Three Years After Hamas’s October 7 Massacre, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani Hijacks the Day to Attack Israel

American Greatness ^ | 9 Oct. 2026 | Fred Fleitz

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On Wednesday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sparked outrage with a statement that opened with a brief nod to those killed in the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack but devoted most of its length to accusing Israel of genocide.

The statement began, “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.” Then he turned to Israel-bashing: “The suffering did not begin nor end that day. 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.” Mamdani accused Israel of bombing ambulances and targeting journalists with drone strikes and blocking food aid, charged that American tax dollars were financing Israeli “war crimes,” and closed by demanding an end to “occupation and apartheid.”

Mamdani never called the Hamas attack terrorism. As Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt pointed out, he never once used the word “Jews.” He understated the Israeli death toll—roughly 1,200, not “more than 1,100”—while presenting dubious casualty figures from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry as settled fact. And he framed the anniversary of the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust as the opening chapter of an Israeli crime.

Israeli and American officials sharply condemned these smears. Israel’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, said Mamdani was trying to “hijack” the day and compared the statement to “turning September 11 into a day of mourning for al-Qaeda terrorists.” U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called it an “outrageous & disgusting rant” on a day that “ought to honor the over 1,200 civilians butchered by Hamas,” and wrote that New York had elected a “jihadist sympathizer.” Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Yechiel Leiter—speaking from the hospital bedside of a son critically injured in a Palestinian car-ramming—said it was “hard to find a sentence in Mamdani’s post that isn’t a lie” and called him “a defender of Palestinian terrorism.” New York’s Israeli consul general, Ofir Akunis, called the message a “disgrace, shame, and insult to the memory of those who were murdered.”

The criticism was not confined to Israelis or Republicans. Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused Mamdani of “desecrating the memory of murdered, innocent Jews.” Rep. Josh Gottheimer said he was “blam[ing] the victims.” Rep. Daniel Goldman, who represents parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, called the message “reprehensible” and noted that Mamdani “asserts as fact hotly disputed allegations.”

This was not a one-off. On the second anniversary last year, then-candidate Mamdani followed the same script, calling October 7 a “horrific war crime” before pivoting to accuse Israel of waging a “genocidal war.” Each year the “war crime” line is there, and each year Mamdani uses it to serve the same purpose: throat-clearing before an indictment of Israel.

Three years on, the facts of October 7 have not changed: Hamas and its allies carried out the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. Twelve hundred people were murdered in Israel. About 250 were taken hostage. Attackers filmed themselves killing civilians at the Nova music festival and in the kibbutzim, burning families in their homes, raping women and girls, and murdering the elderly and infants.

What has changed is how readily those facts are being pushed aside. Mamdani’s message shows how it is done—acknowledge the atrocity in a single clause, then “contextualize” it until the victims become a preamble and Hamas disappears from the story. That is not a way to honor the victims of the October 7 massacre. It is revisionism, and it speaks with the authority of City Hall in the city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel. New York’s Jews deserved a mayor who could grieve with them for one day without an asterisk. On Wednesday, they learned they do not have one.

But Mamdani is not an outlier. He is a symptom. The October 7 massacre is being buried because it interferes with a long-standing liberal and radical narrative that casts Palestinians as innocent victims and Israelis as oppressors. That narrative cannot survive the record. Palestinian leaders rejected or walked away from land-for-peace offers in 2000, 2001, and 2008, each of which would have created a Palestinian state. Israel withdrew every soldier and settler from Gaza in 2005; within two years Hamas had seized the territory and turned it into a launchpad for rockets and terror tunnels. Hamas’s founding charter calls for the killing of Jews, and its leaders still pledge a Palestine “from the river to the sea”—a single state with no place for a Jewish state or the Jews who live there. On October 7, Hamas showed the world exactly what that means.

A politics that cannot say this plainly—that Hamas committed genocidal terrorism, and that Israel had the right and the duty to defeat it—is not moving toward peace. It is moving toward the next excuse.

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