As New York City’s November mayoral election approaches, front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy continues to face familiar attacks and Islamophobic smears. While Mamdani has attempted to focus his campaign on making New York City more affordable, establishment figures have largely focused on his relationship to the Palestine solidarity movement as a means to attack him. This was evident during the mayoral debate on October 16, when Mamdani’s opponent Andrew Cuomo repeated his accusation that Mamdani refuses to denounce the phrase “globalize the Intifada,” insisting, obviously falsely and in bad faith, that the phrase means “kill all Jews.”

Mamdani’s history as part of the Palestine solidarity movement is simultaneously responsible for his upset primary victory, and a magnet for attacks

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