Under his leadership, all law-abiding New Yorkers, not just Jewish residents, will face escalating danger. What follows is a detailed account of who Zohran Mamdani really is, where he comes from, and the network of Islamic and Far Left extremists he empowers.
Canary Mission A vote for Mamdani is a vote for a pro-Hamas, anti-American disruptive agenda for NYC, including the antisemitic violence that historically has accompanied it. It is a vote for the failed policies of decarceration and defunding the police, policies that have been proven to increase crime in cities across America, particularly against Jews and other minority communities.
Mamdani has been a regular and prominent figure in NYC’s disruptive anti-Israel protest scene that has predominantly been engineered by Within Our Lifetime (WOL), an extremist and violent anti-Israel and anti-American group whose activists have been behind multiple attacks on Jews.
Mamdani has also been a regular activist at protests organized by Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), an antisemitic, anti-Zionist group known for inventing and promoting conspiracy theories about Israel. The son of anti-Israel ideologues, he has spent his burgeoning career taking their extremist ideology to the streets.
The “Holy Land Five” were convicted of funneling $12 million to Hamas – the terror group behind the Oct 7 massacre.
The gov’t declared it the largest terror finance case in U.S. history. Mamdani sent his “love” to them.
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After the October 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 Israelis and the kidnapping of 250 more by Hamas, Mamdani went into action:
- On Oct. 8, 2023, just one day after the attack, Mamdani released a statement that slammed “Netanyahu’s declaration of war” and called for “ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid.”
- On October 13, 2023, less than a week after the massacre and before any substantial response from Israel, Mamdani joined a Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) protest outside the Brooklyn home of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. The protest deceptively called for a ceasefire (i.e. Hamas victory) to “Stop the Genocide of Palestinians,” which was non-existent. Protesters, including Mamdani, were arrested for blocking traffic and charged with disorderly conduct.
- Fresh out of jail, on October 14, 2023, Mamdani proudly tweeted he was at yet another protest with JVP blocking the entrance to the New York Stock Exchange.
- On October 27, 2023, just three weeks after the attack, Mamdani was front and center at a menacing anti-Israel protest at Grand Central Station, which was designed to shut down NYC’s giant transportation hub. At the protest, Mamdani again called for Israel to stop a so-called “genocide.”
Less than a month after the October 7 massacre, Mamdani staged a five-day hunger strike in front of the White House in late November, shoring up his creds among anti-Israel activists and unions.
His anti-Israel activism continued unabated. As noted by Politico, “Mamdani … spent the year leading up to his campaign sharpening his pro-Palestinian bonafides,” which started in college when he founded a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter (see below).
Commenting on SJP’s pro-Hamas encampment movement, Mamdani said, “I’ve been proud to be the first, and to my knowledge, the only mayoral candidate to have said that I would not have sent the police onto Columbia and CUNY’s campus.”
On March 13, 2024, long after the cooperation between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA) and Hamas was proven, Mamdani feigned ignorance about UNRWA’s ties to Hamas, posting, “Israel has yet to provide any proof of these claims, but the allegations alone have led to UNRWA having $450M in donor funding suspended thus far.”
“Zohran Mamdani is running the most deceptive, divisive, and antisemitic campaign in the history of New York City,” said NY Assemblymember Sam Berger.
Speaking to Politico, Berger said, “On October 8th, 2023, while Jews were still being butchered, Zohran Mamdani condemned Israel and couldn’t even bring himself to mention Hamas. Zohran just spent 3 hours sipping espresso with an influencer who has used his platform to refer to Jews as bloodthirsty pigdogs, Orthodox Jews as inbred, and has said it doesn’t matter if rape happened on October 7th.”
As part of his platform, Mamdani has pledged to cut off private charitable funding and halt arms shipments to Israel, continuing the anti-Israel agenda he pursued as a state assemblymember.
As a NY assemblymember, Mamdani has a proven record of taking action against Israel. In May 2023, he introduced into the assembly the “Not on Our Dime” Act, a bill that would essentially make it impossible for non-profit charities to send money to Israel.
The details of the bill are alarming. The bill, which comes with penalties starting at $1 million, includes:
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Giving the New York State Attorney General the power to fine charities found in violation of the law
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Allowing individuals to bring lawsuits against these charities
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Canceling the tax-exempt status of any organization found in violation
In May 2024, Mamdani reintroduced an expanded version of the bill. The new version explicitly prohibits organizations from funding Israeli military actions in Gaza and the West Bank. To date, the bill remains under consideration and has not been brought to the floor for a vote.
When Mamdani introduced the bill, 66 centrist and progressive Democratic assembly members – a majority of Democrats in the assembly – signed a letter of condemnation against it. The legislators argued it unfairly targeted Jewish charities and raised concerns about religious discrimination. Some called it antisemitic.
Other organizations in support of the bill include the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Westpac Foundation.
Mamdani spoke about the bill in an extensive interview in The Nation with virulent anti-Israel activist Mohammed El-Kurd (who famously said at a London rally after October 7, “We must root (Zionism) out of the world! … We must normalize massacres as a status quo!”). In the interview, Mandani characterized the legislation as a “very modest” legal ask.
El-Kurd later joined Mamdani for a town hall promoting the bill.
According to Free Beacon, not only has Mamdani vowed to arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he arrives in New York City, he recently declined to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada”—a call for violence—instead describing it as “a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian rights.”
Mamdani also compared the concept of “intifada” to Jewish resistance to Nazi Germany, saying that “the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic, because it’s a word that means ‘struggle.’”
The comments earned Mamdani a rebuke from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which issued a statement Wednesday morning. “Exploiting the Museum and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to sanitize ‘globalize the intifada’ is outrageous and especially offensive to survivors,” the statement reads. “Since 1987 Jews have been attacked and murdered under its banner.
A number of Columbia faculty members who have donated to Mamdani’s campaign signed a letter just weeks after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in which they attempted to contextualize the slaughter.
Mamdani’s Sponsors: Antisemites & Israel Haters
One of Mamdani’s most prominent supporters is antisemitic, pro-Hamas activist and fellow card-carrying socialist and political operative Linda Sarsour. Mamdani and Sarsour met in 2017 while they were campaigning for socialist Khader El-Yateem, who focused his campaign around his support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Sarsour has asserted that “Israel … is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everyone else” and that “Jesus was a Palestinian.” In 2012, she tweeted, “There’s nothing creepier than Zionism.” The tweet remains on her feed to date. In 2018, she referred to Israel as an oppressor and told Muslims to stop “actually trying to humanize the oppressor.” Her associations and speaking engagements include a bevy of antisemitic Islamists from the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) to Louis Farrakhan.
Like Mamdani, she is a purveyor of the antisemitic “Deadly Exchange” conspiracy theory (see below).
A long-standing proponent of BDS, Sarsour is playing a “huge role” in Mamdani’s election bid – from fundraising for him on her large social media platforms to pushing her followers who previously joined the “Uncommitted National Movement” and “Leave it Blank NY” – in which Mamdani took part – to register as Democrats so they can vote for him.
Speaking to the New York Post, Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic consultant, said Sarsour and the rest of the “anti-Israel far left” see Mamdani as a “great opportunity” to seize control of NYC.
“This is their moment to try and capture the city’s government and turn it into what they want, which is less about progressive politics and more about Jew-hating than anything else,” he said. Linda Sarsour is not running him because he’s a great progressive and believes in some kind of redistribution of wealth. She’s running him because he’s a great antisemite,” Sheinkoft added.
Further leaning into his antisemitic, anti-Israel bona fides, Mamdani tapped Hamas-sympathizer Representative Rashida Tlaib to fundraise for him by sending out a text blast to potential donors. The blast mentioned Mamdani’s support for “Gaza” and also condemned Cuomo for being on “the legal team defending [Israel] Prime Minister Netanyahu for war crimes…”
Mamdani’s most high-profile endorsement came from fellow Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
In her June 5th endorsement, AOC urged “the left to unite to defeat Andrew Cuomo” and ranked Mamdani first on her ballot. AOC praised Mamdani’s “real ability on the ground to put together a coalition of working-class New Yorkers,”conveniently ignoring how his anti-Israel extremism would alienate Jewish voters who make up a significant portion of that working class.
Mamdani is a proud member of the anti-American Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and was the keynote speakerat the DSA’s national convention in Chicago in 2023.
History of Spreading Antisemitic Conspiracies
Speaking at an anti-Israel protest in NYC in February 2024 (eight months before he declared his candidacy), Mamdani railed against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) during part of his speech, saying, “We are here today because AIPAC is suppressing American public sentiment! We are here today because they are subverting American democracy!”
However, when he posted the speech on his Instagram account, he edited out his remarks about AIPAC. Canary Mission called him out on X for his deceit, posting his unedited speech and writing, “LOOK what NY State Assembly Member@ZohranKMamdani left out of his speech when he posted it on his Instagram feed … A blatant antisemitic lie that a Jewish lobby group is controlling the US.”
On May 18, 2025, a two-year-old video resurfaced in which Mamdani falsely claimed that NY taxpayers were footing the bills for NY lawmakers’ trips to Israel. The remarks came at a May 11, 2021, pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest, where he also led chants for “BDS.” Clearly proud of his stance, Mandani posted the video on his Facebook page.
Zohran Mamdani’s last-minute, carefully crafted concession that Israel has a right to exist – but not as a Jewish state – sent shockwaves through his extremist base and exposed the precarious balance he has tried to maintain between his political ambition and his ideological extremism.
While some of his supporters defended the statement as a calculated move for electoral viability, others, like Within Our Lifetime (WOL) leader Nerdeen Kiswani, see such pragmatism as a betrayal.
Naya we talk about britain and wonder why or how can the british vote for a mudslime. soon we will wonder how New York can vote for a mudslime. this will make your lives not nice in your city. why is this happening, are the people of New York stupid or suicidal…i dont know but soon all will know and it wont be nice then take a good long sober look at britain or europe and you will see what will cause your downfall.
Believe me there are millions of idiots in NYC. I’m guessing they want to be like Patterson NJ. Supposedly that rag head is leading in the Socialist Criminal d party polls. NYC will lose everything. I can’t believe they are that f*cking stupid. I’ve got to have a cigarette.
With all of this bullshit that we get placed in front of us a joint would be better .
the new mayor of NYC. get used to it it big city dwellers love misery
Oy Vey?
Electing this POS will be the final nail in the coffin of the once great city of New York. And if the people of NYC are stupid enough to vote for this guy, they deserve whatever comes from electing him.
Fear not. It ain’t called Jew York for nothing. He might win in Minnesota, but he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Hell in New York. I’m not a New Yorker, nor American but I see it like this. Even, when the jihadist loses, he’ll still have plenty of leftover campaign contributions and be set for life. Then along comes the next raghead.
It’s NY. Chances are, he’ll win.
I agree. I moved to NJ a couple of years ago(my family was originally from here),between the rag heads & ILLEGALS, this entire section of the country is lost. They’re cuddling up in Pennsylvania too. Do not under estimate the stupidity of the people in this area of the country. I know a lot of Jewish people here who BELIEVE the koranimals are peaceful. They haven’t read their books apparently.