The New York Town Hall candidate Mamdani returns to the position of “Globalize The Intifada”

New York Town Hall candidate Zohran Mamdani told business leaders at a closed -door meeting this week that he would not use the slogan “globalize the intifada” and discourage others from using it in the future, Fox News confirmed.

After months to refuse to condemn the anti-Israeli rallying cry which according to the American Jewish Committee“Call people from around the world to participate in the rise against Israel,” Mamdani told more than 140 business leaders than a conversation with a Jewish woman on how this sentence triggers memories of terrible incidents had changed their mind.

The New York Times Mamdani first pointed out Comments Tuesday after his meeting with business leaders at the partnership for New York in the offices of Tishman Speyer at the Rockefeller Center.

Wednesday in Washington, DC, at another closed-door meeting organized by representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.y., on how to carry out a successful digital campaign, the sentence condemnation was absent from the conversations between the national democratic leaders who participated.

The sentence “ globalize the intifada ” arouses tensions on the New York campaign path while the conflicts of the Middle East are raging

New York Town Hall candidate Zohran Mamdani briefly speaks with journalists as he leaves the Dirksen Senate office building on July 16, 2025, in Washington, DC (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

When asked by Fox News if there was a discussion on Mamdani’s new discouragement in the sentence, Ocasio-Cortez said: “No, it did not come.”

Several Democratic legislators have confirmed that Mamdani did not share details on his radical policy program for New York, but rather shared his ideas on the management of an effective digital campaign by emphasizing affordability.

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A visibly frustrated representative Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., Told Aishah Hasnie de Fox News that Mamdani “had not even spoken of” the sentence during breakfast.

“I’m going to have this discussion with him later, but it did not come. But I mean, I know a lot of people who are deeply careful with Israel who are also very worried about looking at hunger,” she said.

Representatives André Carson, d-ill., And representative Jerry Nadler, Dn.y., also confirmed that the subject was not resisted.

The New York town hall candidate, Zohran Mamdani, would be the first Muslim and millennial mayor of New York if he wins in November. (Reuters / Bing Guan)

The slogan “Globalize The Intifada” aroused tensions within the Democratic Party since Mamdani was requested by the host of the Podcast Balwark, Tim Miller, if the sentence made him uncomfortable. Mamdani said he did not support the police or the language ban when he has repeatedly asked by journalists if he would condemn the sentence.

Unsurprisingly, his competitor of the town hall race, former governor Andrew Cuomo, joined the choir of Jewish defenders and coalitions who criticized Mamdani’s refusal to condemn the sentence.

“It’s not just false, it’s dangerous,” Cuomo said in a statement shortly after the viral clip. “There are not two sides here,” he added.

But while Mamdani returns his position to others using the sentence – popular among the pro -Palestine demonstrations that broke out at Columbia University and other university campuses while the War of Israel against Hamas in Gaza is raging – National Democrats began to weigh on the controversial slogan.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., speaks to the NYCLU rally for the rights of workers and immigrants at Foley Square, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in New York. (APPHOTE / Angelina Katsanis)

Ocasio-Cortez, an early Mamdani campaign, told Fox News from Fox News on Wednesday that Mamdani shared critical information on how to “level all our games in terms of technique” during “communication and organizing skills breakfast” in Washington on Wednesday.

While several national Democratic leaders came out in support of Mamdani, including Representative Adriano Espailt, Who supported Cuomo in the Democratic primary – non -exceptional skeptics have not approved the 33 -year -old candidate.

The head of the House minority, the representative Hakeem Jeffries, Dn.y., and the leader of the Senate minorities, Senator Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., confirmed plans to meet Mamdani in New York later this week, but the two Democrats have further approved the Socialist Democratic self-democrat.

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Ocasio-Cortez also urged those who have unanswered questions on Mamdani to “get to know him” before “do evaluations from what you can see on television”. She applauded her caucus to “present herself in good faith” on Wednesday to give it a fair chance and to demonstrate a “will to listen and to make assessments for themselves”.

Mamdani’s campaign did not respond to the request for additional Fox News Digital comments.

Olivia Patel of Fox News, Bryan Llenas, Tyler Olson, Chad Pergram and Aishah Hasnie contributed to this report.