> Libs: Do you still stand with Hamas now that they are shooting Iranian civilians with machine guns?

Try a little harder, and I bet you can work in Antifa and BLM.

Stay classy libs.

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‘We support Hamas’ chants put Mamdani’s Israel stance at center stage

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/0 … e-00720393

NEW YORK — Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside a Queens synagogue Thursday night and shouted the slogan: “Say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here.” The political condemnation was swift.

The governor, City Council speaker, borough president, congressional representative and local assemblymember all denounced the language in statements posted to social media. Mayor Zohran Mamdani took a different approach.

His press team and social media accounts had made no mention of the events by noon Friday as video of the chant captured millions of views on social media and was shared widely by elected officials from both parties.

“Still waiting on condemnation of support for Hamas at a protest in a Jewish neighborhood from @NYCMayor,” posted Assemblymember Sam Berger, who represents the Queens enclave of Kew Gardens Hills, where the protest took place.

Mamdani’s first public comment on the pro-Hamas demonstration did not come in a press release or social media post, but was offered in response to a question from POLITICO after a Brooklyn Congressional campaign stop for one of his allies. As he was leaving the event, Mamdani briefly addressed the protestors’ chants.

“That language is wrong,” Mamdani said Friday, while being escorted to his vehicle. “I think that language has no place in New York City.”

The protest chant — and the mayor’s response to it — offers a look into the first of many tests Mamdani stands to face around the highly disputed intersection between pro-Palestinian activism and anti-semitism in the city with the world’s largest Jewish population. The expectation for a response to allegations of antisemitism embedded in pro-Palestinian activism also comes as Mamdani’s political success has given way to a wave of Democratic primary challenges around the city and state energized by pro-Palestinian activism.

“Let’s be crystal clear: this is vile antisemitism,” said the city’s former comptroller, Brad Lander, who recently won Mamdani’s endorsement for a congressional primary bid. “This should not have to be said: you can oppose land sales in the West Bank, without supporting terrorism & the mass murder of Jews.”

The mayor’s clipped condemnation of the Thursday protest chants comes as local and national lawmakers supportive of Israel gave full-throated condemnations of protestors’ support for Hamas. The U.S.-designated terrorist group murdered more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in Israel on October 7, 2023. The group is also the political party that controlled Gaza before the attack.

Mamdani’s relative silence on the demonstration prompted pro-Israel activists to question why the mayor hadn’t publicly released a statement about the pro-Hamas rhetoric.

“This is New York City under Mamdani,” said Zach Sage Fox, a pro-Israel influencer and former campaign staffer for Mamdani’s rival, former governor and mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo. “He hasn’t said anything about it. Anything. Why? Because a year ago he would’ve been at that disgusting protest.”

Since the attack, Israel’s military campaign has killed over 70,000, according to the health ministry in Gaza, which operates under the umbrella of the Hamas-run government. U.N. agencies and independent experts consider the ministry’s casualty records as generally reliable.

Thursday’s pro-Palestinian organizers were gathered to protest an information session about opportunities to move to Israel, according to two people with direct knowledge of the event.

Advertisements for the protest included a graphic that called on organizers to “stop the sale of stolen Palestinian land.”

In one of his first acts as mayor, Mamdani rescinded a pair of executive orders from former Mayor Eric Adams that adopted a broad definition of antisemitism and prevented city employees from engaging in the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement against Israel.

As a state lawmaker, Mamdani supported the BDS movement against Israel — and indicated during the mayoral primary he would back it from City Hall if elected.

“I’ve long been a supporter of nonviolent movements that call for the adherence of international law, and I’ve supported BDS in the past,” Mamdani told POLITICO in April ahead of the June primary. “It is an extension of that same principle, that we have to use every tool that is at people’s disposal to ensure that equality is not simply a hope, but a reality.”

When asked if Mamdani intends to implement BDS as mayor, a spokesperson for the mayor referred POLITICO to a September TV interview in which Mamdani said he would oppose investment of the city pension funds in Israeli bonds, a policy that falls to the city’s independently elected comptroller.

“The most important thing is to figure out where we are directly implicated, and in the city pension fund, purchasing Israel bonds, that to me is something that is a clear indication of our values,” Mamdani told CBS’ Marcia Kramer. “We know that our values are actually with international law.”

In that interview, Mamdani avoided making a broad commitment to oppose city investments in companies that do business with Israel. He has previously supported Israel’s right to exist, but not as a Jewish state.

Some of Mamdani’s allies, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, condemned the support for Hamas expressed at Thursday’s protest, as did Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

“Let’s be clear: Hamas is a terrorist organization committed to the destruction of Jews while imposing its brutal rule on Palestinians,” Schumer said in a statement. “This hate must have no place in NYC, in the U.S. or around the world, and must be loudly condemned.”

“Hamas is a terrorist organization. We do not support terrorists. Period,” James said in an online statement.

The governor described the protestors’ rhetoric as “disgusting” Friday morning.

“Hamas is a terrorist organization that calls for the genocide of Jews,” she said in a statement. “No matter your political beliefs, this type of rhetoric is disgusting, it’s dangerous, and it has no place in New York.”

I stand with Hamas!
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I side with the weaker party in almost all conflicts.