The socialist candidate of New York explains a radical context in a resurfaced interview

An interview redone by the socialist candidate of New York Socialist, Zohran Mamdani, shows him explaining that the family in which he grew up “open” to be “radical” and suggest that socialism must be renamed.

“I think that, honestly, grew up in the family in which I grew up, I was quite open to what would be considered a radical from a very young age,” said Mamdani during the far left in 2020.

“I mean, from the start, my identities are already considered radical by a lot of dominant American political thought. So being a Muslim, being an immigrant, these are things that have already put you in the box of” the other “. And therefore it is not so far from a jump because each time you … defend the rights of others that share the same identity as you, so you are a radical, right?

Mamdani faced criticism on some of his positions taken as a young man, including Support an academic boycott of Israel and to start a chapter of students for justice in Palestine during his college days, as well as the past writings of his father, Mahmood Mamdani.

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The presence of Mahmood Mamdani’s social media is strewn with anti-Israeli positions referring to Israelis as “colonial settlers” and celebrating the idea of a “third intifada”. In addition, Mahmood Mamdani seated the council of an openly anti-Israeli court and once written in a book that suicide bombers “stigmatized as a barbarism brand”.

“Zohran Mamdani has built its political mark on the same radical ideology, filled with hatred and anti-American as his father, Mahmood Mamdani, has spent decades in promotion-one who demonizes the Jewish people and legitimate the anti-democratic violation,” said Brooke Goldstein, a human rights lawyer who specializes in anti-Semitism, declared to Fox News Norbital This Month.

“The Jewish hate of the Mamdani family’s cervix is fundamentally anti -American and violates the fundamental values on which our country has been founded – tolerance, equality and freedom. The strength of our nation lies in its diversity and its commitment to protect the rights of minorities. The visions of the anti -Semitic world threaten the peace and security of our communities.”

In the interview, the young Mamdani continued to deplore the criticism that the Democratic Socialists of America were confronted to support the BDS.

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The Democratic Socialist candidate, Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democrat primary for the mayor of New York, attended a Union DC 37 approval event on July 15, 2025, (Spencer Platt / Getty images)

BDS is described as “an international campaign to delegitimize the State of Israel as the expression of the right of the Jewish people to national self -determination by economically isolating the country through consumer boycott, commercial and government withdrawal of investment and legal sanctions”, ” According to Watch Influence.

Mamdani also explained in the interview its evolution as a “socialist”.

“”I think I’ve been a socialist for a long time, but I don’t think I got it in the terms of this label, “Mamdani said.” And I think that is something that I have not only internalized, but that I also became comfortable when I became an active member of the DSA of New York, which is an organization of which I am a member. I attended my first meeting in early 2017, but I have been a much more active member since 2018. “

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The candidate for the town hall of New York, the state representative, Zohran Mamdani (D-NY), stands with his mother Mira Nair, and Father Mahmood Mamdani while they celebrate during an electoral evening rally to the Great Craft Lic on June 24, 2025. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

Mamdani added that he hoped to rename the word socialism as more appetizing to the general public.

“”I think that, for me, often, people try to scare you so as not to kiss the word, and I think there is a lot of work that we must do to change our brand, because socialism in itself, the way I understand it, is a fight for the state to provide everything that is necessary to live a life worthy for each person of our state, “said Mamdani.

“This is something that when you explain this in this way, and when you talk about how it is applied, when you talk about housing, health care, health care, but I would say that we must extend this beyond and talk about public transport and talk about internet and talk about child care. People are receptive to that.”

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