Adam Tzach’s father was born in Israel, he still has relatives there and he was horrified by the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, that left 1,200 people dead. That morning, he texted relatives to say he was praying for them while he also worried about friends in the Israeli military.

But the Jewish Hewlett resident thinks Israel’s response to the attack went too far, killing tens of thousands of people, including many children, and turning much of Gaza into rubble.

Tzach, 23, volunteered in Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York City mayor and is reflective of the nearly one-third of Jewish voters — many of them young — who supported him, according to exit polls.

"The amount of people who are being killed, especially on one side, after Oct. 7 has just been, to me, almost insane," said

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