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What NYC Mayoral Frontrunner Zohran Mamdani has said about Jews and Israel

Street scene in the Boro Park (often spelled Borough Park) neighborhood in New York City's Brooklyn borough. The neighborhood is home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside Israel, with Get this image on: PICRYL
Street scene in the Boro Park (often spelled Borough Park) neighborhood in New York City's Brooklyn borough. The neighborhood is home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside Israel, with Get this image on: PICRYL

 

Gabe Friedman

Times of Israel, July 2, 2025

“I’m not comfortable supporting any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else.”

Though he was elected to represent Astoria, Queens, in New York’s State Assembly, Zohran Mamdani — who last week pulled off a stunning upset in New York City’s mayoral primary — has called the Palestinian cause “central to my identity,” both in and out of politics.

Mamdani consistently and proudly associates with the pro-Palestinian movement in high-profile settings across New York City. Take Saturday night, for instance, when he took the stage with Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian protest leader who was detained by the Trump administration, at comedian Ramy Youssef’s show at the Beacon Theater on the Upper West Side.

So it’s no surprise that as Mamdani aims to become mayor of New York — the city with the largest Jewish population in the world — Jewish New Yorkers are closely scrutinizing what he has said about Jews, Israel and the conflict in the Middle East.

Below is a roundup of what Mamdani has said on a range of Israel and Jewish-related topics in a variety of interviews that have made headlines. ….SOURCE

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