Shortly after we released Bill Donohue’s letter to the House Oversight Committee chairman asking for a probe of the Epstein files with regard to alleged baby snatching and misconduct related to genetic engineering, we were contacted by the staff of Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) about a meeting on this subject next week. We are looking forward to it.
We are asking the House Oversight Committee to investigate accusations that Jeffrey Epstein was involved in baby snatching and misconduct related to genetic engineering, two offenses that have been overlooked in the on-going probes of his behavior.
To read my letter on this issue, click here.
In this episode of “Catholic League Report” Catholic League President Bill Donohue, Director of Communications Mike McDonald, and Policy Analyst Sean Leigh discuss NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s attempt to remove former Mayor Ed Koch’s name from the Queensborough Bridge claiming he did not do enough to fight the AIDS epidemic. They point out that Mayor Koch actually sought to stop the spread of the disease by closing the bathhouses, where infection was easily being spread.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is accusing the late New York City Mayor Ed Koch of mishandling the AIDS crisis and wants Koch’s name off the Queensboro Bridge; it was renamed for the Jewish mayor in 2011. But now the Marxist Muslim wants to scrub the bridge of any mention of Koch.
If anyone is responsible for AIDS, it is those who engaged in promiscuous lethal sex acts in the bathhouses. This is not an opinion. Here’s the proof. (For the citations, see my book, The New Freedom: Individualism and Collectivism in the Social Lives of Americans.)
There is no way to discuss gay liberation, and the transmission of AIDS, without mentioning the role of the bathhouse. Many gays in the 1970s and 1980s revered it. That is why they resisted closing them down, even after AIDS was uncovered in 1981. Gay writer Randy Shilts did not exaggerate when he said that bathhouses “were biological cesspools for infection.” He named the cause and the effect. “Bathhouses guaranteed the rapid spread of AIDS among gay men.”
In the mid-1980s, Bruce Mailman, owner of the four-story St. Marks Bath in the East Village, accused Mayor Koch, and others like him, of calling bathhouse owners “vile” and “merchants of death.” In doing so, they were allegedly demonstrating “a regrettable lack of sensitivity to our constitutional rights.” Where in the Constitution it ordains a right to have sex orgies in public facilities he did not say.
In a stunning admission, Mailman argued that “Closing bathhouses and other establishments catering to homosexuals will, as a practical matter, leave homosexual men with virtually no havens for assembly.” The New York Times agreed. So if we take away their beloved bathhouses, they will have no place to hang out.
A number of studies done after AIDS was discovered found that the majority of gays refused to practice safe sex. Was Koch to blame for that? Moreover, it was learned that the two categories of homosexuals who showed the least willingness to alter their sex life were the most well-educated and the bathhouse patrons.
The brainy ones believed, like Michael Foucault, the great French intellectual who frequented New York bathhouses, that AIDS was a social construct, a made-up disease designed to scare gays. He died of this “social construct.” As expected, the bathhouse patrons refused to tap their brakes and so they, too, wound up dead due to this “social construct.”
AIDS is not a social construct—it is a disease that claims the lives of irresponsible persons who refuse to exercise restraint. Ed Koch did not make these men irresponsible, and indeed if they had listened to his advice and closed the bathhouses, fewer of them would have died.
For Mamdani to blame Koch for this self-induced disease is obscene. He is contributing to the myth that those who practice promiscuous anal sex have nothing to do with their debilitating condition. That is a lie and he knows it.
Contact Mamdani’s communications director, Lekha Sunder: [email protected]
In this episode of “Catholic League Report” Catholic League President Bill Donohue, Director of Communications Mike McDonald, and Policy Analyst Sean Leigh discuss New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to not march in this weekend’s Salute to Israel Parade and how this is yet another example of his hostility towards Jews.
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For 61 straight years, every mayor of New York City has marched in the annual Israel Day Parade. But not this year. Zohran Mamdani, the Muslim Marxist Millionaire, told Jewish New Yorkers to take a hike.
“While I will not be attending the Israel Day Parade,” he said, “my lack of attendance should not be mistaken for a refusal to provide security or the necessary permits for its safety.” How magnanimous of him.
Had he tried to deny a permit, he would have gotten a licking in court. Ditto had he tried to prohibit a police presence.
As for safety concerns, it is ironic that this same man who fought a law providing a buffer zone around houses of worship (he yielded only when the vote was veto proof), and vetoed a similar law for schools, made sure that on Tuesday the streets near his mansion had a huge buffer zone—the police had barricades all over—keeping anti-Mamdani protesters away. I was proud to have spoken at the rally.
Quite frankly, the sight of Mamdani marching in a Jewish parade is on a par with the Imperial Wizard of the KKK marching in an African American parade. The mind boggles.
Mamdani is a particularly lousy fit to march in this year’s Israel Day Parade. Why? Because the theme is “Proud Americans, Proud Zionists.” He’s made it abundantly clear that he is not a proud American, and his hatred of Zionists is undeniable.
He has flatly said that Israel does not have the right to exist as a Jewish state. He has also said that “Israel is not a place. It is not a country.” That remarkable comment explains why people like Rabbi Marc Schneier recently said, “No one wants you at the Celebrate Israel Parade anyway. We don’t want you, your rhetoric, and your diatribe to ruin our proud day.”
I can sympathize with the rabbi.
For years Mamdani refused to march in New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade (he did so reluctantly at the last hour this year), and that is why many Irish Catholics like me didn’t want him to show up. He proved me right when he hosted a breakfast event on March 17 wherein he took the time not to honor St. Patrick, but to condemn what he said was the “genocide” in Palestine. He just can’t get Jew-hatred out of his head.
Let’s face it. There is no way Mamdani could march in a parade that celebrates Zionism without inflaming his radical Muslim fans.
Mamdani has long proven his anti-Zionist chops. Most recently, on his transition team he appointed Mohammad Karim Chowdhury, an extremist who has said that Zionists are worse than Nazis. He is not an anomaly. The ADL estimated that 20 percent of Mamdani’s transition team were tied to groups that are anti-Zionist.
Mamdani need not pout. After all, he will not feel unwelcome for long. The day after the parade marks the beginning of Gay Pride Month.
Happy Israel Day Parade!
In this episode of “Catholic League Report” Catholic League President Bill Donohue, Director of Communications Mike McDonald, and Policy Analyst Sean Leigh discuss comments made by Tex State Rep. and U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico that appear to go against Christian teachings and beliefs.
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Texas state representative James Talarico is running for a U.S. Senate seat in his home state. Bill Donohue wrote him a letter today about his strange brand of Christianity. To read it click here.
Contact him at: [email protected]
In this episode of “Catholic League Report” Catholic League President Bill Donohue, Director of Communications Mike McDonald, and Policy Analyst Sean Leigh discuss Bill’s participation in an interfaith rally protesting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. They talk about the rally’s highlights and how people of different faiths united together to speak out against Mamdani’s anti-religious policies and ideologies.
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Last night’s Interfaith Rally Against Extremism was held near Gracie Mansion, home of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Organized by EndJewHatred and attorney Brooke Goldstein, upwards of 1,000 protesters jammed 87th Street between York and East End Avenue.
Aside from a few hecklers, the only visible protesters who opposed the rally were a few dozen ultra-Orthodox Jews; they believe the Jewish state should not exist until the Messiah comes.
Most of the speakers were young and middle-age Jews. Also speaking was an African activist, a Muslim woman from American Muslim & Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council, and a Hindu man representing Hindus for Universal Rights; I was the only Catholic who spoke. I am grateful to Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch for inviting me.
All the speakers, including non-Jews, were very well received. Most of them focused their remarks on Mamdani’s anti-Semitic statements and policies. It is clear that he has offended legions of New Yorkers.
Chants of “Zohran Mamdani’s got to go,” and “Zohran, Zohran, you can’t hide, we charge you with hate and lies,” were heard throughout the 90-minute demonstration. Pro-America remarks, and shout-outs to the NYPD, were also commonplace (there was a large police presence). The American flag and the Flag of Israel were everywhere. It was clearly a very patriotic assembly.
I felt it necessary to participate for two reasons.
Jews and Catholics make up the majority of New Yorkers, and over the past few decades I have joined with Jews in protesting attacks on our respective religions, so when asked to speak at this rally, I did not hesitate.
The Catholic League is also highly critical of Mamdani’s radical politics and his animus against people of faith. That is why we have on the front page of our website a section, “Mamdani Watch”; it details our objections to him.
I closed my comments with a plea to religious New Yorkers across faith communities. We need to take a NATO Article 5 approach—an attack on one religion is an attack on all religions. It would behoove Mamdani to heed this message.
