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NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani reveals his true imperialist colours

Zohran Mamdani, the front-running Mayoral candidate in New York City, has caused uproar on social media over a statement he made on October 7.

Mamdani is currently ahead in the polls by 18 points, and his position on issues such as taxing the rich has won him popularity among New Yorkers.

Previously, Mamdani has expressed anti-Israel views and called for defunding the police. However, he claims to have softened his view on both.

That said, his statement on 7 October 2025 – the two-year anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel- has stirred massive controversy online.

Mamdani managed to frame Palestinian resistance to 80 years of brutal Israeli occupation as equivalent to those 80 years of Israeli violence.

Justifying violence against Palestinians

He has reinforced the same frameworks that politicians across the world have been using to justify further violence against Palestinians for the past two years.

He seemingly attempted to condemn Israel’s crimes, but in reality, he completely distorted the facts.

Hannibal directive

Israel’s use of the Hannibal directive has been widely covered by the media. Yet still, Mamdani claimed Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis. This has been proven to be a fabrication.

According to Electronic Intifada, Israeli implementation of the Hannibal Directive was official, almost immediate, and deliberate.

Additionally, it took place in the knowledge of the risk of “endangerment or harming of the lives of civilians in the region, including the captives themselves”.

Mamdani’s attempts to ‘both sides’ a literal live-streamed genocide appear to have alienated a large proportion of his supporters.

Even so, Zionists have still attacked Mamdani for the same statement. His pathetic attempts to appease the right have blown up in his face. He managed to piss everyone off.

Erasure

Zohran also managed to write a whole statement without once mentioning Palestine or Palestinians.

Did he forget how to spell it?

People living under occupation have a right to resistance – by any means necessary.

Resisting the coloniser

This week, Mamdani managed to further distance himself from the far-left by attacking both Cuba and Venezuela. He claimed the leaders of both countries were ‘dictators’.

As the Canary previously reported, US military forces attacked two more Venezuelan vessels in international waters near the South American nation on 3 and 4 October. This brings the total number of similar strikes to four, with at least 21 people dead. This is a clear violation of international law.

‘Democratic socialist’

Mamdani’s campaign has been based on his socialist values. But now, he seems to have taken a cop out.

This is also the same Cuba that repeated chest-beating US administrations have imposed an imperialistic embargo on for the past 65 years after Fidel Castro defeated US-backed tyrant Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship. The long-term economic sanctions have decimated the Cuban economy –

Mamdani is standing to be a politician in a country that is arguably the current most brutal imperial power. Where’s the critical thinking?

He’s shown that he isn’t truly far-left.

But if you want to talk about dictatorships.

Mamdami is running on a democratic socialist platform, yet in recent days, he has shown that deep down, his values are much the same as those of the imperialist leaders currently governing the US. His attempts not to piss off the pro-Israel lobby have backfired, and it now seems that there is no one he hasn’t pissed off.

Feature image via Zohran Mamdani for NYC/YouTube 

By HG

This post was originally published on Canary.