More radical than radical left: Inside the anti-Israeli world of mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is “more radical than the radical left,” according to one veteran of local and national political campaigns.“He is in a category all by himself,” the campaigner, who asked to withhold his name, told The Post.“I’ve never seen someone so far to the left.
He’s anti Israel, he’s all up in the protests and violence.This is not how a mayoral candidate behaves.”He may be a dyed-in-the-wool member of the hard-left Democratic Socialists of America — but Zohran Mamdani, the Muslim son of filmmaker Mira Nair, knows how to raise money.Despite being a virtual unknown until recently, Mamdani, 33, a Democratic Assembly member and New York City mayoral candidate, is second only to the disgraced but still powerful ex-governor Andrew Cuomo in raising campaign contributions for the race.
Mamdani — who was raised in New York and believes in free buses, free childcare, a rent freeze and city-run grocery stores —- raised almost a million dollars over the last two months and has more than 16,000 donors.More than $500,000 of his cash raised since January is eligible for the city’s eight-to-one matching funds program, the campaign said — meaning Mamdani is set to get $4 million in taxpayer cash next month.Mamdani’s also eager to make a scene, as he demonstrated last week when he was caught on video trying to get past New York State police troopers while shouting at border czar Tom Homan.Mamdani yelled at the acting ICE director over Trump’s immigration policies and the recent detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student and anti-Israel activist.“How many more New Yorkers will you detain? How many more New Yorkers without charge?” he shouted before being removed by police at the State Capitol.
“Do you believe in the First Amendment, Tom Homan?” The mayoral candidate was arrested at a pro-Palestinian rally outside Sen.Chuck Schumer’s house on Brooklyn’s Prospect Park West in Octob...