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Democratic Party New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani sparked a wave of anger on Tuesday with his statement marking the October 7th attack on southern Israel, in which Palestinian militants killed over 1,200 people and took some 250 hostages.
“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities,” began Mamdani’s statement, adding:
In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.
This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.
These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.
The Atlantic’s David Frum shared the statement and added, “This is a genuinely useful statement. The chilly formulaic language about the 10/7 atrocity … the intense angry passion of the denunciation of Israel’s self-defense … together they arrestingly reveal what the author cares about and what/who he does not care about.”
MSNBC columnist and pundit, Michael Cohen, added, “On the second anniversary of October 7, one anodyne sentence on how murdering Jews is bad. And the rest is yet another seedy, pejorative attack on Israel.”
Fabien Levy, New York City’s deputy mayor for communications, commented, “Just to be clear, this is not a statement about October 7. This is a statement about how much Zohran doesn’t believe in Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and one that criticizes our own government far more than a designated terrorist organization.”
Below are some additional reactions:
Disgraceful https://t.co/OMeJXypO0v
— Marc Thiessen
(@marcthiessen) October 7, 2025
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