New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was heckled by pro-Palestinian protesters Wednesday night when the mob overran a Union Square vigil marking the third anniversary of the horrific October 7 Hamas terror attacks.
At the event, at which many of the speakers at the event called Israel’s war against Hamas a “genocide,” the demonstrators swarmed the park, drowned out speakers with megaphones, waved portraits of Hamas mastermind Yahya Sinwar, and shouted “Death to the IDF!” Some chanted, “We don’t want no two state, we want 48,” “Traitor!,” and “Zohran, what do you say? How many boots did you lick today?”
The Union Square vigil was organized by the Left-wing group Israelis for Peace NYC. Pro-Palestinian protesters grabbed electric candles meant for mourning, mockingly sang “Hava Nagila,” and shouted, “We sent your people to hell on October 7!” while Mamdani stood alongside allies like anti-Israel U.S. House candidate Brad Lander.
When Mamdani left the vigil later, he was followed by the angry mob of pro-Palestinian protesters, who continued to scream at him, with some calling him an “opportunist piece of sh*t.”
To the untrained eye, it looked like a classic case of a politician caught in the crossfire between two warring sides. But while the socialist mayor loves to play the even-handed peacemaker mourning “all sides,” his own rhetoric proves he remains firmly in the tank for the anti-Israel movement as he attempts to camouflage his deep-seated hostility toward Israel.
While the agitators slammed Mamdani for supposedly “capitulating to Zionist pressure,” his official actions told a very different story.
On the exact same day, Mamdani released an official statement that paid lip service to the October 7 victims in a single line before he unleashed three blistering paragraphs accusing Israel of “devastating, ongoing genocide,” occupation, and “apartheid.” He even whined that New Yorkers’ tax dollars were funding “war crimes.”
On the same night that he attended the October 7 vigil, Mamdani was spotted dining at the only Palestinian restaurant in NYC’s Upper West Side.
The Jewish Community Relations Council slammed Mamdani for failing to bring the city together on the October 7 anniversary.
“It does not honor the dead to pit them against each other. It is shameful,” the Jewish Community Relations Council said. “Jewish New Yorkers across the five boroughs walked through metal detectors to drop off our children at preschool, thanked the police officers posted outside our synagogues for keeping us safe, tucked in our Jewish stars on the subway, and felt the gut punch of grief remembering the 1,200 innocent people who were slaughtered in their homes, in front of their families, and dancing at a music festival just because they were Jewish.”
Mamdani has built his brand on anti-Israel rhetoric. According to Palestinian-American socialist activist Sumaya Awad, within a month after the October 7 massacre, Mamdani called her and said, “We need to do more for Gaza. We need to organize a hunger strike for ceasefire, to pressure Biden to stop arming this genocide.”
From calling AIPAC “monsters” to suggesting he might arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he set foot in New York City, Mamdani has consistently pushed an anti-Israel agenda. He’s pushed legislation to fine Jewish charities donating to emergency responders in Israel, claimed the NYPD’s “boot” is laced by the Israeli military, and refused to affirm Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.
In May, Mamdani issued a public statement championing “Nakba Day.” Mamdani’s public commemoration of the Nakba — the Arabic term for “The Catastrophe” — focused heavily on the displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians during the founding of the State of Israel. By framing the event as a unilateral act of Zionist aggression, Mamdani completely erased the fact that Arab leadership initiated the hostilities, while simultaneously ignoring the systematic expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab lands during the same era.
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