Shapiro: Mamdani fails to condemn anti -Semitism, “ Leave space to extremists ”

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, criticized the candidate for Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani for not having condemned the “obviously anti -Semitic” rhetoric during the campaign to lead New York.

“I’m going to say this about Mamdani or any other leader,” said Shapiro in an interview with a Jewish initiate. “If you want to direct New York, you want to lead Pennsylvania, you want to lead the United States of America, you are a leader.”

“I don’t care if you are a republican or democrat leader or a democratic socialist leader,” added the governor. “You have to speak and act with moral clarity, and when the supporters say things that are obviously anti -Semitic, you cannot leave room so that you have to sit there. You have to condemn this.”

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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro criticized his Democratic colleague, New York town hall candidate Zohran Mamdani, for not condemning anti -Semitic rhetoric. (Getty Images)

“He seemed to carry out a campaign that excited New Yorkers,” said Shapiro, a possible presidential candidate in 2028, about Mamdani’s economic proposals. “He also seemed to lead a campaign where he left far too much space for extremists to use his words or so that he does not condemn the words of extremists who said obviously anti -Semitic things.”

Fox News Digital contacted Mamdani’s campaign to comment but did not immediately hear.

New York Brad Lander controller, who approved Mamdani after losing against him in the June Primary Democrat, came to his defense.

“Let’s be clear: Zohran Mamdani won the votes of a large majority of New York Democrats, including thousands of proud Jews like me, inspired by his vision of a city that everyone can afford and confident about their commitment to fighting anti -Semitism and hatred,” said Lander in a press release ,, According to Politico. “Josh Shapiro will not help ensure the safety of the Jews in New York or Pennsylvania by nourishing Trump’s account on our Democratic candidate for the mayor.”

The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, and the minority head of the Hakeen Jeffries Chamber, both Democrats in New York, have so far retained the mentions of Mamdani, expressing their concern about the comments of the mayor’s hope on Israel.

Mamdani attracted the counterpoup for refusing to condemn the slogan “globalize the intifada”. He has since been overthrown while courting the New York business leaders, saying that he would no longer use the sentence and discourage his supporters from using it. Meanwhile, the New York City College campuses, including the Columbia University, had to face anti-Israeli and anti-Israeli demonstrations and camps following October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas terrorists in Israel.

Mamdani defended the BDS, or the boycott, the divestment and the sanctions of the movement, saying to A mayor of May that the anti-Israeli movement “conforms to my heart of my policy, which is non-violence”.

The Socialist Democratic candidate, Zohran Mamdani, speaks during an approval event of the Union DC 37 on July 15, 2025, in New York. (Spencer Platt / Getty images)

New York was essential to control the majority of the house in the last three elections.

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Democrats in the districts of the battlefield have in particular attempted to distance themselves from Mamdani. This includes representative Tom Suozzi, Dn.y., who said that Mamdani’s main victory should be “strong alarm clock for the Democratic Party”. Representative Laura Gillen, another democrat of a swing district Long Island, said that Mamdani, a socialist, “is too extreme to lead New York”, accusing the mayor’s hope of promoting “a deeply disturbing scheme of unacceptable anti -Semitic comments”.

Punchbowl News Last month, some Democrats from New York of the Congress “literally fled” journalists asking for the candidacy of Mamdani.

Meanwhile, the progressives, including representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.y., and Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Adopted Mamdani, now considered the first row before the general elections of November.

Ocasio -Cortez and the Democratic Governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear – two other presidential contenders in 2028 – congratulated Mamdani’s main victory as a lesson for the Democrats.

While Mamdani’s campaign tried to call on the voters of the working class by stressing the economic injustice and the affordability of housing, he is the son of Ugandan of an Indian filmmaker and professor of the University of Columbia. Its proposals also echo the socialist and communist principles, in particular the grocery stores managed by the government, the rent freezes and the abolition of prisons.

Mamdani beat the former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo by more than 12 percentage points last month, guaranteeing the Democratic appointment to the Mayor of New York. Mamdani still faces Cuomo, who officially declared his candidacy for the independent town hall earlier this month. The outgoing mayor Eric Adams also presents himself as independent, as was the former federal prosecutor Jim Walden. The founder of “Guardian Angels”, Curtis Sliwa, is the Republican candidate for the town hall.

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During a Jewish heritage evening at the beginning of July, Adams encouraged Jewish New Yorkers not to flee the city and criticized Mamdani for saying that he would examine growing taxes in richer and “more” white “neighborhoods.

“You have the right to be in this city and anywhere in this country,” said Adams, according to The era of Israel. “Do not live in fear, do not live in anxiety. This city belongs to you because it belongs to each group that lives in this city.”