A video from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office shows a man and a woman from the Office of Mass Engagement asking people to testify at the rent guideline board hearings. The man, named “Mohammed,” wears a keffiyeh, which is popularly seen as fealty to the Palestinian Arab cause.
The video shows them knocking at the door of a home and Mamdani answering, saying, “Tell me more.”
New York, let's get organized.
In a city of over 8 million, just 400 people showed up to speak at the last Rent Guidelines Board hearing — where decisions about rents are made.
We can do better.
If we want a city that works for tenants and landlords alike, we need New Yorkers… pic.twitter.com/M6qBtebnu7
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) April 29, 2026
🚨In this overedited video, Zohran Mamdani is trying to scam NY’ers into thinking that if a random keffiyeh wearing Mohamed randomly knocks on your door, it’s okay.
Except it’s not, it’s extremely alarming. Let’s not a normalize a txxrorist scarf.
pic.twitter.com/96tf0O9OAX— Manhattan Mingle (@ManhattanMingle) April 30, 2026
Of course, Mamdani is the same guy who in 2023 celebrated the “first annual Keffiyeh Cup in Astoria Park—an all-day soccer tournament fundraiser for @UNRWA , one of the leading providers of emergency relief for Palestinians in Gaza.”
Last weekend, we held the first annual Keffiyeh Cup in Astoria Park—an all-day soccer tournament fundraiser for @UNRWA, one of the leading providers of emergency relief for Palestinians in Gaza.
A 🧵. pic.twitter.com/eJPIyjKEnN
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) December 11, 2023
UN Watch has noted of UNRWA:
In April 2025, the Israeli government revealed that more than 1,400 UNRWA Gaza employees — approximately 12% of its workforce — were members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The finding was based on verified Israeli intelligence obtained during military operations in Gaza, some of which was declassified and made publicly available online. The released documents included Hamas’s own personnel records: internal recruitment databases, military training rosters, and administrative files.
UN Watch also published “The Unholy Alliance: UNRWA, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad,” a compendium of how the terrorist groups influenced UNRWA.
Mamdani’s elevation of the keffiyeh makes perfect sense considering that last month, he celebrated terrorist sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil. Mamdani proudly took to social media to announce that he welcomed Khalil, an anti-Israel activist, to Gracie Mansion to break the Ramadan fast. “Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,” then-DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin announced last year.
Mamdani’s hatred of Israel has gone so far as saying, “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.”
Within hours of taking office, Mamdani signed an executive order revoking all mayoral directives issued after September 26, 2024. This action effectively axed several key protections for the Jewish community and measures aimed at strengthening ties with Israel:
- IHRA Definition: He scrapped the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, a tool used by more than 30 countries to identify anti-Jewish hate, particularly when it targets Israel’s right to exist.
- Anti-BDS Measures: He lifted Executive Order 60, which barred city entities from boycotting or divesting from Israel.
- Safety Buffers: He revoked directives aimed at creating protest-free zones around houses of worship, a move previously intended to protect synagogues from targeted demonstrations.
Mamdani’s early actions align with a political history defined by intense opposition to Israel. As a student, he founded a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and as a state legislator, he sponsored the “Not on Our Dime” Act, which sought to strip New York charities that provide aid to Israeli causes of their tax-exempt status.
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