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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has a history of praising Hamas

On January 1, 2021, Zohran Mamdani, who emerged as a standout among NYC progressives, became a New York State Assemblyman representing the 36th District in Queens. 

The 36th District encompasses most of western and central Astoria, as well as its surrounding neighborhoods, including Ditmars, Astoria Heights, and northern Long Island City.

In June 2021, Assemblyman Mamdani spoke at a rally and march that drew a connection between the racial tension in Ferguson, Missouri (when an 18-year-old Black man, Michael Brown, was fatally shot by a white police officer), and land disputes between Jewish and Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem.  

Before his ascension into politics, Mamdani was a foreclosure prevention counselor who also moonlighted as a rapper, first under the name Young Cardamom and later as Mr. Cardamom.

Does anyone voting for New York City mayor in November find it alarming that Zohran Mamdani has a history of praising Hamas?

Self-described Socialist, Mamdani once voiced his “love” for the five leaders of the notorious nonprofit Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), the largest Muslim charity in the U.S. HLF was shut down by U.S. authorities in 2001. The five leaders known as the “Holy Land Five” were convicted of providing material support by funneling more than $12 million to the terror group Hamas.

In December 2001 – three months after 9/11 — the feds shut down the HLF, seized its assets, and designated it a terror group. The group reportedly raised $57 million from its inception in 1992 through 2001, but only reported $36 million to the Internal Revenue Service.

In 2017, and in Mamdani’s own shocking words, he praised and professed his love for the Holy Land Five—the heads of a terror group, and funders of Hamas:

“My love to the Holy Land Five. You better look ’em up,” Mamdani, the then-rapper, said in a song called “Salaam” about growing up Muslim in New York.

So, I looked them up.

The five heads of the now-defunct Texas-based HLF—Shukri Abu Baker, Mohammad El-Mezain, Ghassan Elashi, Mufid Abdulqader, and Abdulrahman Odeh—were all convicted in 2008 on 108 counts by a federal jury of funding Hamas, tax fraud, and money laundering.

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