NYC’s advisor: “petrified” Jewish voters from Mamdani become mayor

EXCLUSIVE: Inna Vernikov, a republican advisor in New York, told Fox News Digital that the voters of her strongly Jewish district were “petrified” on the prospect of the socialist Zohran Mamdani becoming the next mayor of the city.

“”He’s a guy who wants to globalize intifada, “Vernikov told Fox News Digital.” We have never seen anything close to New York. We have the largest Jewish population in America, and I will tell you that the Jews tell me that they will flee from New York, and the Jews have contributed a lot to the city and this country, and the idea that they are now afraid of living here is unacceptable and unprecedented, it never happened here. “”

Mamdani was widely criticized for his anti-Israeli positions Dating from his college days, When he founded the students of his school for justice in the Palestine section. In recent weeks, Mamdani has been criticized on a perceived reluctance to condemn the expression “globalizing the intifada”, that he Said now He will not use and discourage others from doing.

Mamdani’s father, Mahmood, also faced a meticulous examination of his past writings and comments, which included a Social media message Celebrate a potential “third intifadah against colonialism of the colonists” in Israel.

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The candidate for New York town hall, Zohran Mamdani, and the city counselor in New York Inna Vernikov. (Getty / Fox News Digital)

“Intifada is a call for violence, we saw what happened for two intifadas where people were murdered, innocent people lost their lives,” said Vernikov, adding that “there is a lot of fear in the Jewish community if this guy becomes mayor.”

Vernikov, who is Jewish, told Fox News, the digital people she had spoken in her district was “petrified” from Mamdani in the process of becoming mayor.

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

Many Jewish groups have come out Solid opposition Against Mamdani’s candidacy. Brooke Goldstein, a human rights lawyer, told Fox News Digital earlier this month that “Zohran Mamdani had built his political mark on the same radical ideology, filled with hatred and anti-American as his father, Mahmood Mamdani, has spent decades to promote-who demonizes Jewish people and legitimizes violence anti-democratic. “

Fox News Digital contacted Mamdani’s campaign to comment.

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The Democratic candidate for town hall Zohran Mamdani speaks in the primary democratic debate of the Democrat mayor of New York at the NBC studios on June 4, 2025. (Yuki Iwamura-Pool / Getty Images)

Vernikov challenged Democrats who began to approve Mamdani, who Experts say could cause problems with the Democratic Party if he won in November and criticized their excuse that “he is the Democratic candidate”.

“I am curious, I have a question,” Vernikov told Fox News Digital. “If this democratic candidate would be like a member of the KKK or would call for the annihilation of the black community, you always knew, hide as hard as now, and I think the answer would be no, but when it comes to the Jews, it’s okay.”

“So, it is really hypocritical, unacceptable and disgusting, and they approved it one by one. While the Republicans fight anti -Semitism every day for the names of the Jewish Americans, the Democrats support an anti -Semitic.”