Douglas Murray in Mamdani, Khan: “Stay outside foreign policy”

The British commentator to support Israel, Douglas Murray, said that New York town hall candidate Zohran Mamdani should “remain” from foreign policy, as is the mayor of London Sadiq Khan.

“Khan decides to make declarations on the international scene. Curiously, the work of the mayor of London does not include a summit in foreign policy,” Murray told Fox News Digital on the fringes of the Israel Campus (ICC) coalition.

“Sadiq Khan does not realize what he does when he is just an idiot. Mamdani seems to have the same idea, is that the mayor of New York should get involved in foreign policy, which they should not,” he continued. “It’s a big mistake.”

Khan and Mamdani castigated the offensive campaign of Israel in Gaza. Mamdani earlier this month told a group of business leaders that he would no longer use the expression “globalizing the intifada”, after having repeatedly refused to recover its past use of the term. The sentence encourages the widening of Palestinian uprisings against Israel.

The democratic legislator “no longer spoke” with a family on the support of Israel

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, on the left, and the candidate of the mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani. (Getty Images)

Murray said Khan “was not a progressive, just a sort of opportunistic and heartless villain”.

President Donald Trump rekindled his quarrel with Khan during a visit to Scotland during the weekend, calling him “nasty person” who did a “terrible work”.

“The international community – including our own government – must do much more to put pressure on the Israeli government to stop this horrible and insane murder and to leave vital aid.

“The United Kingdom must immediately recognize the Palestinian state. There cannot be a solution to two states if there is no viable state to call Palestine.”

Murray called Mamdani as a “opportunistic politician” who “would like to get in power by promising things from New Yorkers whom he cannot bring and not to approach the things that New Yorkers need.”

“His position as so-called democratic socialist, would make sure that New York, who has been suffering for many years now with a brain drain, a talented drain, a money train, a drainage of money would become even further.”

During a debate in June before Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic primary, the town hall candidates were invited to visit. A number of them said that Israel before Mamdani said he would stay in New York.

“I would stay in New York. My plans are to contact New Yorkers through the five districts and focus on this.”

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

Mamdani offered ideas like free buses, free childcare services and the food markets managed by the government. When asked if he thought that Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state, he said, “I believe that Israel has the right to exist.”

When he supported the point “as a Jewish state”, he said: “As a state with equal rights”.

Murray criticisms also extended to British Prime Minister Kier Starmer, who recently declared that the United Kingdom would recognize a Palestinian state in September if there was no progress on a cease-fire in Gaza.

Starmer’s announcement followed French president Emmanuel Macron making the same announcement.

Khan had urged Starmer to immediately recognize a Palestinian state, arguing that the British government “had to do much more to put pressure on the Israeli government to stop this horrible insane murder.”

Jacob Baime, CEO of Israel on Campus Coalition, said that his group sought to organize himself as a counterweight to pro-Gaza demonstrations “well funded and well organized” on campuses. (ICC)

“A Palestinian state will not emerge because the British Prime Minister or the President of France called on it,” said Murray. “It is only a question of making a political signal to the domestic population, and I think, part of the immigrant population of these countries to show that we are on the side of the Palestinians, not on the side of Israel, because it is a very cynical and cynical decision. It does absolutely nothing to bring peace to the Middle East.”

In the middle of a series of famine reports among the population of Gazan, Murray and the 700 students gathered at the top are not discouraged in their support for Israel. Murray said it was Hamas, not Israel, who was the architect of mass hunger.

New Yorkers are skeptical after Zohran Mamdani stands out from the expression “globalizing the intifada”

“People have to understand that the story of Hamas is not only,” let’s kill the Israelis to our advantage. “The story of Hamas is” to ensure that the Gazans die of hunger and also suffer from their own advantage, “said Murray.” This is a very counter-intuitive story for many people to understand. But Hamas does not take care of the Palestinian dead. In fact, he wants it because (Hamas) thinks he can use a story to go against Israel, go against America. “

The Washington summit, DC, came while students supported by Israel feel a feeling of renewed justification with the Trump administration which rages on pro-Gaza demonstrations which, according to them, have turned into anti-Semitic territory.

More than 700 pro-students gathered in Washington, DC, this week. (ICC)

The State Department revoked the visas of the students they believe to engage in a “pro-Hamas” conduct and the Trump administration has drawn federal funding from universities which, according to her, did not sufficiently add up anti-Semitic conduct during these events.

At the same time, the nation faced an increase in anti -Semitic acts and political violence. Two months ago, a pair of staff from the Israeli Embassy was shot in Washington, DC, while attending an event with the Jewish Museum capital.

The summit, in turn, had increased the security protocols and a police presence keeping outside.

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“We are not going to be intimidated by violent actors. We are not going to be intimidated by these patient demonstrators,” said ICC CEO Jacob Baime, in an interview with Fox News Digital.

He declared that pro-Gaza demonstrations were “highly professional, highly organized, coordinated and well-funded operations” and ICC sought to bring together Jewish students to “correspond to this level of organization, the level of sophistication”.