THE CURRENT Issue 1066 · June 18, 2025

The Specter of a Mamdani Mayoralty  

Why would anyone besides an anti-Semite not be done with Mamdani?

The Specter of a Mamdani Mayoralty  

This week’s Public Policy Polling survey of 573 likely voters even shows Mamdani taking a slim lead of 35% to Cuomo’s 31%. It’s a safe bet that none of Mamdani’s growing support is coming from the Orthodox Jewish community.

“Zohran Mamdani is running the most deceptive, divisive, and anti-Semitic campaign in the history of New York City,” says Queens state assemblyman Sam Berger.

Born and raised as a Muslim in Kampala, Uganda, Zohran Kwame Mamdani moved to New York at age seven with his parents, extremist Columbia professor Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair. They were expelled from Uganda by dictator Idi Amin over their Indian heritage.

Mahmood now indoctrinates Columbia students with his Marxist take on colonialism, openly teaching about “the necessity of violence in anticolonial struggle,” pushing for the “dismantlement” of Israel and comparing it to Nazism, apartheid, and Jim Crow. Nair echoes the rhetoric.

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