Mayor Zohran Mamdani sparked outrage Wednesday by using the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 slaughter of Israelis to instead attack the Jewish state of “war crimes” in an “ongoing genocide.”
Hizzoner dedicated less than a quarter of his statement to the “unthinkable loss” suffered when “Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others” — with the vast majority instead devoted to his ongoing attacks on Israel.
“The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza,” he said, decrying the Palestinians killed in response to the Hamas attack being marked Wednesday.
“That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing.
“Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment,” said Mamdani.
The biased statement by the mayor — already widely criticized for making Jewish New Yorkers feel unsafe with his ongoing attacks on Israel — was quickly met with horror.
“What he is trying to do is hijack the only day we have for the victims and survivors. He’s trying to hijack the day to talk about attacking Israel,” Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon told The Post:
Here’s the latest as the world marks the 3rd anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel:
“It’s like on 9/11 you talked about victims and al-Qaeda terrorists. It’s basically taking the only day we have for victims and trying to attack Israel with propaganda. He’s dangerous and sophisticated. He will go to both ceremonies and try to say he feels for both losses of life.”
Mesneshe Shapiro, a former adviser to Mamdani’s predecessor, former Mayor Eric Adams, called the statement “incitement and electronic violence against New York’s Jews.”
“He doesn’t get to hide behind Hamas’ made-up stats to justify his open Jew-hatred.”
