In what reads less like grassroots support and more like ideological laundering, the group “Jews for Zohran”—formed to deflect antisemitism accusations against anti-Israel NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani—is being spearheaded by the niece of a Marxist billionaire with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Meet Alicia Singham Goodwin, who helped launch “Jews for Zohran” in January as part of a coordinated effort to give Mamdani political cover while attempting to sway Jewish voters.
Marxist tycoon Neville “Roy” Singham‘s niece Alicia Singham Goodwin serves as political director of lefty nonprofit Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, which in January launched Jews for Zohran.“We, like, had our own voter file . . . and for phone banks that were only Jewish voters, and had, like, Jews talking to Jews,” Singham Goodwin, 33, said in a July 1 interview on WBAI. “We developed early on these talking points about antisemitism and a way for volunteers to engage.”
Singham Goodwin is no ordinary activist. Her uncle, Neville Roy Singham, is a tech billionaire and self-avowed Marxist who relocated to Shanghai after selling his company, Thoughtworks, for $785 million in 2017. Since then, he’s poured millions into activist organizations aligned with Beijing’s messaging. Her father, Daniel Goodwin, was an executive and legal counsel at Thoughtworks. Her mother, Shanti Singham,Roy’s sister, is a department chair at East China Normal University, a Chinese state-run institution, and an advocate for China’s Confucius Institutes abroad.
A leader in the NYC Democratic Socialists of America, Singham Goodwin’s social media shows her posing with Mamdani and with her uncle’s wife Jodie Evans, founder of the Singham-funded leftist group CodePink.
Since the $785 million sale of Thoughtworks in 2017, Roy Singham has installed himself in Shanghai and bankrolled groups pushing Beijing’s agenda.
The campaign is reportedly working with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander and Rep. Jerry Nadler to pressure more Jewish elected officials—such as Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Dan Goldman—into endorsing Mamdani, despite his long history of inflammatory rhetoric.
Former Queens Democratic City Councilman Rory Lancman warned of the dangerous precedent being set by mainstreaming Mamdani’s platform.
Former Queens Democratic City Councilman Rory Lancman called the effort “frightening” given Mamdani’s defense of the “globalize the Intifada” slogan.“The demonization of Israel leads to the demonization of Jews who support Israel, which is overwhelmingly the majority of Jews in the U.S.,” Lancman told The Post. “Receiving the endorsement of Jewish elected officials represents a normalization of the demonization of Israel and the demonization of Jews that naturally flows from that.”
Twitter had thoughts on the matter:
Meanwhile, Singham Goodwin remains at the helm of a campaign that uses Jewish identity not to defend Jews, but to shield a candidate who champions movements hostile to them. That the operation is tied to foreign-aligned billionaires and ideological operatives should be deeply troubling to anyone concerned about outside influence, antisemitism, or the weaponization of identity politics.
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