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https://www.frontpagemag.com/mamdanis-false-charge-of-israeli-apartheid-2/

When New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani accuses Israel of “apartheid,” he is ignoring the fact that in Israel, there is no distinction in the civil and political rights enjoyed by Jews and Arabs. Arabs serve on the Supreme Court, sit in the Knesset, go abroad as diplomats representing Israel. Until recently, the head of Israel’s largest bank, the Bank Leumi, was an Arab. Jews and Arabs work together in offices and factories. Jewish and Arab medical personnel treat Jews and Arabs in the same hospitals. Jews and Arabs play in the same orchestras, and on the same sports teams. Jews and Arabs start businesses together, everything from restaurants to high-tech start-ups. There is only one difference in the treatment of Jews and Arabs in Israel: Jews must, while Arabs may, serve in the military. When  makes his outrageous remarks, either his political rivals or journalists should question him at once, prepared to hold his claims up to critical inspection. So far, even as they denounce him for his charges against Israel, including his most outrageous charge, that the IDF is committing “genocide,” they have failed to state exactly why those charges are baseless. More on Mamdani’s charges can be found here: “Mamdani says he’ll recognize Israel ‘not as Jewish state,’ claims genocide in Gaza during debate,” Jerusalem Post, October 17, 2025:

“I want to be very clear that the occupation is a reference to international law and the violation of it, which Mr. Cuomo has no regard for since he signed up to be Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal defense team during the course of this genocide,” Mamdani said.

There was no “occupation” of Gaza on October 6. The IDF entered Gaza on October 7 to destroy Hamas in a war for Israel’s survival. That does not constitute an “occupation.” Mamdani claims that by fighting in Gaza against a terror group that murdered 1,200 people, almost all of them Israelis, Israel is “violating” international law. There is no “international law” that forbids a country from striking back at an enemy that has murdered its citizens. Think of the American attack deep inside Pakistan to kill Osama Bin Laden.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/mamdani-incites-muslim-rage-and-resentment-against-the-united-states/

In what at first glance seems to be nothing more than just a saccharine, sentimental display of performed outrage and feigning victimhood, Zohran Mamdani, the New York City Mayoral candidate slated to become the Big Apple’s first Muslim mayor, instead pitched a dangerous performance that can only be described as a subtle incitement to elicit Muslim rage and resentment against the United States of America.

In an address to his constituents on Friday, October 24, Mamdani listed a tearful bevy of indignities that Muslims faced in America in the wake of the Islamic attack against the United States on September 11, 2001. He emotionally recalled how his late aunt was fearful of wearing her hijab on the New York subway for fear of reprisals. He was happy his mosque was not burnt to the ground, but he complained that to be a Muslim in New York was to suffer endless indignities.

He bemoaned the fact that not every Muslim in New York was treated the same as every other New Yorker. He claimed that Muslims lived in the shadows, that they had been asked to settle for less, and forced to settle for whatever little they received. Specifically addressing his fellow Muslims in the audience, he asked them if they would remain in the shadows or step into the light.

In what can only be described as hyperbolic defiance, he listed the number of days remaining until the Mayoral election and then stated: I will not change who I am, how I eat, or practice the faith I am proud to call my own.”

And further: “I will be a Muslim man each of those days.”

Let us begin with the last the last proclamation, that he will be a Muslim man for each of those days. What is the fundamental intention of a mayoral candidate who is supposed to be representing the residents of New York City regardless of their race, religious creed, ethnicity, or any personal identity they align with in making such a declaration? What is his message?

Antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour isn’t just playing a big role in Zohran Mamdani’s NYC’s mayoral campaign — she’s been a political mentor and close friend of the silver-spoon socialist for nearly a decade and helped guide his far-left hatred of Israel, according to a foreign intelligence report and critics.

Mamdani’s propensity for making pie-in-the-sky Marxist campaign promises date back to his high school days when he made a failed bid for student government with a “fresh juice for all” campaign.

However, it was the Hamas-supporting, Palestinian-American firebrand Sarsour who helped nuture the 34-year-old into the radical mayoral frontrunner he is today, according to a foreign intelligence service report obtained by The Post.

”Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy is linked closely within a network of Islamist figures and organizations with extremist associations,” says the document, which names notorious Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who once urged “jihad” on New York City.

“His reliance on Linda Sarsour as a mentor, and her own allegiance to . . . Wahhaj, situates Mamdani within the ideological chain of influence extending from Wahhaj’s radical teachings to the political sphere of New York City,” the document reads.

Sara Forman, executive director of the pro-Israel New York Solidarity Network, called Sarsour “one of the main antagonists for normalizing anti-Israel rhetoric in New York’s public sphere.”

“Much of what Zohran Mamdani now says about Israel and Zionists would have never been politically acceptable in New York,” said Forman.

“Linda Sarsour is an absolutist, committed to the destruction of the State of Israel with every fiber of her being,” she added. “Zohran Mamdani’s brand of socialism is intertwined with, and indistinguishable from, Linda’s and certainly a reflection of her decades of work to delegitimize Israel.”

Mamdani was “largely unknown in New York political circles” until joining the Sarsour-founded Muslim Democratic Club of New York in 2017, the report notes.