Another video of New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani railing against Israel has surfaced, with him slamming city officials for supporting the Jewish state.
“Let us say from this day forward we will stand in solidarity with Palestinians and we will hold every single person who has power in this city, in this state, in this country, accountable for their incomprehensible fealty to the Israeli state,” said Mamdani, a newly minted Assemblyman representing Queens in the May 2021 video.
Standing alongside pro-Hamas militants, he then leads the crowd in chants of “BDS,BDS” standing for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctioning of support for Israel from other countries.
He also says: “We have elected officials who are taking paid for trips to Israel. Their going there paid for by your tax dollars. They show up at the Israel Day parade and they say stand in solidarity,” adding again that the message to send them was to Boycott, Divestand Sanction.
“That’s what we’re asking for, we are not asking for it, we are demanding it. So I stand in solidarity with my Palestinian family, I will stand in solidarity with them until the occupation is over,” he adds in the video.
The footage was taken at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City, and was provided to The Post by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a nonprofit research group, founded by author Steven Emerson.
The rally was two years before Mamdani appeared at another demonstration fervently shouting about defunding “Israeli settler violence” several weeks before the Hamas terror attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023.
At the spring, 2021 rally, Mamdani boasted about co-founding the first Students for Justice in Palestine group at Bowdoin College, where he was a student from 2010 to 2014.
The group led anti-Israel protests on campuses across the country in the wake of the October 7 attacks which left 1,200 Israelis dead.
Mamdani urged the crowd to put pressure on elected officials while protestors held up signs saying “End All Aid to Israel!” and “There is Only One Solution Intifada Revolution,” referring to an uprising a Muslim uprising and the destruction of Israel.
Emerson, an expert on Islamist terrorism, said Mamdani “selectively ignores the persecution and killing of tens of thousands of Palestinian Christians, LGBTQ+ people and Palestinian dissidents,” to The Post this week.
Mamdani also said that America’s military aid to Israel siphons cash away from social programs at home. “$3.8 billion dollars every year sent from the United States to Israel…while our family here are homeless, while our family here do not have money for schools,” he shouted.
“We are sending money to weaponize the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] even more than they already are.”
Mamdani was joined in the protest by other radicals, including Siraj Wahhaj, a Brooklyn imam who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and once acted as a character witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the terrorist who organized it. Mamdani recently came under fire for campaigning with Wahhaj.
Raja Adbulhaq, who has called for the destruction of Israel as well as the US, also spoke at the 2021 rally. He is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and would later participate in the pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia University in April 2024, according to reports.
“Allah says one thing that the fight in Palestine, the fight in Jerusalem, the fight in Gaza is the fight for all of us,” Abdulhaq told the protestors. “Fight this fight.”
Mamdani echoed the sentiment, and reminded his followers that his political campaign was backed by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party — Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA has backed him in the New York City mayor’s race.
“Some of you may know I’m a proud socialist and I’m a proud member of the New York City DSA , and what brought me to that organization is the endorsement by that organization of BDS is the belief that there is no distinction between the fight here and the fight there,” he said.
Emerson claims Mamdani is less concerned with Palestinian human rights than taking a stance against Israel.
“If he was truly concerned about the Palestinians, he would have condemned Hamas’ dictatorial and murderous rule since the terrorist group violently took over following Israel’s total evacuation of the Gaza Strip in 2005,” he said.
