Shocking Ideology Exposed: NYC Mayor’s Dangerous Ties Revealed as Violence Erupts

Liberty Check

• NYC mayor with radical Muslim Brotherhood ties releases inflammatory anti-Israel video one day before violent antisemitic stabbing attack
• Explosive new report traces mayor’s worldview to extremist student activism and connections to terrorism-linked organizations
• Police warn mayor’s activist rhetoric and call for massive protests puts officers and citizens at grave risk

On Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar marking the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, an assailant armed with a knife attacked two men on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. One victim wore a yarmulke.

Witnesses said the assailant shouted, “Allahu Akbar.” The victims, ages 50 and 57, survived, and a suspect is in custody.

Only a day earlier, Zohran Mamdani, mayor of the city with the largest Jewish community outside Israel, released a video accusing Israel of war crimes and genocide — and declared that Benjamin Netanyahu, the elected leader of the Middle East’s only democracy, should be arrested. The mayor of an American city has no such power.

Municipal leaders are forbidden by law from carrying out their own foreign policy. Nevertheless, Mamdani’s public relations stunt used inflammatory language decrying the Jewish state as a criminal enterprise, setting a dangerous stage for bloodshed.

Jewish organizations had warned that the climate in the city was becoming dangerous. Their warnings became prophetic as police officers cleaned up the crime scene.

Words and ideas lead to actions, and a public culture that brands the Jewish state as genocidal or apartheid normalizes a permission structure in which such violence becomes thinkable. This is the argument of a bombshell report that the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy (ISGAP) published on Mamdani in 2025.

The report traces the origins of Mamdani’s worldview. As a student at Bowdoin College, Mamdani co-founded a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.

In the aftermath of Oct. 7 — the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — he downplayed the atrocity while characterizing Israel’s legally justified defensive response as genocide.

He repeatedly declined to condemn the slogan “globalize the intifada,” offering only that he would “discourage” its use, as though a call to export anti-Jewish violence to American streets were merely a matter of etiquette. He introduced legislation to punish New York charitable institutions that support Israel.

His first act as mayor, before addressing police unions and garbage collection, was to remove the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism from the city’s lexicon.

He accepted a massive donation from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization identified by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism-financing case. He has associated with figures such as Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who served as a character witness for the man convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

These are not stray data points. His close friend, far-left influencer Hasan Piker, and political candidates Mamdani has openly endorsed assert that the United States deserved what it got on Sept. 11, 2001.

Mamdani’s words and actions form a dangerous pattern, and that pattern has a name: the Muslim Brotherhood.

ISGAP research on the Brotherhood’s strategic entryism into North America describes a century-long campaign that its own internal documents lay out plainly. “The Project” of 1982 and the “Explanatory Memorandum” of 1991 — evidence entered in federal court — describe a strategy the authors call “civilization jihad”: to exploit the freedoms of Western democracies to hollow them out from within, patiently, over generations, until the host society no longer recognizes what has been done to it.

Front organizations advise governments, shape civil-rights policy, embed themselves in universities and cultivate media, all while presenting a moderate face. Qatar underwrites much of it.

Students for Justice in Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine sit within this ecosystem, and Hamas, which calls itself the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and which the U.S. has designated a foreign terrorist organization, is what the ideology produces.

The Brotherhood is Sunni; the revolutionary regime in Tehran is Shia. On almost everything else, they are rivals, yet they converge on one project: the destruction of Israel and the humiliation of the West.

When an American mayoral candidate adopts the same moral and political map, in which Israel is the aggressor and its enemies are the aggrieved, he is not dissenting bravely from consensus. He is translating a dangerous ideology into the fluent, sympathetic idiom of Western progressivism, where it does its most effective work precisely because it no longer seems foreign.

This is why the antisemitism at the center of Mamdani’s politics cannot be waved away as mere progressive ideology. Antisemitism is the oldest early-warning system a society has.

It begins with Jews, and it never ends there. The same worldview that marks Jews as obstacles also marks pluralism, free exchange and the liberal democratic order itself as enemies.

An assault on the Jews of New York is an assault on the idea of New York, on the essence of the American democratic experiment.

Listen closely to how Mamdani talks about his own city. The wealthy, landlords and the “billionaire class,” in his telling, are a shadowy few who hoard the city and lock everyone else out.

The language is reminiscent of Nazi propaganda. Presented as economic justice, this is familiar and dangerous rhetoric.

The oldest antisemitic libels have always relied on the image of a rich, rootless minority pulling the strings while ordinary people suffer. When a politician’s economic populism runs on the same rails as his hostility toward the Jewish state, the two are not unrelated.

They draw from the same well. This is why the assault is not merely on Jews or Israel.

It is on the very fabric of the United States — on the idea that a free society is built through commerce, contract, and pluralism rather than resentment, expropriation and the search for an enemy within.

A man was knifed outside a synagogue on the saddest day of the Jewish year in a city whose mayor spends his energy accusing the Jewish state of genocide. We must say clearly what connects the rhetoric to the risk, refuse the normalization of hatred dressed up as social justice, and insist that words that prepare the ground for violence be named for what they are before the next knife is drawn.

Unrestrained by his theatrical call for Netanyahu’s arrest, Mamdani now calls for massive demonstrations when the Israeli leader visits the city for the U.N. General Assembly in September.

“The mayor’s activist posturing puts police officers on the street in a terrible position,” New York City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said.

“Protests during the U.N. General Assembly are nothing new, but when the mayor of the city is actively calling for demonstrations, violent agitators will assume they have permission to cause as much havoc as possible.”

The Manhattan stabbings are just the beginning of something far more dangerous. Mamdani, it appears, has sounded the call, content that the globalization of violence will erupt on the streets of the city he is sworn to serve.

The Constitution must be defended.