After months of pretending to be laser-focused on affordability, New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani decided to base his final pitch to voters on complaining about “Islamophobia” in hopes that people would forget about his antisemitism and terrorist sympathies before the election.
On the day before early voting opened, Mamdani gave a grand speech about how he is the true victim of hatred in America.
“I thought that if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough in the face of racist, baseless attacks, all while returning back to my central message, it would allow me to be more than just my faith,” Mamdani said. “I was wrong. No amount of redirection is ever enough.”
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Mamdani dismissed all accusations of antisemitism against him by saying those accusations were only being levied against him because he is Muslim. He painted “Islamophobia” as one of the “few areas of agreement” in “an era of ever-diminishing bipartisanship.” Listen to Mamdani tell it, and the biggest problem with 9/11 was a supposed increase in “Islamophobia” in New York City. The real worry about 9/11 was that Mamdani’s aunt was scared to ride the subway or wear a hijab.
However, there was not a surge in anti-Muslim hate crimes after 9/11. Antisemitism remains the single-most unifying hatred in the United States, and that remains true in New York City, where 54% of hate crimes are antisemitic. Mamdani is going to this well as voting begins because he is receiving backlash for touting his meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. This comes after Mamdani, who has opinions on everything Israel does, declined the opportunity to say the Hamas terrorists who massacred 1,200 civilians on Oct. 7, 2023, should disarm and step down from power in Gaza.
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Mamdani tried to pretend that his primary concern was affordability in New York City, but he is making it clear that he is an identitarian through and through. Mamdani, who wants to weaken New York City’s police department, is making it clear that he will ignore or downplay any and all hate crimes against Jewish people in the city, and that any attempt to broach that subject will be met with his sob stories about being Muslim in the U.S. For Mamdani, 9/11 was about Islamophobia, and antisemitism is about Islamophobia, which is why he supports Hamas terrorists staying in power and defends terrorist slogans such as “globalize the Intifada.”
The next four years of a Mamdani mayorship will be all about how all criticism of him is Islamophobic and how he is the true victim of anything and everything, even when that is Jewish New Yorkers being assaulted in the streets. By the end of his term, you can expect New York City to look like the antisemitic pits that several European cities have become.