Fresh off of his mayoral election victory, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is already weighing in on local legislative races, throwing his weight behind a left-wing Queens Assembly candidate whose political adviser said it’s time “to draw the fire of the Israeli lobby, ” the Daily News has learned.

Mamdani’s support for Palestinian American activist Aber Kawas — conveyed during a closed-door Democratic Socialists of America meeting last Wednesday — marks the first time the incoming mayor has put his thumb on the scale in a local race since his own Nov. 4 election win.

In backing Kawas, Mamdani, an Assemblyman representing Astoria, puts himself on a collision course with the incumbent in the Assembly district in question, Assemblywoman Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas , who is vacatin

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