Mamdanis bigoted Oct. 7 post is rooted in antisemitism and hatred its time to stand up against his lies

If you only read the first 49 words of Mayor Mamdani’s statement marking the three-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct.7 attacks, you might’ve thought you were witnessing another New York miracle — like the Knicks winning it all after 53 years without a title, or Captain Sully landing that plane on the Hudson.Here, after all, was the mayor, plainly stating the facts: 1,100 Israelis killed and 251 abducted in an attack that can only be called a horrific war crime.But the artist formerly known as Mr.

Cardamom, it soon turned out, hasn’t really changed his tune since he rapped lovingly about the Holy Land Five, Muslim community leaders indicted for funneling millions to Hamas.The bit about dead Israelis, it turned out, was only throat-clearing.The main act was precisely what you’d expect from Mamdani: bluster and bigotry, a perfect crescendo of performative Third Worldism.Genocide! Apartheid! Starvation! Journalists targeted for telling the truth!The mayor’s statement reads like a greatest-hits compilation of all the depraved lies we’ve been hearing for the past three years from those whose main passion is cheering for Jew killers.How to respond to such an intellectually feeble, morally repugnant and utterly pernicious statement?A normal person’s first instinct is to counter Mamdani’s fabrications with facts — reminding him, say, that an overwhelming majority of so-called journalists killed by the Israel Defense Forces turned out to be terror operatives.Or explaining, yet again, that “genocide” is a preposterous term to use considering that Gaza’s population grew by 2% in 2024 alone, and that its elected leaders could’ve ended the war at any time simply by returning the hostages they brutally kidnapped from their homes.But Mamdani doesn’t care about the facts.His statement wasn’t an ill-conceived blunder: It was a deliberate fist bump to his base, reassuring the terror aficionados marching up and down our streets and waving Hamas and Hezbo...