With code words and dog whistles, Zohran Mamdani puts a pretty face on hate

Zohran Mamdani sure is good at putting a pleasant face on hate.

His platform’s pointed reference to boosting property taxes on white New Yorkers is “just naming things as they are,” he claimed Sunday, simply “an assessment of what neighborhoods are being under-taxed versus over-taxed.”

So why make a point of linking it to race, unless you’re talking code?

Similarly, he wouldn’t back down on his defense of the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which along with “from the river to the sea” is blatantly about opposing Jews as Jews and eliminating Israel.

But “that’s not language that I use,” he blurred: His language is about “a belief in universal human rights” — rights that, strangely enough, Israel actually respects but not the Palestinian territories.

Even his plans to hike taxes on businesses and the rich are somehow “a vision for every single New Yorker, including business leaders across the city.”

Sure, everyone has a place in his vision — but for many, it’s as his villains who’ll have to pay.

His supporters hear the dog whistles; the rest of us are supposed to be snowed by his aw-shucks claims about how he’s just being “frank” and perhaps a trifle impolite in “naming things as they are.”

Let’s see if he can keep up this nasty game all the way to Nov. 4.