In a newly surfaced video, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani stands shoulder-to-shoulder with pro-Hamas activists, shouting “BDS, BDS” and demanding an immediate halt to all U.S. aid to Israel. The footage leaves no room for doubt: Mamdani’s loyalties lie with extremist agendas, not the safety and values of New Yorkers.
Mamdani isn’t hiding his radicalism. In the May 2021 rally, he led chants calling on city, state and federal officials to sever ties with Israel—funded, he proclaimed, by “your tax dollars.”
He boasts of co-founding Bowdoin College’s Students for Justice in Palestine, then rallies the crowd: “We are not asking—we are demanding” an end to American support for our closest Middle East ally.
He rails against U.S. foreign policy as “incomprehensible fealty” to Israel, even as Hamas terrorists murdered more than 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023. He has never condemned that slaughter.
Mamdani’s allies speak volumes. He has appeared alongside Siraj Wahhaj, an imam named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He shares platforms with Raja Abdulhaq, a self-described revolutionary who has openly called for Israel’s destruction.
Together, they preach Intifada. They demand “End All Aid to Israel!” They glorify an uprising meant to obliterate a sovereign democracy.
By championing these extremists, Mamdani reveals his true priorities: tearing down American-Israeli partnership rather than safeguarding New York’s diverse communities.
His argument that $3.8 billion in annual aid drains domestic programs is a cynical ploy. New Yorkers know our broken subway system and soaring rents have nothing to do with foreign assistance.
Mamdani proudly labels himself a “proud socialist” and flaunts an endorsement by the Democratic Socialists of America—a group committed to BDS and revolutionary politics.
This is not mere protest. It is an alliance with radical Islamists and violent agitators. It is a direct threat to Jewish, Christian, LGBTQ+ and moderate Muslim New Yorkers alike.
Mamdani has never denounced Hamas’s genocidal ideology or its brutal repression of Palestinian Christians and dissenters. He ignores the reality of Islamist tyranny while targeting our city’s elected leaders for “fealty” to Israel.
New York deserves leadership, not lip service to terror groups. We need a mayor who stands firmly with our allies, protects our citizens and rejects calls for violence and boycotts.
Zohran Mamdani’s record of solidarity with extremists disqualifies him from the mayor’s office. Voters must choose security, unity and common-sense patriotism over hollow radical posturing.
