Last week, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial titled “Mamdani and the Antisemites.” The next day, an article published in the conservative National Review called the mayor’s behavior “shameful.” The day after that, Republican city council member Vickie Paladino accused Mayor Mamdani of creating a “very dangerous environment.”

You might wonder what dangerous, shameful, and antisemitic thing New York’s mayor stood accused of doing. Perhaps he personally committed a hate crime or stood on a street corner screaming antisemitic slurs at one of his constituents?

As it turns out, this chorus of condemnation was inspired by the mayor saying through a spokesman that he was “deeply opposed” to a real estate event at New York’s Park East Synagogue that promoted the sale of real estate in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. That’s it.