New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubled down on his October 7 statement accusing Israel of carrying out a "genocide" in Gaza on Thursday.Mamdani made the statement while speaking to the press at an unrelated event on Thursday.Reporters asked him about anger in the Jewish community over his statement on the third anniversary of the Oct.
7 terrorist attacks that briefly recognized that day's atrocities before accusing Israel of carrying out genocide against Palestinians."Do you believe you made any missteps that enflamed tensions in this very difficult moment for a lot of New Yorkers?" a reporter asked.ISRAEL AMB TORCHES MAMDANI OCT 7 POST: 'LIKE TURNING SEPTEMBER 11 INTO A DAY OF MOURNING FOR AL-QAEDA'New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a Wednesday interview on Fox News’ The Story with Martha MacCallum, where he discussed the Gaza ceasefire and said he would uphold an International Criminal Court warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.(Fox News)"I believe that there must be room to mourn every single life," Mamdani responded.
"There must be room to mourn the lives of the more than 1,100 that Hamas killed three years ago; there must be room to mourn the 74,000 Palestinians that the Israeli government has killed since.""There must be room to reckon with the ways in which so many New Yorkers' lives have been shattered," he continued, noting that the vigil he attended highlighted testimonies from those killed "either on the day or the genocide since."WEAPONIZING THE CHARGE OF GENOCIDE FUELS AN INCREASINGLY DANGEROUS ANTISEMITISMDemocratic New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is once again raising eyebrows, this time over a resurfaced clip in which he says, "Israel is not a place, it is not a country." (REUTERS/Jeenah Moon and iStock)Mamdani went on to accuse the Israeli government of using the October 7 massacre as "a justification for a genocide."The mayor also repeatedly declined to say that he would change anything about the sta...