And this surprises you because…?
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations blasted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his message marking the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, comparing the mayor’s framing of the massacre to “turning September 11 into a day of mourning for al-Qaeda terrorists.”
Read more Nobel Peace Prize winner pokes Trump, deserves a rebuke
Ambassador Danny Danon accused Mamdani of trying to “hijack” the anniversary after the mayor commemorated the more than 1,100 Israelis killed by Hamas before pivoting to accusations of “genocide,” “occupation” and “apartheid” against Israel.
“‘Mamdani-ism’ — an attempt to hijack the anniversary of October 7 and turn it into yet another propaganda attack against Israel,” Danon wrote on X in response to the mayor’s post.
“It is like turning September 11 into a day of mourning for al-Qaeda terrorists,” he added. “We will not let this happen. We will remember those who were murdered, and we will never forget who was behind this massacre.”
If anything, Danon was being kind and restrained:
Graphic: X Post
Notice that Mamdani’s opening sentence acknowledges not only the suffering of Israelis and American Jews, but the Islamists—including himself and his wife—who rejoice at their slaughter and suffering. How can we know that? Mamdani uses the false genocide narrative, citing the ridiculously false civilian death tolls provided by Hamas. If Israel really were genocidal, why wait until after 10-7? They have nuclear weapons and could have wiped Gaza out in a single detonation, yet they instead provide the Gazans with food, fuel, medical supplies, care, and jobs.
Assertions of ambulance and residential building bombings are Islamist propaganda. Israel, apart from every nation, has always gone out of its way to avoid civilian casualties, a kindness complicated by Hamas, which purposely hides its arms and terrorist troops behind civilians and in hospitals and schools.
And virtually every one of those “journalists” has been exposed as Hamas terrorists.
Rather than turning away food shipments, Israel has shipped millions of pounds of food and medicine into Gaza, most of it stolen by Hamas, who routinely shoot civilians trying to escape the carnage.
It’s not uncommon for Democrats to criticize everything Republican presidents do, including necessary wars, but Mamdani takes it beyond expected Democrat lies into Islamist propaganda by calling Israel’s justified self-defense, and our support of it, war crimes.
The lies continue in that Gaza is not “occupied.” Israel gave that land to them, with expensive, functioning greenhouses and other infrastructure, which they destroyed. Unlike the Arab nations of the Middle East, there is no apartheid in Israel, where Arabs live freely and serve in the Knesset.
Mamdani only honors the jihadist dead. He’s an Islamist with Communist ideology mixed into an infernal soup. Here he was, only a few weeks before 10-7, leading anti-Semitic chants:
Graphic: X Post
Even then he was an Islamist propagandist, calling for the genocide of Jews.
If Hamas, if all Islamists want to live in freedom, safety, and dignity, all they need do is love their children more than they hate Jews and other non-Muslims and focus on building a civilized society rather than buying arms and spending all the money credulous Western governments give them on terror tunnels.
Read more Sophie Cunningham drives the woke crazy; which is a good thing
Mamdani is not a lone Islamist. His wife, Rama Duwaji, like all devout Muslim women, follows his lead:
New York City first lady Rama Duwaji has created art for a virulently anti-Israel olive oil company that celebrates Palestinian violence, trades in antisemitic imagery, and sells expensive bottles that celebrate an OG Palestinian terrorist who shot down a British plane.
Duwaji, the wife of New York City’s Israel-bashing mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has been doing illustrations for the company since at least October 2025, when her husband was the frontrunner for the mayoralty, records show.
But surely Duwaji, an artist of international repute, is merely using her skills to further her bank account and talent without antisemitism? Yeah, not so much:
Duwaji, the wife of New York City’s Israel-bashing mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has been doing illustrations for the company since at least October 2025, when her husband was the frontrunner for the mayoralty, records show. [skip]
The highly active social media accounts for Olive Odyssey are almost cartoonishly anti-Israel, displaying a notorious antisemitic image of Israel as a skull with dead Palestinians in its teeth, deploying language about the olive trees watered with “martyrs’ blood,” and even accusing Israel of appropriating salad.
She was recently “artist-in-residence” at a luxury Islamic wellness retreat that praised terrorism.
The smugly smiling Zhoran Mamdani is an Islamist, an enemy of America, Israel, non-Muslims, and Western Civilization. We can only hope that our intelligence and police agencies have his equally Islamist wife and him wired from head to toe and stand ready to prosecute them for material support of terrorism.
Become a subscriber and get our weekly Friday newsletter with unique content from our editors. These essays alone are worth the cost of the subscription.
Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
Read more James Talarico, call home