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In late September 2017, Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour, once the darling of the Women’s March and the self-declared face of the "resistance" against Donald Trump, was facing mounting criticism for antisemitic remarks and her embrace of extremist views. But, beaming in a photograph taken on a city sidewalk, Sarsour appeared unfazed, her iconic fist pumped in the air as she knelt shoulder-to-shoulder with campaign volunteers for City Council candidate Khader El-Yateem. The photo was posted by El-Yateem on the Facebook page he used to promote his campaign, which he lost, but among the smiling faces was a young organizer...

ROTTERDAM, NY (WRGB) — A Rotterdam woman is accused of threatening to shoot a Schenectady County legislator. Josh Cuomo is running for re-election on the Republican and Conservative line. He says he was going door-to-door in Rotterdam with his family when a woman asked him if he was a Trump supporter. Cuomo says that’s when she started becoming aggressive.

It’s close, but Muslims in New York may now outnumber Jews. It’s a demographic race with political implications. Analysts trying to understand why Canada, Britain, and France are moving to recognize a Palestinian state have pointed to demographic shifts and growing Muslim populations in those countries. The Canadian government reported this year that “the proportion of Canada’s population who reported being Muslim has more than doubled in 20 years,” to “4.9% (1,775,715 people) in 2021” from “2.0% (579,640 people) in 2001.” In Britain, the census reported that the Muslim population in England and Wales had soared to “3.9 million, 6.5%...

Vice President JD Vance has maintained a narrow lead over Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom in the latest hypothetical poll for the 2028 presidential race, according to a survey from Emerson College. The poll shows Vance with 46% support, while Newsom trails closely with 45%, leaving 10% of participants undecided. While neither figure has formally announced a presidential bid, both are widely considered the likely frontrunners for their respective parties in the next election. A Tightening Contest The results are the latest in a series of head-to-head match-ups conducted by Emerson College, which indicate a tightening race. Vance’s current one-point...

Democratic candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Madmani delivered a speach on Saturday from a Bronx mosque to explain to voters how the World Trade Center attacks had made New York unsafe for Muslims. Madmani recounted personal stories about being questioned at airports and mocked by political rivals, using the attacks of 9/11 as a backdrop to frame Muslims as the city’s most maligned group. “I will always remember the disdain that I faced, the way that my name could immediately become Muhammad,” Madmani said, suggesting that his faith continues to make him a target in post-9/11 New York....

The first immigration case NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani may have to confront if elected could be his own – as two House Republicans push the Justice Department to probe his path to citizenship and possibly boot him from the US. Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) last week demanded the feds “review every naturalization of the past 30 years – starting with Mamdani.” “I just think we need to take a hard look at how these folks became citizens, and if there is any fraud or any violation of the rules we need to denaturalize and deport,” Fine told the Post.

Democrats’ meltdown over “Islamophobic” comments allegedly chuckled over by Andrew Cuomo is a foretaste of a future Mamdani mayoralty: Expect all criticism of the devoutly anti-Zionist socialist to be denounced as attacks on his religion. Let’s be clear: Calling Zohran Mamdani an anti-American supporter of terrorism has nothing to do with his religion and everything to do with his record of statements, actions and associations. It was Mamdani who wrote and sang a rap song giving his “love” to the Holy Land Five, American Hamas financers convicted and sent to prison for up to 65 years. It is also Mamdani...

Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby Zohran Mamdani’s intern Arzoo Malik is calling for a Holy War through Jihad and martyrdom: “This is all jihad, this is all ibada, and this is all counted for by Allah. How committed am I to this? What am I willing to sacrifice for this noble cause?”

A lot of people have asked me if I will get involved in the NYC mayor race by supporting a candidate that can defeat Zohran Mamdani. TBH, I’m torn and undecided. Like every other city run by democrats, NYC is a broken kleptocracy. Taxes are astronomical and services are pathetic to nonexistent. Anarchy and socialism are the next logical steps in this story arc. It's what the people of NYC have been asking for for years and it looks like it's what they are about to get. Trying to fight against this tide seems like throwing good money after bad....

The House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, endorsed Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor on Friday, ending a four-month standoff that left the Democratic nominee without the backing of one of the party’s most powerful figures until the day before early voting begins. The announcement arrives after months of pressure from progressives in Congress and after the top Democrat has been repeatedly grilled by reporters about his reluctance to support his party’s candidate. “Zohran Mamdani has relentlessly focused on addressing the affordability crisis and explicitly committed to being a mayor for all New Yorkers, including those who do not support...

More than a quarter of New Yorkers will consider fleeing the Big Apple if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor, according to a new poll that warns that a socialist-run City Hall “could reshape the city for years to come.” The shocking new survey, released Friday morning from polling firm Victory Insights, revealed that a “whopping” 26.5% of respondents were thinking about moving in 2026 if the Democratic Socialists of America lawmaker takes the helm. The poll has Mamdani dominating every combination of match-ups, with his majority seemingly inevitable with healthy leads in each. In the most likely three-way race, the...

We’re just days away from the New York City mayoral race. Communist and foreigner Zohran Mamdani, who identifies as a “Democratic socialist,” is in the lead to win. He's never had a job, but he's about to land a big one. Many have argued a Mamdani win will be “good” for Republicans, especially ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The claim is Mamdani’s radicalism can be used to corner Democrats as extreme and out of touch with regular Americans. This may be true in some cases, but it’s a dangerous game and one Democrats like Chuck Schumer are already losing....

Bernie Sanders said: “Billionaires should not exist.”Source:https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1176481898685710337Billionaires should not exist. https://t.co/hgR6CeFvLa— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) September 24, 2019Zohran Mamdani said:“I don’t think that we should have billionaires.”Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VowT8L8Uu6kI have four questions for Sanders, Mamdani, and anyone else who believes that billionaires should not exist.But first, I’d like to present some background information before I ask those four questions.Aluminum used to be so expensive that it was considered a precious metal. When they built the Washington Monument, they put a 20 pound piece of aluminum at the top. At the time, it was the biggest piece of refined aluminum in the world.Since then,...

Zohran Mamdani took an unprecedented beating during Wednesday night’s mayoral debate – but Wall Street is still bracing for the worst come Nov. 4, sources told On The Money. The socialist firebrand got roasted by rivals Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa over everything from antisemitism to his pie-in-the-sky ideas about buses and the rent. The rivals also capitalized on Mamdani’s bizarre failure to take a position on key ballot initiatives – provoking groans from a TV audience. Nevertheless, many of the city’s big business leaders skipped watching the debate altogether – fretting that it may be too little, too late...

The powerful Brooklyn Democrat plans to endorse the democratic socialist Friday afternoon.The long-awaited nod from Jeffries is certain to prove divisive in the fractured party as it seeks a path out of the political wilderness ahead of next year’s midterms. Jeffries’ decision leaves Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as the last key person in state Democratic leadership to withhold support from Mamdani.Before the expected endorsement Friday, Jeffries sought to keep the focus on the federal shutdown.“Stay tuned,” he told reporters in Washington, giving his stock reply on a Mamdani endorsement. “I have not refused to endorse. I have refused to...

By propagating lies about ‘occupation,’ ‘apartheid’ and ‘genocide,’ he helps promote antisemitism.An Irishman and a Jew walk into a Japanese restaurant. It sounds like a joke setup, but there was nothing funny about this near-terminal event for our longstanding friendship—this vignette of being a Jewish New Yorker in 2025. The stark choice we’d each be making between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, divisiveness or unity, loomed throughout. We talked and laughed about travel, cycling and our loved ones. Then he asked: “Isn’t it terrible where we’ve ended up in the Middle East?” I was still elated from the Israeli hostages’...

As the political establishment runs about with their hair on fire screaming about the upcoming horrors of a Mamdani win in the New York City mayor’s race, I laugh with delight.Include political and social “elites” and I agree 100%.First, lets get real. NYC, unfortunately like a lot of places in the country, is basically one-party rule. Therefore, whoever wins the primary has an enormous probability of winning the general election. The real fight is in the primary.Everyone knows this. Everyone. I’m not the one who didn’t take the communist Mamdani as a serious candidate and basically handed him the primary...

The federal indictment of New York’s attorney general centers on a home she purchased for a relative. It is an act that rings deeply familiar to many.To some Black families, it was an intimately familiar arrangement.A woman whose parents fled a life of sharecropping in the South was among the first in her family to achieve a prestigious career. She extended her help to relatives who had less, even buying a home for a grandniece in need of stability.The house sits at the center of the indictment of Letitia James, the New York attorney general, by the Justice Department. She...

Life was never the same for New Yorkers after the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001, with every resident coping with the trauma and devastation of that day. But for Muslim New Yorkers there was an added burden: the suspicion and sometimes physical harm now lurking around every corner. Vigilante violence against Arabs and Muslims exploded across the city and around the country. In what feels very much like a precursor to today’s ruthless ICE raids, mass arrests swept up Muslims on flimsy immigration pretexts, with many of them being held under extremely abusive conditions. The contemporary national security state...

~I can't decide whether this is the sort of ad you run when your internals show you're done and you've got nothing to lose, or when it's way closer than anyone ever expected and just needs one extra push: This is the wildest attack ad I've ever seen in politics. Andrew Cuomo pulling out all the stops. pic.twitter.com/rPQ77Z3bE7 — Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) October 23, 2025 What's interesting is that in an ad playing up to every stereotype about Democrat client groups there's no mention of what is Mr Mamdani's most obvious glass-ceiling-shattering quality: his "Muslimness", as Sir Keir Starmer's working...