It's fascinating to see the resemblances between the smear capaign against Mamdani and the one that took place 35 years ago against David Dinkins, the first black mayor of NYC. In both cases, right-wing figures, especially Zionist ones, falsely played the antisemitism and Islamic/black takeover card, in order to de-legitimise those candidates. Incidentally, there was no such campaigns when Abraham Beame or  Edward Koch, both Jews, were nominated and won the mayorship.