The tensions of the Middle East spread in the mayor race in New York on Mamdani’s comments
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The tensions of the Middle East infiltrated the New York campaign path this week while President Donald Trump plans to hit Iran.
When he was asked for the host of the Podcast Balwark, Tim Miller, if the sentences “globalize the intifada” and “from the river to the sea” put him uncomfortable, the candidate for the town hall Zohran Mamdani explained that he does not support the prohibition language, by comparing this style of leadership in Trump.
“The word itself was used by the Holocaust museum when translation of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in Arabic, which is a word which means” struggle “.
The clip has since become viral because Jewish defense groups and influencers have criticized Mamdani for what they say to be a refusal to condemn the expression “globalizing the intifada”, a rallying cry that was used by pro-Palestinian demonstrators resistant to war in Gaza.
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Zohran Mamdani, New York State assembly and town hall candidate in New York, spoke during a rally in New York on May 10, 2025. (Reuters / Bing Guan)
“Operate the museum and Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Disinfecting it “globalization of intifada” is scandalous and particularly offensive for survivors. Since 1987, the Jews have been attacked and murdered under his banner. All leaders must condemn its use and the abuse of history ” Taken on MamdanI in an article on social networks.
According to the American Jewish CommitteeThe expression “calls on people around the world to participate in the rise against Israel”.
Former governor Andrew Cuomo, which is widely considered to be the favorite of the New York town hall race, called on all the candidates to “denounce” Mamdani’s comments to affirm that the language is “subject to interpretation”.
“It is not only, it is dangerous. At a time when we see anti -Semitism increasing and in fact witnessing violence against the Jews, which leads their death to Washington DC or their burning to Denver, we know too well that the words count. They have fueled hatred. They feed the murder. Like the American Holocaust museum, all the leaders or those who present the use of this battle.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo testifies to the selected subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic in the house office of the Rayburn house on September 10, 2024, in Washington. (Kent nishimura)
A young Jewish couple who worked at the Israeli embassy was killed while leaving the capital’s Jewish museum in Washington last month. The suspect shouted: “Free Palestine!” in police custody. The Colorado police also responded to a terrorist attack at a pro-Israeli event which injured several in Denver last month.
Mamdani, who is in the running to be the first Muslim mayor of New York, was criticized by his competitors, including Cuomo, for his opinions on Middle East policywhich has reached a boiling point this week in the middle of the ongoing strikes between Israel and Iran.
During the mayor’s debate, Mamdani said: “Israel has the right to exist”, but he refused to agree that Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state “but rather” as a state with equal rights “.
The demonstrators greet the Palestinian flags at Washington Square Park in New York on Friday, May 3, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
The representative of the New York Democrat, Tom Suozzi, who approved Cuomo, criticized Mamdani’s comments, writing: “In Israel, the first and second intifadas, were terrorist attacks to kill the Jews during a sustained period.” Globalize The Intifada “is not” subject to interpretation “.
Another Democrat in New York, the representative Ritchie Torres, has stacked criticism, saying: “Even if we stipulate – for a concern for the argument – which` `globalizing intifada ” is not a call to violence (even if it is clearly), what counts is not the intention of the speaker but the way in which the sentence is received by many in the Jewish community.
An emotional mamdani accusations addressed That his comments were rooted in anti -Semitism at a press conference on Wednesday.
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“I receive comments that say that the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim. I receive threats to my life, on the people I love,” said Mamdani, before adding: “Anti -Semitism is a real problem in this city, and it was difficult to see him armed by candidates who do not seem to do political points.”
But Elisha Weisel, son of Elie and Marion Wiesel, authors and survivors of the Holocaust, told Fox News Digital that “globalization of intifada is the change of code for Kill the Jews” and joined Cuomo’s call for all candidates to denounce the controversial sentence.
“I cannot see in the soul of Zohran Mamdani, so when it is doubled that the globalization of the intifada is a good thing, I can really say if it is simply naive or bad. Neither one of them is a good characteristic for someone in charge of our city. We must keep the anti-Semites away from the mayor’s office,” added Weisel.
The Mamdani campaign did not immediately respond to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.
