stabbing<\/a> of two people, including one Jewish man, by an assailant who reportedly shouted \u201cAllahu akbar.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cAppalled but sadly not surprised,\u201d Sa\u2019ar wrote on X. \u201cThis violence did not happen in a vacuum. Months of incitement against the Jewish state from Mamdani have helped create a climate in which Jews are targeted. Words have consequences. Mamdani must end the incitement, confront antisemitism with resolve, and act now to protect the city\u2019s Jewish community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Danny Danon, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the U.N., wrote on X: \u201cZohran Mamdani, your incitement is putting Jewish lives in danger in New York, home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel. You have spent months fueling hatred, demonizing Israel and legitimizing hostility toward Jews. Now take responsibility for the consequences. Every time you pour more fuel on this fire, you make violence more likely. Stop the incitement. Before more people get hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mamdani, who is Muslim, condemned the attacks, saying in a statement: \u201cThese hateful and despicable attacks have no place in our city.\u201d He has called Israel an apartheid state that\u2019s committing a genocide \u2013 allegations disputed by the U.S., Israel and its allies. During last year\u2019s mayoral campaign, Mamdani repeated and defended the slogan that calls to \u201cglobalize the intifada,\u201d before saying he would discourage it following a backlash.<\/p>\n
Police arrested a suspect in the stabbing attacks in Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side. Raul Morales, 51, is suspected of stabbing an Asian man and a Jewish man and yelling the Arabic phrase \u201cAllahu akbar\u201d during both attacks, witnesses told the New York Police Department, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n
The department was working to determine a motive, AP quoted Commissioner Jessica Tisch as saying. There wasn\u2019t immediately any known link between Morales and the victims, and the initial investigation suggested that mental health may have been a factor in the attacks, Tisch told AP.<\/p>\n
The stabbings happened about two blocks apart in broad daylight. Both victims were taken to a hospital and were expected to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 24, 2026 \/ JNS) Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar on Thursday blamed New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-557143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}