New York town hall candidate Mamdani tried to cancel Charlie Kirk’s event in 2023

The candidate for the socialist town hall of New York, Zohran Mamdani, once signed a letter labeling the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last week, as a “extremist” while calling a place to block his ability to speak in New York.

In June 2023 press release By several local democrats, Mamdani and his colleagues published a statement “in response to studios of reasons accepting to host a extreme right extremist event on June 17 in Tammany House in Long Island City”.

“As elected representatives representing the Queens of the West, we are deeply disappointed by the decision of studios motif to organize an event by extremist groups of the far right Blexit and Turning Point USA in their place of Triplex Lic / Tammany house in Long Island City,” said the press release.

“Provide a platform for the type of transphobic and sectarian views held by the guest speakers Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk and others go directly to the diversity and inclusiveness that we are dear as New York and insults to each member of our community.”

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The candidate for the socialist town hall of New York, Zohran Mamdani, on the right, once called to cancel a Charlie Kirk event. (AFP via Getty Images; Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The elected democrats continued to call on the studios of reason to “follow the head” of another local place which was originally to welcome the event but “canceled their reservation after the community spoke of” fanaticism “of the organizers of the event.

“Hatred has no house in Queens, New York, or elsewhere and certainly not here in Long Island City,” the press release said.

The planned event took place in accordance with Plan and Kirk published a video an activist removed after trying to disrupt the procedure.

GOP deputy, Jake Blumencranz, who represents the 15th district of New York, told Fox News Digital that Kirk had been assassinated for exercising his freedom of expression and that elected officials should be forced to “count with the culture of hatred which was authorized to grow”.

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Zohran Mamdani, candidate for the town hall of the city of New York, on the left, raises the hands of Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, during a campaign event. (Getty Images)

“We cannot ignore that my colleagues, the member of the assembly Zohran Mamdani and his radical DSA allies, tried to silence Charlie Kirk in New York, putting pressure on the premises to cancel his events,” said Bluncranz.

“This state of mind of censorship and public shame fuels the hostile climate that we see today and corrodes the American ideal that discourse must be encountered with more speeches, no suppression.”

Kirk’s death sparked a storm of political debate on freedom of expression in the United States and Bluncranz told Fox News Digital that he believed that Mamdani, who holds a dominant survey in the race like the next mayor of New York, was hypocritical about the word.

“What is most revealing is Mamdani’s double standard: the discourse he rushes to protect – as a globalize the intifada ”, which many consider a call to violence against the Jews – from tears to the American fabric, while the discourse he fights vigorously to silence is all type that keeps our democracy in life,” said Blumenran.

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A crown placed by mourning people outside the United States Embassy in Pretoria on September 11, 2025, after the fatal shot of Charlie Kirk. (Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images)

Blumencranz continued: “New Yorkers must ask themselves what it would mean to have a” chief silencer “like Zohran Mamdani at the Town Hall. New York deserves a` `in-chief ”, who will defend this leader and will bring people together-clearly, Zohran Mamdani is not this leader.”

Fox News Digital contacted the Mamdani campaign to comment.

Mamdani publicly approached the assassination of Kirk, telling a group of supporters that the shooting was “horrible” and “yet another victim of armed violence in a nation where what should be a rarity has turned into a plague”.

In an article on X, Mamdani said he was “horrified” and said that “political violence had no place in our country”.