Zohran Mamdani’s Election Day victory is proof that hating the Jewish State is actually a plus with NYC voters, radical pro-Palestine activist Linda Sarsour declared this week.
“Being unequivocally in solidarity with the Palestinian people, being able to look at what’s happening in Palestine, and calling it genocide, supporting nonviolent, resistance to apartheid in the form of the [anti-Israel] Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions [movement], for example, is in fact not a political liability,” Sarsour said Wednesday to 240 predominately like-minded haters during a webinar hosted by her Muslim advocacy group MPower Change.
“It actually sends you to City Hall.”
Now is the time to ride the momentum — and not let up, Sarsour said at the event, entitled “Zohran’s Victory and Implications for the Progressive Movement.”
“We hope that candidates across the country who are running for local, state, federal offices in 2026 are looking at what happened in New York City and saying to themselves: ‘I can be courageous. I can truly put forth the values that I believe in, and there will be enough people who will . . . be inspired by my courage and my moral convictions, that I, in fact, can win office in any part of the country,’” said Sarsour.
“I feel fired up!” gushed Sarsour, a notorious antisemite who has been a longtime mentor of anti-Israel Mamdani.
“And now it’s time to say, ‘Where are we going in 2026? How do we build on this momentum?’”
Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) said hate won’t win in Gotham. Mamdani barely got 50% of the mayoral votes, and his win isn’t “convincing anyone of anything,” she told The Post.
“The reality is that almost the same number of voters who supported Mamdani also voted against his policies, and six million New Yorkers didn’t vote at all,” she said.
“Voters were lured by Mamdani’s focus on the issue of affordability. It was his totally undoable solutions that sold them. If the Left thinks that the way to victory is to advocate for a ‘globalized intifada,’ they’re going to fail miserably in the midterms.”
Ex-Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Queens) agreed in part with Sarsour’s analysis.
“Jew-hatred has always been a tried-and-true tool of demagogues, and she’s right that Zohran Mamdani’s particularly obsessive hatred of the Jewish state helped him capture the mayoralty,” said the longtime critic of Sarsour.
“But I think her frustration at the utter destruction of the forces arrayed against Israel after October 7th is getting the better of her political judgment. Zohran’s brand of anti-Israel fanaticism has currency in very few districts and jurisdictions, as the next cycle will surely bear out.”
Sarsour’s contempt for the Jewish state long predates the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli civilians that sparked the war in Gaza. She declared in 2018 that fellow Muslims shouldn’t “humanize” Israelis because they’re the “oppressor.”
The 45-year-old activist is a former leader of the Women’s March on Washington that organized after President Trump won his first term. But she and two other founding members were booted from the group over their unapologetic embrace of Jew-hating Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Other webinar speakers included Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party; and Geoff Simpson, campaign director for Justice Democrats, an extreme left group that helped elect Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and other “Squad” members to Congress.
Mitchell touted how the WFP’s “coalition building” through the Big Apple’s rank-choice voting system was crucial in Mamdani’s Democratic primary win over ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo — but conceded he’s no fan of rank-choice voting expanding to general elections, where Cuomo would have likely benefitted.
He also expressed optimism that the Working Families Party will be flexing its political muscles heading into the 2026 midterm elections — even at the expense of an embattled Democratic Party.
“In order to fully take advantage of 2026 and beyond, we’re gonna have to think way outside the Democratic Party because of the brand damage, which is why we’re building the Working Families Party, and why we’re going to be leaning in, you know, having conversations with Geoff [Simpson] about the Congressional slate of progressives,” Mitchell said.
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