{"id":3326,"date":"2025-11-03T23:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:38:16","slug":"just-in-scathing-eleventh-hour-report-exposes-zohran-mamdani-ahead-of-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=3326","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Scathing Eleventh-Hour Report Exposes Zohran Mamdani Ahead Of Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A last-minute bombshell report is shining a harsh spotlight on New York City socialist mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani and raising fresh alarm bells over his record on antisemitism just hours before voters hit the polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fox News Digital spoke with the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, which dropped the lengthy report late in the game. The group argues the far-left Queens assemblyman\u2019s ideology and ties deserve urgent scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is incumbent on voters to understand the ideological context that Zohran Mamdani comes from and espouses,\u201d Charles Asher Small, founding director of the Institute, told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 titled \u201cZohran Mamdani: From SJP to Gracie Mansion?\u201d \u2014 tracks the candidate\u2019s political rise, highlights controversial statements, and outlines the anti-Israel views of his father, a Columbia University professor. It also points to Mamdani\u2019s founding of a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Bowdoin College, his past rhetoric on Israel, and the anti-Israel figures lining up behind his campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe has repeatedly declined to condemn the slogan \u2018globalize the intifada,\u2019 ignoring the fact that the word \u2018intifada\u2019 is synonymous with terror attacks, suicide bombings, and incitement to kill Jews,\u201d the report reads. Mamdani has refused to explicitly condemn the phrase, instead simply saying he would \u201cdiscourage\u201d others from using it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The analysis says Mamdani \u201cdownplayed\u201d Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attacks while branding Israel\u2019s response as \u201cgenocide,\u201d and knocks him for pushing a bill to \u201cpunish New York charities that support Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mamdani also ignited outrage last month after smiling for a photo with Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj \u2014 a cleric who backed the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and defended convicted terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe normalization of antisemitism and anti-democratic rhetoric is now mainstream,\u201d Small told Fox News Digital. He warned that \u201cthe radical left, the extreme right and radical political Islam\u201d are undermining democratic norms \u2014 and using antisemitism as a political weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is essential to understand that words and ideas lead to action. The antisemitic discourse of Mamdani will inevitably lead to increased hate and violence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of rabbis publicly opposed Mamdani last month, saying Jewish Americans \u201ccannot remain silent\u201d and urging voters to reject him. Still, despite intense pushback and viral clips of his inflammatory comments on Israel, Mamdani enters Election Day with a strong polling edge and some Jewish backers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are significant levels of economic, social and political marginalization in New York and throughout the nation,\u201d Small said, noting Mamdani\u2019s appeal to disillusioned young voters. \u201cPeople are frustrated as their needs are not being met. In stressful times, populism and extremism become more appealing. Mamdani appears to be addressing the disenfranchised, especially the young. He gives fantastical policies that are appealing, yet will be impossible to deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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