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“Democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani is making an attempt to smear one of his rivals by affiliation.
Yesterday the Democratic mayoral nominee claimed Wednesday that Andrew Cuomo not too long ago spoke to President Trump by telephone.
Mamdani claimed that the 2 males had been “conspiring about the fate of this city.”
For his half, former Gov. Cuomo has denied that he has even had a telephone call with the president.
But so what if he had?
Is the president of the United States — a man who gained the favored vote final November — so fringe that no candidate for mayor of New York ought to even converse with him?
That appears to be Mamdani’s view.
Keep away from fringe, wacko figures like, er, the president of this nation.
But if Mamdani is so eager on guilt by non-association, why not apply the identical commonplace to him?
To that finish it will be good to know why Mamdani has been so glad to advocate for, affiliate with and even marketing campaign alongside Mahmoud Khalil, previously of Columbia University.
‘A moral victory’
Readers will do not forget that Khalil was the previous scholar who was weirdly residing together with his spouse on scholar lodging however whose important occupation appeared to be main scholar protests at Columbia since October 2023.
It is Khalil’s group — Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) — that declared the Oct. 7 bloodbath to be “a moral, military and political victory” and declared that as an group CUAD was “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”
After discovering that Khalil — a international national — had lied on his visa utility, praised terrorists and arranged unrest in New York, ICE detained Khalil.
He promptly grew to become one of the great poster boys of the anti-American left.
They determined that no one in America might be free till Mahmoud Khalil is free.
Former Columbia University scholar Mahmoud Khalil, accompanied by his spouse Noor Abdalla, raises his palms as he arrives for a press convention outdoors the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York on June 22, 2025. AFP through Getty Images
They determined that Khalil had achieved nothing fallacious and was certainly a free-speech martyr.
It’s humorous the people some of us are keen to make into people heroes.
Since his release from ICE detention, Khalil has been enjoying the identical sob story as his spouse did whereas he was in custody — claiming that America had been exceptionally imply to him.
Apparently all he wished to do was to research within the US. Something he seems to have spent nearly zero time really doing — preferring the trail of agitation.
‘Had to reach’
Now, in an interview out this week, Khalil has as soon as again uncovered his actual views and intent.
In an interview with Ezra Klein of The New York Times, he talked about why he got here to America within the first place.
He mentioned that he was attracted to “the quality of education” on this nation, knew about Columbia as a result of of its repute in “Palestinian circles” and was happy to get a scholarship in 2018.
Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani during a information convention outdoors the Jacob Ok. Javits Federal Building on Thursday, August 7, 2025, in New York, N.Y. James Keivom
He didn’t precisely reward this nation for the dignity and alternatives it gave him.
In truth, he appears to have discovered one of essentially the most radical campuses in America to be not radical enough for him.
“The anti-Palestinian sentiment at Columbia was very obvious,” he now claims — a assertion so deranged that you just wonder if Khalil is aware of the distinction between up and down, earth and sky.
But it’s his statements about Hamas and the October seventh bloodbath which might be most disgusting. Asked about his response to the occasions of that day, he mentioned: “It felt frightening that we had to reach this moment in the Palestinian struggle.”
Apart from asking who the “we” is in that sentence, I’d love to know why Khalil thinks that raping ladies and massacring younger people at a dance celebration is a few sort of inevitability.
According to Khalil, “We [again] couldn’t avoid such a moment.”
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‘Palestinians are here’
Pushed flippantly on why it was crucial to homicide infants and kidnap pensioners, Khalil went on to clarify that the issue was that the Israelis have been making an attempt to make a peace and normalization deal with the Saudis.
Something that may have added to the extraordinary success of the Abraham Accords that had been signed with different Arab nations.
Khalil thinks that the concept of “normalization” is appalling.
In his view, the Palestinians “are not being heard” and so the atrocities and barbarism of October seventh have been an “attempt to tell the world that Palestinians are here.”
That’s definitely one hell of a means to inform people.
‘It was not inevitable’
In case it isn’t apparent, that is pure apologism for Hamas.
Moderate, peace-loving Palestinian voices comprehensively refute Khalil’s evil view. For occasion, the proud American, Gazan-born Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, mentioned yesterday, “Khalil invoked the repetitive and tired idea that the October 7 attack by Hamas was an inevitability, when the truth is far more straightforward and needs to be told by Gazan voices and those who are impacted by the war.”
“October 7th was a choice, not an inevitability! A choice that two psychopaths made from within Hamas’ military wing, Sinwar and Al-Deif. It was not inevitable that Gaza had to be the source of the worst single-day attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”
He went on: “Hamas squandered billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives for a fraudulent resistance narrative.”
Unfortunately, Khalil is one of many arrivals on this nation who’ve pushed that fraudulent narrative.
The identical people who declare, as Khalil went on to declare in his interview with Klein, that the bloody and murderous Second Intifada [2000-2005] was a principally “peaceful uprising.”
So, Mr. Mamdani, if Gov. Cuomo is to be smeared for having the audacity to even be reported to have spoken to the US president, what are we to make of you knowingly and repeatedly associating with a terrorist mouthpiece?
What are the voters of New York to take into consideration a candidate for mayor who’s so glad to advocate for terrorists for years and affiliate himself even now with somebody who makes such excuses for terrorism?
Any candidate for mayor who thinks President Trump is a more reprehensible determine than a Hamas apologist needs to be nowhere close to the working of this metropolis.
