Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party nominee for mayor of New York, says that he will direct the city to dump its Israel bonds, because — he claims — they implicate the city in “violations of international law.”
Mamdani, a democratic socialist and Muslim, has a long history of anti-Israel activism, among his other radical views.
The Jerusalem Post , citing a local CBS interview, reported Monday:
If elected mayor of New York, Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani intends to end the city’s investments in Israeli government bonds, he said Sunday.
…“The most important thing is to understand where we are directly implicated within the city pension fund,” he said. “A pension fund that purchases Israeli bonds, in my view, is clearly an indication of a conflict with our values, and we k