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Zohran Mamdani Dines in Palestinian Restaurant After Attending Oct. 7 Anniversary Vigil
Mediaite ^ | October 8, 2026 | David

Posted on 10/08/2026 6:47:49 AM PDT by Miami Rebel

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was spotted Wednesday dining at a Palestinian restaurant — named for a child killed in Gaza — right after attending a candlelit vigil marking the third anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel.

Mamdani visited Hinds Hall on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a branch of Palestinian chain Ayat. The restaurant takes its name from Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in January 2024 alongside her family by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) while fleeing Gaza City.

NYC @NYCMayor making quite a statement. Having dinner at the only Palestinian restaurant on the Upper West Side this October 7th. pic.twitter.com/6w0FUaq47Y

— kendis (@kendisgibson) October 8, 2026

Before that, the mayor attended a vigil in Union Square, where he was heckled by pro-Palestinian demonstrators who called him a “coward” and “traitor” as he carried a candle and joined a silent march from City Hall honoring those killed in the Hamas attack.

Earlier Wednesday, Mamdani came under criticism when he released a statement describing Oct. 7 as “profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers” and Hamas’ attack as a “horrific war crime” before turning to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and what he called the “devastating, ongoing genocide.”

“The suffering did not begin nor end that day,” he wrote. “It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians — including more than 21,000 children.”

This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable…

— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) October 7, 2026

Mamdani made support for Palestinians a defining part of his political campaign for mayor and has repeatedly accused Israel of committing “genocide” while calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal” and threatening to have him arrested if he came to New York City. The mayor later acknowledged he did not have the power to enforce the arrest.

Last month, Netanyahu hit back in an address to the United Nations General Assembly, branding Mamdani “New York’s anti-Semitic mayor.” Mamdani responded by calling the Israeli leader “the architect of a genocide” and accusing him of trying to “distract from responsibility” by attacking him.


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KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; mamdani; newyork; newyorkcity; palestine; zohranmamdani

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1 posted on 10/08/2026 6:47:50 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel

He’s so subtle in his antisemitism. [/s]


2 posted on 10/08/2026 6:50:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Some people want to control their own life, others want to control the lives of others. )
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To: Miami Rebel

Maybe he’ll get the Gaza Gut of runs


3 posted on 10/08/2026 6:53:25 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Miami Rebel

4 posted on 10/08/2026 6:53:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Miami Rebel

Zohran should learn something about islam.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NpVEMqWAI0k

People need to be educated on islam.


5 posted on 10/08/2026 6:57:00 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Miami Rebel

New Yorkers....What have you done!!!


6 posted on 10/08/2026 6:57:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Miami Rebel

NYC becoming the hog wallow of the west.


7 posted on 10/08/2026 7:00:01 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

Nothing covert about Islam. It’s always shoved right in our face.


8 posted on 10/08/2026 7:09:36 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: Miami Rebel

What’s the big deal? We had an American hating, anti Christ, muslim in the White Shack for 8 years (12, if you count his sycophant slimy biden) and nobody cared.


9 posted on 10/08/2026 7:12:37 AM PDT by LouAvul (They're doing it again because you didn't hang them last time.)
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To: Miami Rebel

Slap in the face of all 9/11 victims and survivors and Americans, which he is not.


10 posted on 10/08/2026 10:05:09 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Miami Rebel

If Karl Marx had a son.........


11 posted on 10/08/2026 11:04:15 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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