After the ADL announced its scrutiny of Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect told reporters, "I take the issue of antisemitism incredibly seriously."

The Pennsylvania governor, who is Jewish, previously criticized the New York mayor-elect for not condemning “blatantly antisemitic” rhetoric.

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A showdown is brewing between progressive Zohran Mamdani ally Crystal Hudson and pro-Israel pol Julie Menin over who will be the next City Council speaker.

Zohran Mamdani, a vocal pro-Palestinian advocate, has been a critic of Israel’s war in Gaza. He described Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack as a “war crime” but asserted that the U.S. government is complicit in what he terms Israel’s “genocidal war” on Gaza.

“L et’s not talk about the mayor thing.” Thus Mahmood Mamdani made clear that he did not want to discuss his son, Zohran, who 48 hours earlier had been elected the next mayor of New York City. If the father was feeling anything other than exhaustion — and he did look very tired — he wasn’t saying.

Mamdani was joined in the protest by other radicals, including Siraj Wahhaj, a Brooklyn imam who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and once acted as a character witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the terrorist who organized it. Mamdani recently came under fire for campaigning with Wahhaj.

The Big Apple has fallen,” a right-wing lawmaker said, reflecting broader worries in the Mideast country. Palestinians hailed the election as a sea change in the United States.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has an International Criminal Court warrant out for his arrest on charges of war crimes in Gaza.