New York City’s Islamunist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is facing heated backlash over his brazen dinner with Hamas supporter, Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia anti-Israel activist who has previously been marked for deportation. Leftist judges saved the pro-Palestinian from getting the boot, and now the Muslim mayor of the Big Apple has broken bread with him over Ramadan at Gracie Mansion in an outright affront to Jews. Mamdani says he was “honored” to have dinner with Khalil.
Proud to host Khalil
The Democratic Socialist was quick to post a picture Monday night on social media showing him hosting Khalil, his wife Noor Abdalla, and their son at dinner just one day after two jihadists representing ISIS threw “Mother of Satan” IEDs outside Gracie Mansion, hoping for a slaughter bigger than the Boston Marathon:
For Mahmoud Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship—and by profound courage.
A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child.
Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together.
Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.
Mamdani’s support sets social media on fire
Conservatives rightfully hammered the post praising the antisemite.
“Posting a celebratory photo of an anti-Israel college protester who should be deported next to your ‘non public figure’ wife, who cheered the rape and murder of Jews on 10/7, the day after two radical Muslims threw pipe bombs on your sidewalk is a hell of a choice, Mamdani,” Outkick founder Clay Travis pointed out on X.
That comment was in reference to Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, who reportedly “liked” a variety of social media posts celebrating the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in Israel, according to Fox News. The Islamist mayor excused her horrific actions by claiming she is not a “public figure” and expressing his undying love for her, “My wife is the love of my life, and she’s also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my city hall.”
Users on X blasted Mamdani all over the place for hosting the terrorist supporter.
“Nothing says that the NY City Mayor condemns Islamic terrorism quite like having dinner in Gracie Mansion with those who actively promote it,” Superintendent of the Kiryas Joel School District Joel M. Petlin wrote on X.
“Just a casual dinner at Gracie with the lovely, private citizen, shy wifey whose fingers could not keep up with liking posts about the MASSACRE of Jews, and the RING LEADER & CHIEF ‘NEGOTIATOR’ of Columbia’s antisemitic encampments where Jewish students were harassed and intimidated, and where they literally glorified convicted terrorists,” New York City Republican Councilwoman Inna Vernikov stated on X.
“This is what Zohran Mamdani stands for,” journalist Neria Kraus charged on X. “Mahmoud Khalil justified October 7th. ‘We couldn’t avoid such a moment,’ he viciously explained in an interview. Well, he was invited to the people’s house of NYC, Gracie Mansion, to a celebratory dinner. This is everything you need to know.”
“Syrian national Mahmoud Khalil, refers to Hamas as ‘we’. Tonight, he dined with Zohran Mamdani in the mayor’s mansion,” UPenn student Eyal Yakoby posted on X. “It shouldn’t be a surprise that Islamists launched an IED at New Yorkers over the weekend—they feel empowered.”
“After getting exposed for liking posts about Oct. 7, why waste any time before hosting a man who justifies terrorism too?” Leo Terrell, civil rights attorney and chair of the Department of Justice Taskforce on Antisemitism and senior counsel at the Justice Department, noted on X. “These people are proud!”
“In NYC, terrorist sympathizers have a seat at Zohran Mamdani’s table,” The Republican Jewish Coalition posted on X. “Mahmoud Khalil should be deported, not fluffed by the Mayor of the City of New York. Disgraceful.”
Watchdog group StopAntisemitism posted on X: “NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani breaking bread with one of the city’s most vile antisemites, Mahmoud Khalil. By the way, he should already have been deported back to Syria. What is he still doing here, dining lavishly at Gracie Mansion at taxpayers’ expense?”
And there were many more who pointed out the outrageousness of Mamdani’s move:
Khalil is a national security threat
Khalil is an Algerian citizen who was born in Syria. He was living here as a graduate student on a non-immigrant student visa while attending Columbia University following the slaughter of Jews on Oct. 7, 2023, in Israel. He organized and led protests against Israel, accusing them of genocide and war crimes, while inciting hatred and violence against Jews.
The Trump administration and the federal government justified Khalil’s arrest and being held for deportation because he was a noncitizen who was spouting terroristic threats.
Khalil spent 104 days in detention at a Louisiana facility while leftist attorneys challenged the legality of his arrest. When he was released, Khalil appeared before supporters wearing a shirt that read “Lift the siege on Gaza.” Then he accused the US of funding genocide.
Mamdani has been one of Khalil’s most ardent defenders, stating in January, “I see this attack on him as part of a larger attack on the freedom of speech that is especially pronounced when it comes to the use of that speech to stand up for policy to human rights.”
