despite the stated requirement. He later described the timing.

"People were just walking in there without signing anything," Oz said. "And then after I showed up and he saw what we were doing with my team, he started collecting these documents to be signed." You know, closing the barn door after the chickens made a run for it.

Social adult day care programs can supply activities, supervision, meals and support. Medicaid payment hinges on eligibility and documentation of what was actually provided. The gap between that rule and the observed room proved difficult to close on the spot.

At Evergreen Adult Day Care the pattern repeated. 

A floor manager said roughly 200 seniors attended on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and about 150 on the other days. Oz walked the space and offered a different count.

"So I look at maybe 25 people in the whole space now," Oz said, perhaps forgetting to multiply by 10. 

The manager claimed that some were in classes and others had left for shopping, the pharmacy or appointments.

"The numbers don't seem to add up," Oz responded.

On wheelchairs the manager first said none were in use, then acknowledged a small number.

"But you said there weren't any, didn't you?" Oz pressed. He compared notes with the other federal officials present.

"I'm struck by how few people are here as well," Oz said. "This makes me wonder how they sustain these billing levels."

The attendance books supplied the next discrepancy. Fox News Digital saw sign-in sheets with names already entered for Oct. 22 and Oct. 23, dates that had not yet arrived. Whether the pages were finished records or advance schedules remained unclear. Let's hope he took photos of the fraudulent-sounding evidence,

Oz alleges organized crime ties to NYC Medicaid fraud. He said federal authorities believed organized criminal networks were paying seniors to appear at facilities so operators could bill for services never delivered. He described individuals he linked to the "Chinese mafia" offering some seniors between $1,000 and $1,200 to participate. 

He did not name a specific group or present supporting evidence in the interview. He said billing spikes across the sector had pushed annual spending toward $1 billion. 

Sounds a lot like a Minnesota Learing Center, doesn't it?

"We know from the billing here that there's no way this business is running in the way that they claim to be running without something being wrong," Oz told the media outlet.

"Is it an innocent mistake? A hundred times in a row, I don't think so."

He added that proceeds from the schemes were financing other crimes, including money laundering and human trafficking. 

"It's really a clubhouse for crime," Oz said.

He said the fraud grew during the COVID-19 period and faulted the previous administration for letting the spending and the suspicious patterns continue. 

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Democratic New York Gov. comrade Kathy Hochul called the Tuesday actions part of a "massive effort to combat fraud and abuse" and noted that state health officials joined the federal and local effort. While Oz delivered the letters in Queens, searches continued at other sites across the city. Details on the remaining targets, the people involved and any evidence recovered were not available while the investigations continued.

Imagine if the Democrats were in power in the federal government. They would look the other way while holding out their hands for a little greasing. 

Change my mind.

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Prostitution is all over the streets of Mamdani's New York City

A Shi'a mut'ah marriage (Arabic: nikāḥ al-mutʿah, literally meaning "pleasure marriage" or "temporary marriage"; in Iran, known as sigheh) is a fixed-term, contractual marriage practiced primarily within Twelver Shi'a jurisprudence.

Unlike permanent Islamic marriage (nikāḥ), which is intended to last indefinitely, a mut'ah union is established for a pre-agreed length of time, usually just a few days in order to legalize prostitution.

NEW YORK, NY — City officials are celebrating another resounding success for progressive governance today as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vision of a vibrant, unregulated free market flourishes along Queens’ iconic Roosevelt Avenue.

According to recent NYPD figures, prostitution-related arrests along the stretch famously known as the “Market of Sweethearts” have plummeted nearly 59%, down to a modest 193 arrests compared to 468 during the exact same period last year.

Local consumers have praised the administration's hands-off economic policies. A 40-year-old Manhattan resident identified only as John expressed deep gratitude to City Hall, telling reporters he gladly rides the subway out to the corridor because prices are low and police are completely powerless to interrupt his transactional romance.

The economic boom follows the repeal of state laws prohibiting loitering for prostitution, alongside Mamdani's enthusiastic support for legislation like Cecilia’s Law to fully decriminalize adult sex work.

While former Mayor Eric Adams briefly threatened the thriving street economy with Operation Restore Roosevelt—a enforcement crackdown that saw arrests surge by 477.8%—Mamdani has boldly restored Mayor Bill de Blasio’s legacy of tactical inaction.

Political opponents remain baffled by the burgeoning cultural renaissance. Former mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa had previously warned voters about the impending surge, while former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo expressed concern over the lack of traditional policing.

“Not enforcing a law is effectively repealing a law,” Cuomo said. “We saw many laws simply not enforced during de Blasio’s time in office and quality of life dipped. This issue is particularly dangerous because, along with the poor people swept into this life who are hurt and abused, it empowers gangs, organized crime and other criminal enterprises and entire neighborhoods suffer. Anyone who remembers the Bad Old Days of Times Square does not want to go back and that is exactly what will happen if this comes to pass.”

Advocates, however, insist that arresting people for selling illegal services harms their profit margins and makes it much harder to generate income without state interference.

A spokesperson for City Hall confirmed that Mayor Mamdani is actively working alongside neighborhood groups to balance light enforcement with comprehensive social services, ensuring the local red-light district remains a permanent staple of the city's unique charm.

Mamdani’s office did not respond to requests for comment, likely because they were busy celebrating the total elimination of crime through the simple method of no longer counting it.

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NYPD Commissioner reminds New Yorkers who the heroes were on 9/11

THE LARGE APPLE — New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch appeared to deliver a subtle but unmistakable reminder to Mayor Zohran Mamdani Wednesday that there is, in fact, a difference between the people who attacked New York City and the Americans who ran toward the danger to save their fellow citizens.

Tisch made the apparently controversial observation during the unveiling of a new 9/11 Memorial Wall at One Police Plaza honoring more than 469 NYPD members who have died from illnesses connected to their service following the terrorist attacks.

“Preserving that history also means preserving its moral clarity,” Tisch said. “The men who attacked this city were terrorists. The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes. Twenty-five years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do.”

In what must have been an absolutely shocking development for modern New York politics, the police commissioner suggested that terrorists are bad and firefighters, police officers and other first responders are good. 

What an incredible reveal!

Many observers immediately suspected Tisch was speaking directly to Mamdani, despite the fact that she never actually used his name.

“Jessica Tisch said this with Zohran Mamdani sitting beside her. Public officials must show ‘moral clarity’ about 9/11 and never blur the distinction between heroes and terrorists. ‘Shame on those who do.’ She didn’t say his name. She didn’t have to,” former financial exec Sam Antar posted.

The timing was particularly interesting.

Just days earlier, Mamdani had signed official orders designating September 11 as a Day of Remembrance and addressing security concerns ahead of the 25th anniversary events.

Afterward, Mamdani gifted the ceremonial pen to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who has been directly linked to al-Qaeda terrorists and is considered by many decent patriots to be a scumbag who has no business being within a thousand miles of Ground Zero.

Unfortunately for everyone involved in the ceremony, Tisch happened to be standing between Mamdani and Kassem.

Mamdani therefore first handed the pen to Tisch and asked her to “pass it” to Kassem.

Tisch then reportedly made an abrupt exit from the room, presumably after realizing that New York's latest diversity initiative had somehow become a game of Hot Potato involving a ceremonial pen and an al-Qaeda-linked lawyer. She had another place in mind as to where the pen should be shoved.

Critics immediately accused comrade Mamdani of deliberately creating the bizarre optics and argued that he knew exactly how the gesture would look.

“This childish, calculated display of passive aggression was missed by no one, and will not be forgotten by Tisch or by NYC’s millions of 9/11 survivors,” Fox Business anchor David Asman said.

Matthew Hennessey wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Everyone deserves a lawyer. But by deliberately handing his ceremonial pen to this man, Mr. Mamdani mocked the loss his city suffered on 9/11. And he forced Ms. Tisch to participate in that mockery. He might as well have turned to the cameras and winked.”

Fortunately, Commissioner Tisch apparently decided that 25 years was long enough to remember the basic facts.

The men who flew airplanes into buildings were terrorist scum. 

The people who ran toward those buildings were heroes.

And apparently, in 2026, someone still has to explain the difference.

But you know and Mamdani knows the difference and he seems to be on the side of his 'brothers' who flew into those buildings 25 years ago.

Wake up, America and lose your suicidal empathy, to use the words of the great Gad Saad.

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Another Knife-Wielding Maniac Charges Police In NYC, Because Progressive Utopia Is Going Great

Police had to confront and kill a knife-wielding maniac in New York City on Friday. This came just days after a different maniac went on a stabbing rampage, killing one person and wounding another in Times Square. 

City leaders remain shocked that this keeps happening while defunding the police is never off the table to leftists.

The man was first seen walking on the Brooklyn Bridge cables around 3:30 a.m. Officers scaled the bridge to talk him into coming down safely. That turned into a standoff. The man lunged at them and made threats.

“He stated, ‘I want to die, I want you to kill me, I have a bomb, you’re not going to make me do something bad to the cops,’” NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit (ESU) Assistant Chief Gerard Dowling, told reporters.

Officers spent nearly one hour asking the man to drop his weapon and come down. They tried to reason with a guy who said he wanted to die and might have a bomb. 

Then the knife-wielding man started coming down the cables. He lunged at one officer when he got within three feet. “At that point, a member of ESU who was on the roadbed of the bridge discharged his weapon one time, striking the man,” Dowling said.

The man was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead. All Brooklyn-bound lanes of the bridge shut down during peak Friday morning commute hours. 

This incident came after another knife attack in New York City on Monday. 

Erin Piacenti, a young wife and new mother who had just returned from maternity leave to her VP job at Bank of America, was stabbed and killed by a mentally disturbed woman. A handful of leftists cheered the murder because of the victim's bank position, just like they did when Luigi Mangione shot and killed Brian Thompson, a CEO for UnitedHealthcare.

Another unidentified man in the Piacenti incident was also injured and taken to the hospital. He was released on Tuesday. Police fatally shot the attacker, 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros, who was armed with two kitchen knives. Cisneros, from Queens, had previous outbursts tied to her mental state. She refused repeated commands to drop the knives when officers confronted her near an NYPD substation.

“During the encounter, she told the officers, ‘I’m not dropping anything. I would rather kill both of you.’ She repeated, ‘I will kill you,’” NYPD Chief, Jessica Tisch said during a press briefing.

Several weeks before that, there was another stabbing near Times Square. A man was stabbed in the head during an argument inside a subway station. Officials are sure the next round of sensitivity training and reduced police presence will fix everything.

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Socialist Mayor Mamdani booed off the stage in a New York minute: gets instant karma in Staten Island

New York City’s freshly minted socialist, comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed up to a massive pro-police celebration on Staten Island thinking the working-class crowd would greet him like a conquering hero. 

Fat chance.

Instead, 3,500 residents and families treated him like the defund-the-police enthusiast he has always been and the result was that in under a minute of incoherent taqiyya mumbling, the crowd drowned him out with pure, unfiltered American 'eff off.'

Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America, anti-Semite, who spent years treating cops like the enemy, stepped up to the microphone at the NYPD’s 43rd Patrol Borough National Night Out Against Crime. He barely got out a greeting before the boos, jeers, and chants of “get out of here” and “nobody wants you” turned the stage into his personal walk of shame. 

He tried to power through but the crowd refused to let up and bow down to his nonsense.

Eventually the commie mayor clutched his heart in that signature performative Islamic-like gesture, waved like a beauty pageant contestant who just lost, and fled the stage still smiling as if the entire humiliation was some kind of progressive victory lap. This was what can only be described as a major dork performance and embarrassment. 

The audience kept right on booing and shaking fists while organizers desperately tried to restore order. Conservative voices wasted no time celebrating the moment of clarity. Pundit Eric Daugherty summed it up perfectly: the mayor was “VICIOUSLY booed and jeered off stage” and “walked off in SHAME.” 

Commentator Joey Mannarino added the necessary realism: “New York’s communist mayor just got the reception he actually deserves.” 

The same cops and taxpayers this DSA scumcrumpet spent years vilifying and trying to defund finally told him exactly where he could stick his soft-on-crime agenda. 

Staten Island, unofficially known as the last remaining pocket of common sense in the five boroughs, saw right through the act. This was not some random outburst because everyone with eyes and ears knows how Mamdani’s entire political brand has been built on treating law enforcement like the problem. His campaign embraced the defund movement. His first budget sliced police funding and scrapped plans to hire 5,000 new officers. 

New York City Police Department Chief of Department Michael LiPetri attends the
National Night Out Against Crime at Restoration Plaza. (Getty Images)

Then came “Snowballgate,” the February incident where roughly 100 people pelted NYPD officers with ice projectiles, injuring two. Mamdani’s response was to minimize the dickwads behavior by calling them “kids” having a playful snowball fight and carefully avoid any suggestion that assaulting cops might actually be illegal. If you saw the video of the incident, you'd immediately know that this wasn't a freaking snowball fight but an attack on police. 

Crime expert Rafael Mangual noted the obvious: the mayor refused to back the NYPD or call for prosecutions. The message was clear. Officers are the bad guys. Violent mobs are simply energetic youth.

So when the same commie mayor waltzed into a National Night Out Against Crime event expecting applause, Staten Island delivered the only logical response. The people who actually live with the consequences of progressive soft-on-crime policies decided they had heard enough. No amount of hand-over-heart theatrics could paper over years of anti-police rhetoric. The crowd simply exercised their right to free speech and informed the mayor that his particular brand of socialism has no constituency among the people who still believe cops should be allowed to do their jobs.

In the end, Mamdani left the stage to sustained mockery while the rest of the city continues to deal with the real-world results of his bs ideology. High crime, declining quality of life, and a police force under constant political assault do not magically disappear because a socialist mayor smiles through the boos. 

Staten Island just made that point louder and clearer than any policy paper ever could. God bless the people who still refuse to pretend otherwise.

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Attacker yells something like "Al Lou's Snackbar" stabs a Jew and Asian in NYC's upper West Side

Lincoln Square Synagogue

Two men, one of whom was visibly Jewish, were stabbed outside an Orthodox synagogue in Manhattan's West Side.

The NYPD's initial investigation suggests that mental health may have been a factor, or perhaps another case of anti-Semitism catching on among the fashionable Left. To their credit, investigators are also evaluating the stabbings as a potential hate crime, a refreshing change from pretending every attack on Jews is just an unfortunate coincidence.

The Lincoln Square Synagogue at 200 Amsterdam Avenue on the corner of West 69th Street in Manhattan's Lincoln Square neighborhood has stood since 1970, designed by Hausman & Rosenberg. On Thursday, it became the latest reminder that New York's promises of tolerance seem to apply to everyone except Jews.

Eyewitnesses allege that the suspect shouted something that sounded sort of like "Al Lou's Snack bar" during the attack, according to the Anti-Defamation League in a post on X.

Police said a 57 year old man was stabbed in the back, while a 50 year old man was stabbed in the chest because they are Jewish.

New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who coincidentally is also Jewish, announced that 51 year old Raul Morales had been arrested in connection with both attacks and that "no other people are being sought," in a post on X early Friday morning.

She added that one victim is Asian and the other is Jewish, and that the NYPD is investigating whether the attacks qualify as a hate crime.

At the same time, Tisch said the initial investigation suggested the attacker's mental health "may have been a factor," just like it is with all Muslims who believe that killing people for being Jewish is the right thing to do to please Allah. The thing is, if Allah has created the world and thus created the Jews, then how dies he call himself perfect? I certainly wouldn't hire Allah as a project manager, that's for sure.

"At this time there is no known link between Morales and either of the victims, nor between the victims and each other," she said.

That explanation has become almost routine whenever someone attacks Jews. The script practically writes itself. Mention mental health, avoid uncomfortable questions, and hope everyone moves on before anyone notices the growing pattern. Has nobody on the freaking left read the Islamic war manual they call the Koran?

New York Mayor and proud anti-Semite, comrade Zohran Mamdani responded on X, writing, "I have been briefed on today’s horrifying stabbings on the Upper West Side, where an Asian man and a Jewish man were attacked."

"According to witness and victim statements, the perpetrator yelled 'Allahu Akbar' during both attacks. I am relieved that both victims are in stable condition."

"The NYPD’s initial investigation suggests that mental health may have been a factor. They are also evaluating these stabbings as potential hate crimes," he added, using taqiyya to keep things on the down-low.

That statement might carry more weight if New Yorkers had not spent months watching politicians and activists normalize anti-Israel rhetoric while insisting there was absolutely no connection between demonizing the Jewish state and rising hostility toward Jewish people. Apparently, the Left believes words have immense power, except when those words are directed at Jews.

Governor Kathy Hochul (D) also responded on X, saying she was "Disgusted by what appears to be another senseless attack on New Yorkers simply because they’re Jewish."

"The strength of New York has always been our ability to live together across every faith and background," she said, referring to the past.

Hochul pulled out an index card and read it: "Our hearts are also with the second victim. Asian New Yorkers, like Jewish New Yorkers, have endured waves of hate-fueled violence in recent years. Hate rarely stops with one group."

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, was considerably less diplomatic. He directly blamed jihadi Mayor Mamdani for fostering the climate that made such violence more likely.

In a post on X, Danon wrote, "Zohran Mamdani, your incitement is putting Jewish lives in danger in New York, home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel."

"You have spent months fueling hatred, demonizing Israel and legitimizing hostility toward Jews. Now take responsibility for the consequences," he added.

"Stop the incitement. Before more people get hurt."

Yeah, sure. Like Mamdani is going to actually stop anti-Semitic violence when his constituency is comprised of blue and pink-hair commies, socialists, and brother Islamists who now accept anti-Semitic rhetoric as cocktail conversation.

Whether investigators ultimately conclude the attack was driven by mental illness, anti-Semitism, or both, one fact remains impossible to ignore. Jewish New Yorkers continue to find themselves targeted with alarming frequency, while too many public officials seem more comfortable explaining away the violence than confronting the toxic ideology that keeps producing it.

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Mamdani Discovers Crime Stats Improve Dramatically If You Explain Them Long Enough

New York City Mayor comrade Zohran Mamdani found himself taking incoming fire Monday after offering what may become the Left's newest crime-fighting strategy: explaining away bad statistics until everyone forgets why they were worried in the first place. That tactic is known in the military as "baffle them with your bullsht."

During an interview with PIX11 News, Mamdani was asked about concerns over rising rape and felony assault numbers raised by New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin. Rather than promising tougher enforcement or more police, the mayor reached for a familiar progressive comfort blanket, context.

"And what I think is important to know is a lot of the increase in rape also comes from an expanded definition of what counts as rape, as well as survivors coming forward for acts that took place years prior," Mamdani said. "And we are thankful for them coming forward, the courage and the bravery it takes, but just to provide New Yorkers with that context."

Translation: don't believe your lying statistics.

To be fair, Mamdani also pointed out that murders and shootings remain among the lowest on record. Unfortunately for New Yorkers, that reassurance landed about as well as telling someone their apartment fire isn't so bad because the kitchen is still standing.

Even some Democrats were less than thrilled with the explanation.

New York City Council member Susan Zhuang wrote on X, "Expanding the legal definition of rape was an important step toward recognizing more survivors under the law. But it should never be used to deflect from the responsibility to reduce sexual violence. Survivors deserve leadership, action, accountability, and justice. They don’t deserve deflection."

Women's sports advocate Riley Gaines summed up the reaction with a question many were already asking: "HOW did women vote for this guy?"

Rep, Chip Roy (R-TX), offered his own assessment: "Rapes are up. Rents are up. Foreign diseases and parasites spreading. Historic Churches burning left and right. Elect the third world, get the third world."

OutKick founder Clay Travis piled on with, "Sure, New York City rents hit an all time record high today, but at least the mayor is still very eloquent on social medi…whoops!"

RedState writer Bonchie simply observed, "Going great."

Pro-Israel activist Lizzy Savetzky added, "Didn’t realize rape had a dynamic definition."

Substack writer Jim Treacher quipped, "No wonder these guys saw no problem with Platner."

Mamdani's reference to an "expanded definition" appears to point to New York's Rape is Rape Act, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2024. The law broadened the legal definition of rape to include forms of nonconsensual sexual assault beyond vaginal penetration.

That explanation, however, leaves one awkward detail. The law took effect in September 2024, yet the NYPD's latest CompStat report still shows rapes up 6.6 percent compared with the same period last year, well after the legal definition had already changed.

Apparently, in progressive governance, reality is just another statistic waiting for the proper explanation.

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Zohran Mamdani Forced to Celebrate America's 250th Birthday While Wife Finds Better Things To Do At Luxury Islamic Retreat In Spain

Just another disgusting anti-American Communist [allegedly]

Nothing says "Happy 250th, America!" quite like spending Independence Day reminding everyone why America is terrible while your spouse is sipping Mediterranean sunshine at a $3,400 spiritual retreat dedicated to discovering flowers mentioned in the Quran.

As patriotic Americans celebrated the nation's 250th birthday with fireworks, flags, backyard barbecues, and enough red, white, and blue to make an eagle shed a tear, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used the occasion to deliver another lecture about capitalism, ICE, and America being an "arena of supremacy."

Meanwhile, his wife, Rama Duwaji, decided that celebrating the country her husband now governs was simply too exhausting. She boarded a flight from Newark Liberty International Airport and headed for the luxurious Spanish island of Mallorca, where she is serving as artist-in-residence for a sold-out Islamic women's retreat.

The exclusive getaway carries a price tag of roughly $3,400 per guest, because apparently spiritual enlightenment is considerably more meaningful when accompanied by Mediterranean views and boutique accommodations.

Participants spend their time exploring "Plants of the Quran" through art, botanical workshops, and Islamic reflection. Duwaji is also scheduled to headline another sold-out retreat later this month in Corsica examining "Mary in the Quran," proving that nothing complements America's birthday quite like being several thousand miles away discussing someone else's religious heritage.

Republican New York City Councilwoman Joann Ariola summed up the optics with remarkable restraint.

"Nothing says 'America 250' quite like skipping the celebration for a Mediterranean vacation," Ariola said. "I am not surprised because she has made her hatred for America very evident."

Councilman Frank Morano also questioned the decision.

"It's disappointing that the First Lady chose to be overseas instead of taking part in one of the biggest civic events our city and country will mark this year," Morano said. "No one is saying elected officials and their families can't take vacations, but this was a moment to show up for the city and for the country."

The Mayor's Office declined to answer the criticism directly, though officials did confirm one encouraging detail. Duwaji did not require members of the NYPD security detail to accompany her Mediterranean escape.

The trip also revived interest in Duwaji's previously deleted social media posts, which offered a level of enthusiasm for the United States usually reserved for America's geopolitical rivals.

Among the resurfaced posts was one claiming American soldiers "are not brave" while accusing them of "slaughtering 3rd world civilians" in pursuit of American hegemony. Other deleted posts reportedly praised Palestinian militant organizations and criticized U.S. support for Israel.

Mamdani has argued that his wife should not be judged by those posts because she holds no official position in his administration. Duwaji later apologized for several of the messages, although critics noted that deleting anti-American rhetoric is considerably easier than explaining it.

Back home, the mayor marked America's semiquincentennial from behind George Washington's former desk at New York City Hall. Faced with an opportunity to celebrate the country that has given millions of people unprecedented liberty and prosperity, Mamdani instead chose to focus on everything he believes is wrong with it.

"We see masked agents terrorizing our streets," Mamdani said, referring to ICE officers, while also criticizing what he described as monopolies and oligarchs controlling the nation's wealth.

One can only imagine George Washington listening from the great beyond, wondering whether crossing the Delaware had somehow led to Independence Day becoming an annual grievance seminar.

To his credit, Mamdani eventually concluded with "God bless America," although by then the phrase landed like an obligatory disclaimer after several minutes of cataloging the nation's alleged sins.

The mayor later attended official America 250 celebrations in New York, including the Parade of Sail and the Empire State Building's Fourth of July lighting ceremony.

His wife, meanwhile, remained comfortably overseas, reminding Americans that while millions celebrated the greatest experiment in self-government ever devised, at least one member of New York City's first family apparently found a luxury Mediterranean retreat to be the more compelling destination.

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Normal New Yorkers demand NY Times retract their "dog rape" propaganda garbage and fire Nicholas Kristof

An Egyptian national has been handed a life sentence for firebombing a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado. In that attack last June, a Holocaust survivor was tragically killed. Karol Markowicz, a Fox News columnist, has drawn attention to the surge of anti-Semitism now visible across the United States, especially in the blue states, where violent attacks have multiplied. Her observations come in the wake of fresh clashes between an anti-Israel mob and the NYPD outside a New York City synagogue.

In New York, protesters gathered on Thursday outside the headquarters of former newspaper and current rag, The New York Times. 

Their outrage was directed at a ludicrous opinion piece by the anti-Semitic lunatic columnist Nicholas Kristof. 

The piece contained lurid allegations of serial sexual abuse by Israelis against Palestinian detainees. The article presented the testimony of men and women who alleged "brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators." Among the bogus bizarre claims were that Palestinians "had their genitals yanked or were beaten on the testicles," that "some men had to have their testicles amputated by doctors," and that metal batons were used to rape men. No victims came forth, no evidence exists.

Kristof further reported that a Gaza journalist claimed he was "mounted" by a dog, before adding that "Other Palestinian prisoners and human rights monitors have also cited reports of police dogs being coached to rape prisoners." Again, no evidence was provided and the idea that Israelis would put themselves in such a tenuous public position is not merely disgusting and crazy, it's illogical.

The article met with immediate and fierce backlash from readers and from the Israeli government, which has threatened legal action against The Times. Commentators have rightly questioned the piece, noting that several of those interviewed by Kristof maintained ties to Hamas or to anti-Israel activism.

The controversy soon spilled onto the streets. Only two days after publication, protesters assembled outside The New York Times building, demanding a retraction and, in some cases, the dismissal of Kristof himself. Many in the gathering were understandably livid.

Protesters stood inside NYPD barricades holding signs that read "Shame on The New York Times for publishing anti-Zionist libels" and "The New York Times: All the blood libel that's fit to print." They chanted for a retraction. Many carried Israeli and American flags, some of them combined in a single banner.

"All the sh*t that fits, they print."

The protest had come together with remarkable speed. Ramon Maislen told Fox News Digital that the effort was organized over WhatsApp in less than forty-eight hours. "The group came together and in 48 hours we are making this happen," he said. "I think it's really important because we've got to get the word out that when you create libel against people, it ends up having violence against them, and we're trying to avoid that."

The demonstrators were angered not only by the content but by the timing. They saw the piece as a deliberate attempt to overshadow reports on the sexual violence suffered by victims of the October 7 massacre. 

One organizer, Jayne Zirkle, Director of Communications and Outreach for The Lawfare Project, made the point plainly. "They published a slanderous article against Israel, and they did this just a day before the October 7th rape report came out," she said. "They want to take away from the horrible sexual abuse that the October 7th victims endured, and we are demanding retraction. We're demanding better journalism."

Adam Louis-Klein, founder of the Movement Against Anti-Zionism, went further. He argued that the article portrayed Israelis as uniquely barbaric and placed Jews everywhere in danger. "It's a racist, defamatory libel. It's meant to make all Israelis look evil and bestial," he said.

Zach Sage Fox, a pro-Israel influencer who addressed the crowd, accused Kristof of relying on "Hamas sources and propaganda to the point of insanity." "They actually have to make up blood libels from the medieval times to paint a picture of the Jews," Fox told Fox News Digital. He warned that even a retraction would come too late, given how widely the claims had already spread. Fox also recalled The Times' own shameful record during the Holocaust. In 2001, on the paper's 150th anniversary, its former Executive Editor Max Frankel described its coverage of the genocide as "the century's bitterest journalistic failure." "History repeats itself, and now, it's reposting itself," Fox observed. He called for Kristof to be fired at once, along with anyone else involved in approving the piece.

The Times declined to comment to Fox News Digital. It has instead issued statements defending the article. Spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander insisted that Kristof's work was "backed by independent studies" and rejected any suggestion of retraction. A later statement claimed that the columnist had relied on "on-the-record accounts" and cited "several analyses documenting the practice of sexual violence and abuse conducted by various parts of Israel's security forces and settlers."

Kristof himself has acknowledged in the piece that there "is no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes." He has continued to defend his reporting online, including the section concerning dogs. Yet a canine behaviour expert, Michael S. Gould, told National Review that the notion of training dogs to rape prisoners was "absurd." "I’ve trained dogs to do a lot of things in my life. But no, that’s absurd," he said. "It’s absurd for many reasons: the sexual instincts of dogs, their anatomy, the actual physical concept of it."

This episode is a symptom of something deeper: the return of the blood libel in respectable Western guise, dressed up as opinion and granted the platform of a once-great newspaper. The protesters outside The Times understood what was at stake. When institutions of influence traffic in such falsehoods, they do not merely damage Israel. They license violence against Jews everywhere.

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ISIS inspired to attack NYC Jewish Center, a Pakistani national enters surprising plea

A Pakistani national charged with plotting an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack on a Jewish center in New York City pleaded guilty on Wednesday, federal prosecutors said.

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 21-year-old Pakistani citizen living in Canada, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.

Khan was arrested while attempting to illegally enter the United States through the northern border. He planned to inflict significant casualties, according to the Department of Justice. “Khan planned a mass shooting at a Jewish center in New York City, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attacks, with the explicit goal of killing as many Jews as possible,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said.

Khan considered Brooklyn’s large Jewish population as the “perfect” venue for his attack, authorities said, and claimed his plan could have resulted in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil since September 11.

“Muhammad Shahzeb Khan intended to come to New York City and carry out an ISIS-inspired act of terror against our city’s Jewish community,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch said. “The NYPD, in close coordination with our federal partners, was able to stop this dangerous plot before it could become a devastating attack.”

Investigators began tracking Khan in November 2023 after he posted ISIS propaganda videos on social media and openly expressed support for the terror group, according to authorities. Prosecutors said Khan began plotting terrorist attacks in the United States, sharing specific details with two individuals he didn’t know were undercover law enforcement officers. During those exchanges, Khan told an undercover officer he had a U.S.-based associate and planned to use AR-style assault rifles in an unidentified city to “target Israeli Jewish chabads,” prosecutors said.

About a year later, authorities say Khan shifted his focus to a Jewish religious center in Brooklyn, hoping to carry out his attack around the first anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7 terror attacks against Israel.

On social media, Khan encouraged what he believed were co-conspirators to acquire AR-style rifles and hunting knives to “slit their throats.”

A month before the planned attack, Khan attempted to cross the U.S.-Canada border with the help of a human smuggler. Authorities arrested Khan near Ormstown, Canada, approximately 12 miles from the border.

Khan is set to be sentenced on August 12.

This case is a stark reminder of the persistent threat posed by Islamist extremism, even in its apparently foiled manifestations. A young man, radicalized through the familiar channels of online propaganda, crossed borders and oceans in his mind, if not yet fully in body, to pursue the murder of Jews in the very heart of a great American city. The target was not random. It was chosen with precision, timed with malice to mark the anniversary of the October 7 massacre, and animated by the explicit desire to kill as many Jews as possible. That such hatred finds fertile ground among certain communities, and that it can travel so easily across continents, should trouble anyone who still believes that integration and modernity have tamed the older, darker impulses of religious totalitarianism. The authorities acted swiftly and effectively here. Yet the plot itself reveals once again how the ideology of jihad, with its insatiable appetite for Jewish blood, continues to seek new theaters in the West, undeterred by distance, law, or the decency of the societies it seeks to wound.

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Mamdani gives e-bikers the green light to kill

Comrade Mamdani and his signature grin

New Yorkers instinctively avoid frothing-at-the-mouth-street-corner lunatics. They don’t know if the psycho might suddenly come at them with a knife, so they cross to the other side to be safe. That's normal survival instincts.

But there’s no street to cross when the lunatic is the man they elected as their mayor. But if there was, they might get run over by e-bikers to whom Zohran (Madman) Mamdani gave license to kill.

Because the comrade wants to shield them from ICE, motorized bikers can now speed as fast as they want yet face only a civil ticket. This, even as he wants to slow auto traffic to a 10 mile per hour piddling crawl [perhaps to force them to give up their vehicles and take "free" buses and trains].

It isn’t breaking news that traffic lights and human life mean nothing to e-bikers. They zoom like bats out of hell up and down Avenues, and sometimes down the one-way uptown avenue. But with Madman Mamdani, they basically get a free pass.

New Yorkers elected this talent-lacking lunatic and got what the asked for, good and hard.

Maybe they will wake up next time, but I doubt it.

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NYPD experienced cops see no reason to stay with Mamdani's threat to cut overtime

More than half of the NYPD's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) detectives can punch out right now with full pensions, and thousands of sergeants, lieutenants, and captains are in the same boat. That has officials sweating bullets over the future of terror prevention and crime fighting in New York City, The Post has learned.

Forty-five of the 82 JTTF detectives, or 55 percent, have racked up 20 years on the job, enough for a full pension, according to union data.

Out of 5,121 active detectives citywide, 1,193, or 23 percent, are eligible to retire with full benefits after two decades of service. And why wouldn't they?

The NYPD could lose 57 percent of its detectives because they've hit that 20-year mark and can walk away, officials said.

Another 698 lieutenants, about 42 percent of the 1,669 total, could retire immediately. Add in 518 captains, or 66 percent of the 780, and 954 sergeants, roughly 22 percent of the 4,300 total, who could bolt at any moment, per union figures.

Cops are worried that these thousands of veteran bosses and street-smart detectives will head for the exits if Mayor Comrade Zohran Mamdani slashes overtime, which would gut their pensions, union officials said. And he hates cops, based on his history.

Officers hired after 2000 get a pension based on half their pay in their final year.

Comrade Zohran Mamdani

If they believe anti-cop Mamdani is going to chop their future overtime earnings, it makes perfect sense for them to retire now, lock in their 2025 pay under cop-friendly Mayor Adams as the pension base, and get out while the getting is good.

"If they have a big overtime year, they have to go," said Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro, who has been pushing Albany hard for a three-year average instead.He said a perceived lack of mayoral support, and the public anti-cop vibe it fuels, is also driving officers away.

"What's happening is people are getting in our police officers' faces," Munro said. "They're harassing them out there in the street."

Unions are "losing control of people leaving," Lieutenants Benevolent Association President Lou Turco said.

"Once you hit 20 [years], the department loses control," he said. "If I have a really good year of overtime and the department decides it wants to cut overtime, I have to leave."

Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro has been lobbying Albany to get pension rules changed to keep cops from leaving.

At the start of the year, officers got word they needed to cut overtime by nine to 11 hours in February as part of a cost-cutting push, The Post reported.

The reductions hit during the shortest and coldest month, when major events were scarce, a spokeswoman called it "management 101" at the time.

But cops "see the writing on the wall," said retired NYPD Detective Michael Alcazar, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who put in three decades before retiring in 2019.

"I did 30 years because it was a good job, I was getting good overtime, and I was enjoying it," he said.

"But now these guys are not because they're backfilling patrol," he said of veteran supervisors forced back to the street to cover manpower shortages.

"Detectives and lieutenants are back on patrol," he said. "You know when you've got 20, 25 years you don't want to put the bag back on and get on foot post, which is what they're doing."Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch testified at a City Council budget hearing this week that 2025 retirements are tracking right along with projections, based on the big hiring wave two decades ago.

She noted the NYPD had its "largest hiring year on record, more than 4,000 officers" last year.The department "not only outpaced attrition in 2025, we essentially brought the NYPD back to its authorized uniformed headcount for the first time in three years," Tisch said. The agency wrapped 2025 with about 800 more officers than the average over the prior three years, officials said.

"We are not in a hiring crisis anymore," she told the City Council. "We ended 2025 at a headcount of 34,769, just 250 shy of our authorized headcount."

"It's the senior people we do not want to lose," Sergeants' Benevolent Association President Vincent Vallelong said.

There are 220 sergeants who serve as bosses in the detective bureau but don't get special assignment money, which is basically lieutenant pay, he said.

"If they gave them special assignment money, I promise right off the bat these guys wouldn't leave," the union boss said.

Part of the headache with veteran officers walking away is that there's no one ready to step up and replace them, Munro said.

"I have senior detectives telling their kids, 'Do not come on this job,'" said Munro, who has two police officer sons. "And that's not the way this job used to be."

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