New York City stands at a pivotal moment as Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, BDS activist, and State Assemblyman representing District 36, campaigns to become the city’s first Muslim mayor, epitomizing the Red/Green Alliance. Born in Kampala, Uganda, and raised in the United States from the age of seven, Mamdani has constructed a political identity rooted in grievance politics, Islamic organizing, open borders, and far-left activism. His run is not about improving governance; it’s a coordinated effort to reshape New York’s political, cultural, and ideological future.
Political Background and Ideological Foundations
Mamdani was born to Mahmood Mamdani, a radical anti-colonialist academic, and Mira Nair, a leftist filmmaker known for advancing identity-driven narratives. His political ideology is shaped not by American values but by a post-colonial grievance framework that views the West, particularly the United States, as a force to be dismantled, rather than defended. His grandfather, once a respected community leader in Uganda, never recovered after being expelled by the then-President of Uganda, Idi Amin. Mamdani has publicly reflected on this legacy of dispossession, framing his politics around concepts of statelessness and systemic injustice.
At Bowdoin College, Mamdani co-founded the school’s first chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), an organization known for its radical anti-Israel activism and ties to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). The SJP was founded by the dangerous antisemite Hatem Bazian, who called for “intifada” – or a violent uprising – in America. He later worked across the country with various progressive groups to organize electoral campaigns and push socialist policies, particularly in healthcare.
DSA Ties and Socialist Coalition Building
Since entering politics, Mamdani has emerged as a key figure in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) movement in New York. The DSA, the most prominent Marxist organization in the United States, has spent decades infiltrating and influencing federal, state, and local governments. In 2020, Mamdani was one of five DSA-endorsed candidates elected to the State Assembly, forming the radical “DSA for the Many” slate.
This coalition has relentlessly pushed for policies like abolishing cash bail, defunding the police, dismantling private housing markets, and expanding government control over everything from utilities to real estate.
Mamdani’s campaign was aggressively backed by ActBlue and DSA as part of a broader effort to flood Albany with far-left ideologues. His close political allies include:
- Julia Salazar – A State Senator and outspoken supporter of BDS with a long record of anti-Israel positions. She frequently frames America as a colonial oppressor and has advocated for cutting police funding.
- Jabari Brisport – A self-declared Marxist and public school teacher turned senator, Brisport has championed dismantling standardized testing and pushing “racial justice” curricula across New York schools.
- Marcela Mitaynes – An Assemblywoman who calls for abolishing rent, eliminating landlords, and transforming New York’s housing system into a socialist-style government-run apparatus.
- Phara Souffrant Forrest – A nurse-turned-legislator who supports defunding the police, dismantling capitalism, and has marched alongside anti-Israel protestors.
- Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) – Radical Islamic Congresswoman, notorious for her anti-Israel tirades and open hostility toward U.S. allies, has thrown her weight behind Mamdani’s mayoral bid. In a virtual organizing call, Tlaib urged her “comrades” to rally behind Mamdani, portraying his candidacy as part of the broader socialist fight against what she called the “fascist regime” of Donald Trump.
Mamdani also worked closely with Tiffany Cabán, a radical activist who ran for Queens District Attorney on a platform of decriminalizing sex work, eliminating bail, and refusing to prosecute most non-violent crimes. Though she narrowly lost in 2019, Cabán has remained an influential DSA figure and now sits on the New York City Council.
He maintains active ties to the South Brooklyn DSA, one of the most militant arms of the organization, known for its anti-Israel activism, support for BDS, calls to abolish ICE, and open hostility toward law enforcement and U.S. national sovereignty.
In a 2019 Facebook post, DSA comrade Eric Thor praised Mamdani as “an absolute force” for socialism, noting his experience as a housing counselor fighting evictions in Queens. His campaign messaging centers on making housing a guaranteed right, removing tax incentives for real estate development, and placing housing under community ownership.
Anti-Israel Activism and Refusal to Recognize Jewish Statehood
Mamdani is the embodiment of a dangerous merger: militant Islam weaponized through socialist infrastructure. He is not running to serve New York—he is running to subvert it from within.
Mamdani has come under fire for his extreme anti-Israel positions. In May 2021, he was filmed leading BDS chants at a New York rally and has publicly condemned U.S. officials for visiting Israel. He calls BDS a “legitimate” and “non-violent” movement, despite its explicit goal of economically dismantling the Jewish state. In reality, BDS has fueled a surge of antisemitic harassment and violence in New York and nationwide. Mamdani’s support is not mere politics—it is a declaration of hostility toward the Jewish community.
At a Democratic mayoral candidate forum hosted by the UJA-Federation of New York, Mamdani doubled down on his BDS stance. He was asked by Jewish Insider’s Josh Kraushaar whether he supported Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. Mamdani stated, “I believe Israel has a right to exist, and it has a right to exist also with equal rights for all,” deliberately sidestepping the Jewish identity of the state. This evasiveness is consistent with BDS-aligned rhetoric aimed at erasing Israel’s Jewish character.
Mamdani claims his support for BDS reflects a “non-violent” political framework and a desire to enforce international law, rhetoric routinely used by anti-Israel activists to disguise economic warfare as humanitarian resistance. He has faced repeated criticism, including for leading a “BDS” chant at an anti-Israel protest just days before the forum. Nevertheless, he reportedly received a warm reception at the closed-door event, which barred press access.
Call to Arrest Israeli Prime Minister
Perhaps most troubling was Mamdani’s declaration that, if elected mayor, he would instruct the NYPD to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited New York. He cited a politicized International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant. However, neither the United States nor Israel is a member of the ICC, and New York City has no jurisdiction to enforce such actions. Mamdani compared Netanyahu to Vladimir Putin—not as a legal argument, but as an expression of his deep-seated Jew-hatred and radical anti-Israel ideology.
He also claimed, without evidence, that Netanyahu had issued Israeli military orders while physically present in New York, an inflammatory charge clearly designed to portray the city as a satellite of so-called ‘Zionist war-making.’ This inflammatory accusation was made just 24 hours after a pro-Palestinian terrorist gunned down two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C, a chilling reminder of how such rhetoric can embolden violence and reinforce dangerous conspiracy theories about Jewish and Israeli control over American institutions.
Legislative Patterns: Refusing to Acknowledge the Holocaust and Israel
Mamdani has refused to co-sponsor two State Assembly resolutions: one recognizing Israel’s right to exist and another commemorating Holocaust victims. Though his campaign cited “procedural error,” the omissions are consistent with a broader pattern of rejecting Jewish political identity and minimizing Jewish historical suffering.
He also introduced and backed the “Not On Our Dime Act,” a bill that would bar New York nonprofits from supporting Israeli groups with ties to West Bank settlements. This effort further exemplifies his intent to politicize and penalize American Jewish institutions that support Israel.
CAIR and Islamic Political Alignment
Zohran Mamdani is endorsed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal Holy Land Foundation case, which uncovered a vast network funding Hamas. CAIR was also designated a terrorist organization by the UAE in 2014 and has a long record of defending extremists and promoting Sharia-based ideology in American political spaces.
CAIR’s support for Mamdani is more than symbolic—it signals alignment with a political agenda that combines Islamic goals with far-left revolutionary tactics.
Mamdani’s name also appears as a 2018 board member of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York (MDCNY), the first citywide Muslim-American Democratic club in the U.S., which aims to consolidate Muslim political power through Democratic Party infrastructure. Other members include known activists with deep ties to Linda Sarsour and other Islamic organizers.
Islamization Through Public Policy: Halal Food in Schools
Mamdani’s agenda to reshape New York is not limited to foreign policy stances or street protests; it extends deep into the daily lives of American families. One of his legislative priorities has been pushing for mandatory halal food options in all New York State public schools.
While framed as a diversity initiative, this policy is part of a calculated effort to normalize Islamic religious practices in taxpayer-funded institutions. Halal meat is not just a dietary choice, it is a religiously mandated slaughter method governed by Sharia, often certified by organizations with foreign ideological ties and financial links to terror-affiliated entities.
Mandating halal in public schools under the banner of “inclusion” sets a dangerous precedent: one where religious accommodations for Islam are institutionalized and publicly funded, while Christian, Jewish, and secular values are sidelined. This is not about dietary freedom; it’s about Islamizing public infrastructure, one cafeteria at a time, while funneling money to extremist-aligned certification bodies under the protection of religious liberty.
Hindu Hatred and Transnational Islamic Alliances
Mamdani’s hostility isn’t limited to Jews or Americans. A resurfaced video from 2020 exposes another layer of his radicalism: deep-seated hatred toward Hindus and overt alignment with Islamic agitation against India. Then a candidate for the New York State Assembly, Mamdani led a mob of protesters in Times Square to denounce the Indian government over the reconstruction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
In the footage that was widely circulated on social media, Mamdani is seen wearing his COVID face covering, standing before a crowd chanting anti-Hindu slurs, with protestors calling Hindus “bastards” and hurling abuse at Lord Rama, a deity worshipped by over a billion Hindus worldwide. Mamdani spoke in both English and Hindi, beginning with the phrase “Sat Shri Akal Ji,” a religious greeting in Sikhism, while presiding over the rally’s escalating anti-Hindu venom.
Though Mamdani claimed he was targeting the Indian government, his own social media posts accused “Hindu nationalists” of celebrating a “right-wing atrocity.” He described the rebuilding of the Ram Temple, a revered site for Hindus, as a fascist victory, and declared, “As an Indian Muslim whose family is witnessing the rising tide of fascism in India, I won’t be silent.”
These statements reveal Mamdani’s dangerous willingness to import sectarian conflict from South Asia into American political discourse. Just as he weaponizes antisemitism through BDS and attacks on Israel, Mamdani is cultivating anti-Hindu sentiment in the United States, further aligning himself with global Islamic movements that target both Jews and Hindus as ideological enemies.
This is not diplomacy. It is sectarian agitation, driven by the same grievance-based, anti-Western ideology that fuels Mamdani’s entire campaign. This worldview blames the West, Israel, and Hindu-majority India for the world’s problems.
Meet Rama Duwaji: The Radical Syrian Artist Married to Zohran Mamdani
While Zohran Mamdani campaigns to become New York City’s first Muslim mayor, he has kept quiet about his personal life until now. Under pressure from public scrutiny, Mamdani “hard-launched” his wife, Rama Duwaji, a Syrian-born illustrator and outspoken pro-Palestinian activist, on Instagram after reports revealed she had been kept largely out of public view during the early campaign.
Duwaji, whose artwork openly supports the Palestinian/Hamas cause, including anti-Israel propaganda, has drawn sharp criticism for helping amplify Mamdani’s broader ideological campaign. Their marriage isn’t just personal—it represents a shared ideological alignment rooted in grievance politics, radical leftism, and anti-Western agitation.
The couple hosted a wedding ceremony in Dubai, where Duwaji’s family resides, despite Mamdani’s platform focused on “equity” and class warfare. Reports revealed that weddings at the luxury venue used by the couple can run thousands of dollars, exposing a striking contradiction between Mamdani’s socialist rhetoric and personal choices.
Duwaji has become a symbolic extension of Mamdani’s political agenda, blending Islamic identity politics, anti-capitalist rhetoric, and open hostility to Israel into their public personas. Her artistic platform amplifies the very movements, BDS, anti-Jewish, and pro-Palestinian militancy, that Mamdani is trying to embed into New York’s political fabric.
Open Borders Agenda and Anti-American Coalitions
Mamdani’s radicalism also extends to immigration. He has consistently promoted open borders policies and opposed U.S. immigration enforcement. His extremism was on full display on May 12, 2015, when he launched into a yelling tirade against former ICE Director Tom Homan during a public event in Albany, New York. The incident, an aggressive, hostile outburst, highlighted Mamdani’s rejection of national sovereignty and law enforcement in favor of mass illegal migration without restriction.
Global and Anti-American Coalitions
Mamdani’s activism is not confined to local issues. In 2022, he signed a letter opposing the construction of a U.S. military base in Okinawa, joining organizations such as CODEPINK, World BEYOND War, The Red Nation, the Worker Communist Party of Iraq, and others. These groups oppose U.S. global influence, reject American military power, and frequently align with adversaries like Iran and North Korea.
He has also been publicly supported by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a former French presidential candidate and leader of the radical La France Insoumise movement, who endorsed Mamdani at a DSA event in April 2025. Mélenchon is notorious for his support of Hezbollah and anti-Israel conspiracy theories.
Broader Strategy of Subversion
Mamdani’s rise is not homegrown. It is the product of foreign ideological seeding, funneled through CAIR, backed by international radicals, and embraced by domestic movements that despise America’s founding principles.
Mamdani is not just one candidate. He represents a broader international strategy of ideological infiltration, using the structures of democracy to install anti-democratic movements. He draws power from three overlapping networks: international socialism, Islamist activism, and post-colonial grievance politics. His campaign relies on identity-based bloc voting, ideological radicalism, and soft alliances with anti-Western global actors.
This is not representation – it is replacement. The goal is to embed anti-American, anti-Israel, and anti-capitalist policies in the governance of the most influential city in the United States. Mamdani’s rise is a textbook case of political hijrah: the strategic migration and consolidation of power by Islam-aligned movements operating under the cover of civil rights and diversity.
Anti-Western Radicalism
The facts are clear. Zohran Mamdani:
- Co-founded a radical anti-Israel group on campus (SJP)
- Has deep connections to far-left activists and organizations
- Refused to affirm Israel’s identity as a Jewish state
- Pledged to arrest a democratically elected foreign leader in violation of U.S. law
- Declined to support Holocaust memorial and Israeli recognition legislation
- Is endorsed by CAIR and part of Muslim political bloc-building efforts
- Has worked alongside international anti-American actors and movements
New Yorkers and Americans must recognize the stakes. This mayoral race is not about routine policy debates. It is a direct confrontation between constitutional American values and a growing ideological movement that seeks to replace them. Electing Mamdani would be a catastrophic validation of anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-infidel extremism, cloaked in the language of social justice.
If Mamdani succeeds, it will not end with New York. It will signal that America’s largest city, the global symbol of freedom, can be politically captured by an ideology that openly supports America’s enemies, undermines Jewish self-determination, and seeks to replace constitutional governance with religious and socialist dogma.
The rise of Zohran Mamdani is not just a local threat, it is part of a coordinated ideological insurgency. His campaign represents the normalization of anti-Western radicalism within American institutions and a direct challenge to the principles that have defined and protected this nation for centuries.
