The 111th Mayor of New York City

"A new poll shows that 74 percent of Democrats prefer Democratic socialism over capitalism."

"The poll shows that even 58 percent of Republicans agree that our economic system is 'rigged in favor of corporations and the wealthy'."

Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

 

"I had arrived in a society where privilege was a different color. Gone was the image of the white Christian male that I had grown accustomed to, and in its place was a darker, more familiar picture -- one that, for the first time, I fit: brown skin, black hair, and a Muslim name."

"After just a little while in Tahrir [Square, Egypt--Arab Spring] I understood the addiction of revolution, of protest."

"Those who traditionally had little say on society's direction were immediately granted the chance to speak, with the promise of an echo of thousands."
"Ideas of class and status were upturned, as men without means stood high on the shoulders of others, their voices loud. This new solidarity was founded in a widespread opposition to all that the government had grown to represent -- inefficiency, unjustness and sectarianism." 

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, speaks outside a Bronx Mosque and cultural center on October 24, 2025 in the Bronx borough of New York City (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

 

"He is the candidate for Pakistanis, Indians, and Bangladeshis alike, though they are not exactly one another's friends."

"And most of them are robust supporters of the market-driven New York economy and merit-based schools. How would they like living in Zohran's socialist paradise?"

"All the while he is also cultivating his base of disaffected -- mostly white and heavily female -- underemployed college graduates."

The Spectator

 

"What Western city or country has improved as the Muslim population has increased?"

"America's largest city was attacked by radical Islam 24 years ago, and now a similar form of that pernicious force is poised to capture city hall."

Charlie Kirk

 

New York City boasts the largest populations of both Jews and Muslims of any city in the Western Hemisphere. To the present an estimated 1.1 million Jews are New Yorkers, and roughly 750 Muslims now inhabit the city. It will not be the presence of Muslims in their voting strength that will elevate 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani to the mayoralty, but that of those Jews who feel he is the right person to administer the affairs of the most influential of American cities. Jews in Brooklyn who saw fit to honour the man when a group called Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, burst into applause when he spoke of the 'genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli military in Gaza'; a reported thousand in attendance. 

 

That declaration in its unadorned antisemitic slander elicited a response, however, from the political newsletter City & State: "Until recently, this kind of anti-Israel rhetoric would have been unthinkable in New York City politics". 

 

Mamdani, who only became a U.S. citizen in 2018, was born in Uganda, son of a 'progressive' filmmaker and a scholar of settler colonialism -- mother and father respectively; Shia Muslim and Hindu respectively. When Idi Amin, Uganda's dictator, expelled expatriate Indians who thrived there as business people and skilled entrepreneurs, academics and journalists among the Ugandan-Asian minorities, he enfeebled the Ugandan economy and robbed its culture. From the age of seven Zohran and his parents lived in Manhattan where Zohran was suckled on the socialist left. 

 

His campaign spiel of no-fare transit, inexpensive apartments, discount groceries and anti-Zionist bile has found wide favour among local voters, enough to catapult him as the leading contender for mayor when the vote takes place on November 4. A card-carrying Democratic Socialist to become the 111th mayor of Corporate Capitalist City. This young, bearded, confidence-smiling man won himself the June Democratic Party primary for mayor. His strident condemnation of "Israel's Genocide" won close to half of the Jewish primary vote.

 

Zohran Mamdani attends a campaign rally calling for the full enforcement of New York City's sanctuary city laws in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, New York, on 21 June 2025. Photograph: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images

 

His approval rate burped upward again when he committed to arresting both Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu should either dare to ever deplane in New York City. A New York Times/Siena College poll from early September saw 57 percent of the city's Democratic vote sympathizing with Palestinians in Gaza, a mere 18 percent with Israel. Assaults on Jews in New York city have been documented by the New York Police Department at an all time high, an increase of 583 percent since 2020; over 1,400 antisemitic incidents in 2024.

 

His opponents, down to the wire, are Curtis Sliwa, Republican known 40 years ago as a subway vigilante, fighting street crime, and Andrew Cuomo, former governor of New York State. The one-and-only (thank the heavenly stars) Senator Bernie Sanders of Brooklyn, all 84 years-old of him, campaigned with Mamdani, as did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the Bronx and Queens, at packed halls to wild applause. "Sanders said the United States should not be sending aid to 'the government of Israel that is currently starving children to death'", reported NY Jewish Week, of his statement that garnered a standing ovation.

 

Mamdani has promised "affordability", vowing to freeze rents on a million municipal-operated apartments. His own residence is a one-bedroom, rent-stabilized flat in a century-old building in the Borough of Queens for which he pays $2,300 monthly, where he moved in 2018. Interesting choice for a scion of wealth and privilege. This is a man with no work experience, never having earned a real paycheque. A former rapper, and  few months served as a community organizer in Seattle and Texas.

 

Former three-term mayor Michael Bloomberg has distinguished himself by generously handing six million to Cuomo's race as an 'independent'. Prominent Jewish real estate developers financially supported opposition to Mamdani's campaign, warning "There is no more time for delay, discussion, or dithering -- we must act decisively to ensure that the next mayor of New York is Andrew Cuomo."  

"We hold a common belief in the shared dignity of every person on this planet, and the refusal to draw a line in the sand when it comes to Palestinian lives."

"Our victory in June was evidence of many things, but truly, among them, it was a lesson that so many in this city are horrified by the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli military in Gaza."

Zohran Mamdani 

House Republicans are hammering Mamdani over his path to citizenship. Andy Ogles/ X