“He’s tried to find that middle ground, where he can give a wink and a nod to those kinds of very violent extremist rhetoric, but without being forced to condemn it,” David May, of FDD, told JNS.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani appears live on WNYC’s “Mamdani’s First 100 Days: Lessons from La Guardia” in Manhattan, April 20, 2026. Credit: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office.
(June 30, 2026 / JNS) On Sunday, Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, told Jonathan Karl of ABC that he supports Israel as a “state with equal rights,” but “any state that privileges one religion over the other is one that I can’t tell you I support.”
“Whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else,” added the mayor, who has said that he would have the Israeli prime minister arrested in New York City and whose spokeswoman said that synagogues violate international law when they



















