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2025-06-26 Home Front: Politix
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After NYC primary upset, anti-Israel activist Mamdani vows not to ‘abandon my beliefs’
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[IsraelTimes] Beating Cuomo in Democratic mayoral primary, ‘globalize the intifada’ advocate who’d arrest Netanyahu says he’ll work to ‘understand the perspectives’ of those he disagrees with
New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani,
…the red diaper baby of ethnic Indian immigrant academics (Columbia U, natch) parrots all the usual anti-Jew/Israel shibboleths — BDS, Israel in Gaza = genocide — while insisting he is also a Shiite Moslem, suggesting an important Iran connection…
after winning a stunning upset in the city’s Democratic party mayoral primary on Tuesday night, vowed to adhere to his views on foreign affairs, while grappling with other perspectives.
Mamdani is a longtime anti-Israel activist who alarmed many Jewish New Yorkers with his rhetoric and policy promises during the caustic campaign for the mayoral primary. His leading opponent, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, had leaned into the Jewish vote and his pro-Israel bona fides throughout the campaign. The winner of the Democratic party primary typically wins the general election for mayor.
“There are millions of New Yorkers who have strong feelings about what happens overseas. I am one of them, and I will not abandon my beliefs or my commitments grounded in a demand for equality,” Mamdani said at a raucous victory party in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City after Cuomo conceded.
“You have my word to reach further to understand the perspectives of those with whom I disagree and to wrestle with those disagreements,” he said.
Mamdani did not explicitly mention the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but has said that the plight of the Palestinians is central to his identity and the reason he got into politics. He is a longtime anti-Israel activist who set up his campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine at Bowdoin College in the 2010s and, as a state assemblyman, introduced a widely-criticized bill to strip the nonprofit status of organizations with any links to Israeli settlements and identified as an anti-Zionist. The day after the October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel, Mamdani focused his criticism on Israel.
During the campaign, Mamdani refused to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state; defended the phrase “globalize the intifada”; vowed to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, although he would have no legal authority to do so as mayor; and repeatedly accused Israel of genocide.
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