Israel: A Litmus Test?: The Mamdani affair – “Is it good for the Jews?”

Thoughts of a Jew

For those who do not know, there is an old Yiddish joke that whenever one is asked a question about anything, the answer is always the question, “is it good for the Jews?” Very much a persecuted minority kind of humor. But humor, like victimhood, dies hard. So as a Jew, I ask the question.