Dan Bilzerian, Republican Candidate for the 6th Congressional District in Florida

(Note.  In my Part II post on May 4, 2026, I mentioned Graham Platner, an antisemite running for Senate in Maine.  He is a Democrat who is expected to be facing Republican Susan Collins in the general election.  I pointed out that Platner not only had the support of the Leftists like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, but also Senate Jewish Minority Leader Chuck Schumer...and even the official Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.  I guess the only thing that matters to the Democrats is getting back control of the Senate, regardless of how morally despicable a candidate might be.)  

What do we know about Dan Bilzerian?  Even more despicable than Platner.  According to Wikipedia, he supports Hamas, apparently not being bothered by the rape and torture and murder of women and children.  He called now deceased Yahya Sinwar, former head of Hamas, a "hero."  He claimed that Jews caused the famine in Ukraine, killed JFK, created "transgender," were behind 9/11, were behind the Iraq war, and are the cause of most of today's problems.

I feel like we could ask this guy about every bad event throughout history, and he would say the Jews were responsible.  He says Jews promote "Jewish supremacy" (not sure what that is), and rape and steal.  Then we have the usual nonsense, such as Jews inventing genocide, denying the Holocaust (or claiming 6 million were not killed), and that Jews don't have the DNA of the ancient Hebrews, as they are all Ashkenazi.  

Oddly enough, he says that he is 12% Jewish.  He has had various run-ins with the law, including kicking a woman in the face when she was on the ground.  In 2018, he flew to Armenia to get dual citizenship, to fight with the Armed Forces of Armenia.  

According to AI, he said that if he ever became President, his first act would be to declare war on Israel.  Of course, he would cut off all aid to Israel.  He accused Israel of being a terrorist state.  And he would like to kill Israelis, and would put boots on the ground to fight Israel if he was President.

And, according to a post on Facebook, Bilzerian is alleged to have gone to Qatar to solicit people to kill Israeli ministers.  But that post could not be verified.  Another antisemite, Nick Fuentes, claims Bilzerian did ask about killing Israeli government ministers and conservative Jewish commentator Ben Shapiro.  Bilzerian appears to have denied these allegations.  Unfortunately, we don't tend to have the most upstanding people as witnesses to what people like Bilzerian might say. 

One cannot help but wonder how someone could have such a distorted and warped and hateful worldview.  I wonder if he has any idea how much Israelis have contributed to the world, scientifically and medically.  And how much Israel has helped the United States with intelligence, and militarily (not just with Iron Dome and missile defense, but with improving American military hardware that gets battle tested all too often unfortunately.)  Israel's Ministry of Diapora Affairs posted a global "Top 10 Prominent Antisemitic Influencers."  Bilzerian has a huge following, and was ranked No. 1.  Hardly a surprise. 

The good news - the Republican Party does NOT support him.         

Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York City

(Note.  I have previously posted about Mamdani on July 4, 2025 (a 2 part post), July 27, 2025 and January 18, 2026.  These posts can easily be located by typing "Zohran Mamdani" in the search bar of the web version of the blog.  This post deals with a very recent event of a couple days ago.)

On this past Friday, just before the beginning of the Jewish Shabbat, Mayor Mamdani saw fit to use the Mayor's office to post the following:  "Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed."  Along with his comments is a link to a video.  It is a story told by an elderly woman of having to leaving her home in Jerusalem.  She tells us that she had to flee her home because "the Zionists were coming into Jerusalem."  

The video also tells us that "The Haganah, Irgun and Lehi militias, among other others, destroyed more than 400 Palestinian villages and cities, killing thousands of Palestinians and carrying out dozens of massacres.  May 15 is the annual commemoration of the Nakba.  For Palestinians, their displacement and Nakba continue to this day."  (The Haganah later became the IDF - the Israeli Defense Forces.  The Irgun and Lehi were more aggressive and controversial offshoots of the Haganah.)  I admit that I do not have all the details of the war.  But when Mamdani says thousands of Palestinians were killed and villages were destroyed - it was a war!  Started by the Arabs.  

What's missing in this sad tale?  The truth.  But first, some history.  After the Allied victory in WWI, the League of Nations gave a mandate to Britain to control the area known as Palestine.  Prior to the war, the Ottoman Empire controlled the area for about 400 years.  There was never a country called Palestine.  In November, 1947, with the British having turned over control of their mandate to the UN, the UNGA voted what came to be known as a "partition" plan - dividing the mandate area into a Jewish state and an Arab state.  But let's be clear.  The Arabs said they would never accept the existence of a Jewish state, so they refused to accept the partition plan.  The Jewish people accepted the partition plan.

What the Arabs did was attack and kill Jews after the UN voted for the partition plan - even before Israel declared their independence on May 14, 1948.  When people like Mamdani say Nakba, it means catastrophe.  In other words, the creation of Israel was a catastrophe.  When Mamdani says the Nakba continues to this day, he is saying that Israel's existence is unacceptable.  What else do we know?  When Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, announced Israel's independence on May 14, 1948, this is what he said:  "WE APPEAL - in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months - to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel, to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions."

Imagine that.  In the midst of attacks on the Jewish people, Ben Gurion offered an olive branch.  The Arabs refused.  On May 15, 1948, at least five Arab countries attacked Israel, in an effort to wipe the new State of Israel off the map and kill all the Jews.  The Arab countries told the Arabs of Israel to get out, saying they would be able to return after the Arab victory.  The Jews were badly outnumbered.  And their weapons were few.  But they prevailed, and the new country of Israel survived.  It was, indeed, a miracle.  After their defeat, the infuriated Arab countries either expelled their Jewish citizens, or made it so unpleasant for them to stay that the Jews left.  Over 800,000 Jews were displaced.  

Does Mamdani mention the 800,000 Jews displaced?  No.  Does he mention the thousands of Jews killed during Israel's war of independence?  No interest.  Does he point out that the UN has made these Palestinian Arabs "permanent refugees," and that no other group has ever been designated "permanent refugees?"  Of course not.  Because every other refugee group, in every war, has simply had to move on and make new lives for themselves elsewhere.  Just like the Jews who had lived for centuries in the Arab countries had to move on.  They received no "permanent refugee" status.  Does Mamdani care about any of this?  Obviously not.  

Does Mamdani mention that the Arabs were given a state by the UN but they refused?  No.  Does he say that the Arabs could have had their own state now for 79 years had they accepted the partition plan?  No again.  And, of course, he makes no mention of the offer by Ben Gurion to the Arabs.  Nor does he ask this woman why she didn't return to Jerusalem in 1949 when the war ended.  Because from 1949 until the Six Day War of 1967, Jordan controlled Jerusalem.  So why didn't she return?  Mamdani can reasonably be called not just an antisemite, but a Jew hater.