There have been so many spectacular crash outs before and since Mamdani won NYC. But the most intriguing has to be Debra Messing. The former Will & Grace star posted endlessly to her Instagram yesterday. But Messing, who supported Hillary Clinton and has always identified herself as liberal, was sharing content from far right organizations like CPAC, Breitbart, and Newsmax. In fact, she shared at least 100 posts to her Instagram story in one day alone.

Among those shared was a blatantly Islamophobic post which argued that while Judaism and Christianity encourage honesty, Muslims are “commanded to lie if it means spreading Islam.” It went on to say: “He’s revealing their goal: Mass conversion. These two opposing civilizations cannot coexist.” It doesn’t get much more paranoid, genocidal and racist than that, folks.

She even went so far as to share Trump’s antisemitic post in which he wrote: “Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!” Mamdani has always condemned antisemitism. But none of that matters to Trump or to Messing, apparently.

Since October 7th, 2023, Messing has been on a rampage. Her support for Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians became her only identity, going so far as to visit the genocidal apartheid state for photo ops with IDF soldiers.

Messing is a case study in the limitations of white feminism. When ones privilege is challenged in any way, the default is often to go to reactionary, racist or even fascist tactics of fearmongering and scapegoating. Messing’s transformation proves that Zionism, like all supremacist ideologies, always leads a person to the far-right.

It has been reported that Messing is currently on holiday in Tel Aviv, apparently finding solace from the melee in Manhattan by being even closer to an actual genocide taking place mere kilometres away.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

*photo is of Debra Messing, but not from this week.