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Israel’s Overseas Ministry blasted Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist assaults, after he marked the day with a publish criticizing Israel and the U.S. and calling to finish what he described as “occupation and apartheid.”
“Two years after Hamas launched its barbaric bloodbath in opposition to Israel and the Jewish individuals, Mamdani has chosen to behave as a mouthpiece for Hamas propaganda — spreading Hamas’s pretend genocide marketing campaign,” wrote the ministry.
The Israel Overseas Ministry mentioned that “by repeating Hamas’s lies, he excuses terror and normalizes antisemitism.”
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The Israel Overseas Ministry referred to as New York Metropolis Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani (left) a “mouthpiece for Hamas propanda.” Pictured on proper are Hamas terrorists in Gaza. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket through Getty Pictures and Getty Pictures)
“He stands with Jews solely when they’re lifeless. Shameful,” the ministry added.
Fox Information Digital reached out to Mamdani’s marketing campaign for remark however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
In his assertion, Mamdani acknowledged that “two years in the past as we speak, Hamas carried out a horrific struggle crime, killing greater than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 extra.”
He wrote, “I mourn these lives and pray for the protected return of each hostage.”
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Mamdani criticized Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for having “launched a genocidal struggle” with a loss of life toll he mentioned, “far exceeds 67,000: with the Israeli army bombing properties, hospitals, and faculties into rubble.” (Deirdre Heavey/Fox Information Digital)
On the similar time, Mamdani additionally criticized Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for having “launched a genocidal struggle” with a loss of life toll that, he mentioned, “far exceeds 67,000: with the Israeli army bombing properties, hospitals, and faculties into rubble.”
“Day-after-day in Gaza has change into a spot the place grief itself has run out of language,” Mamdani wrote, including, “our authorities has been complicit by all of it.”
Mamdani additionally wrote that “the occupation and apartheid should finish” and that the U.S. “should maintain these accountable to account.”
“The final two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We should reply it by modeling the easiest: a relentless pursuit of our larger beliefs and an unwavering dedication to common human rights,” wrote Mamdani.
Jewish leaders and advocates have criticized 33-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani since he secured the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York Metropolis, notably for his hesitancy to sentence the phrase “globalize the intifada.”
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A professional-Gaza ceasefire tent encampment at Columbia College in New York Metropolis on April 28, 2024. (Getty Pictures)
After months of refusing to sentence the anti-Israel rallying cry, which, in keeping with the American Jewish Committee, “requires individuals from across the globe to take part in rising up in opposition to Israel,” Mamdani shared with enterprise leaders throughout a closed-door assembly in July that he wouldn’t use the slogan and would discourage others from utilizing it shifting ahead.
Nevertheless, his earlier file has left many nonetheless very involved.
“If Zohran Mamdani is elected, anticipate a Jewish exodus out of New York Metropolis,” Yuval David, an actor, filmmaker and Jewish activist advised Fox Information Digital.
In an interview with “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker in June, Mamdani was requested to sentence the phrase thrice however refused. He tried to justify his place, saying, “My concern is, to begin to stroll down the road of language and making clear what language I imagine is permissible or impermissible, takes me into a spot much like that of the president, who’s seeking to do these very sorts of issues, placing individuals in jail for writing an op-ed, placing them in jail for protesting.”
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Israeli troopers watch the northern Gaza Strip from southern Israel, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photograph)
“In the end, it’s not language that I take advantage of. It’s language, I perceive there are considerations about, and what I’ll do is showcase my imaginative and prescient for the town by my phrases and my actions,” he mentioned.
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Mamdani has additionally been criticized for supporting a slate of anti-Israel positions similar to supporting BDS, an acronym for boycott, divestment and sanctions, and sanctions in opposition to Israel.
After Mamdani’s Oct. 7 publish, the antisemitism consciousness group Canary Mission additionally criticized him, saying he “pays lip service to condemning the Hamas bloodbath” whereas he “reserves rather more vitriol for Israel, which he accuses of perpetuating a Nakba, occupation and apartheid on a daily basis- together with in his October 7 assertion itself!”
Fox Information Digital’s Deirdre Heavey contributed to this report.
