Zohran Mamdani
The lawmakers also said that the frontrunner to be New York City mayor is wrong to support boycotting Israel.
The New York Republican said her bill would “prohibit radicals like Mamdani from illegally arresting the leader of our democratic ally Israel.”
The candidate will “approach antisemitism in line with the Biden administration’s National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism,” said a spokesperson for his campaign.
“Washington will be watching this situation very closely,” the U.S. president wrote. “No reason to be sending good money after bad.”
After discussing Jew-hatred with Mamdani, the New York governor said she has “been glad to see him meet with Jewish leaders across the city, listening and addressing their concerns directly.”
Cuomo has a “more than 50 percent chance” of winning the city’s November mayoral race in a head–to-head race with front-runner Zohran Mamdani, said the U.S. hedge-fund billionaire.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams led among Jewish voters, with twice Mamdani’s favorability rating.
The philanthropist Elizabeth Simons reportedly made the largest contribution to the group to date.
In an interview, she was asked if that was a possibility.
The mayoral candidate and former president reportedly “discussed the importance of giving people hope in a dark time.”
“We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer and a major threat to public safety,” the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City wrote in June 2020.
The Democratic candidate’s N.Y. mayoral campaign is a case study in political warfare, drawing lessons from Hamas’s 2006 electoral strategy.
