Linda Sarsour tells followers she will ‘hold Zohran accountable’ if Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

Antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour vowed to make sure Zohran Mamdani doesn’t backtrack on his radical campaign policies if he is elected mayor – and boasted that she and a Hamas-linked nonprofit helped fuel his rise.

Sarsour, a political mentor and close friend of the silver-spoon socialist, denied she would work for a potential Mamdani administration but promised she would still do whatever it takes to hold him “accountable” — boldly declaring that she won’t let him “do whatever the hell he wants when he gets to City Hall.”

“I just want you all to know I’m not going to work for the Zohran administration,” Sarsour said in an Instagram livestream late Saturday, which was viewed by Fox News.

A member of the Democratic Socialists of America, along with Mamdani, Sarsour has been like a political mentor to Mamdani, according to reports. Linda Sarsour/ Instagram

“I’m not going to work in City Hall, because, guess what? There gotta be people like me willing to stay outside,” she said.

“Our friends on the inside need people on the outside to hold them accountable. To say, ‘We see you. We’re paying attention’,” she added.

In a clip from a different Sarsour speech that circulated Monday, the Hamas-supporting, Palestinian-American firebrand hinted that she would spill the beans about Mamdani’s rapid political ascent — and the flood of cash from the Council on American-Islamic Relations behind it — after Election Day.

“Once November 4th comes around, I will tell the story. The story is not just that it’s random that Zohran ascended to this place, it is our Muslim-American community,” she said while speaking at CAIR’s 2025 Leadership & Policy Conference last month.

Linda Sarsour said she will “hold Zohran accountable” to fulfill campaign promises, including dismantling an NYPD unit that polices terrorism threats, protests, and riots, if he wins the race. MediaNews Group via Getty Images

“And I’ll also say that it’s Muslim money. PACs that have supported Zohran, or a particular PAC that has supported Zohran is probably over 80% of Muslim-American donors in this country,” she said.

CAIR, which describes itself as a Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, is currently under scrutiny by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who have pushed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to investigate claims the nonprofit is bankrolled by Hamas. The nonprofit was allegedly provided “seed money” by the terror group, according to evidence presented in a congressional hearing.

Sarsour went on to identify the CAIR-funded Unity and Justice Fund PAC as “the largest institutional donor to the pro-Zohran super PAC in New York.”

According to public records, the Unity and Justice PAC gave $120,000 total to Lower Costs, an NYC-based pro-Mamdani PAC, out of about $3 million in donations this cycle.

Sarsour, 45, an activist who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America alongside Mamdani, insisted that her posse would speak out if the Democratic nominee and front-runner in the heated race didn’t follow through with his Marxist promises.

“When he does something when he’s in City Hall and he’s wrong, I’m going to tell him he’s wrong,” Sarsour said on the Instagram livestream, according to Fox.

“Our friends on the inside need people on the outside to hold them accountable. To say, ‘We see you. We’re paying attention,” Sarsour continued. James Keivom

“Voting for Zohran is not, ‘We’re going to vote for Zohran and just let him do whatever the hell he wants when he gets to City Hall.’ Our job as a movement is we have to hold whoever goes to City Hall accountable.”

Sarsour even got a head start inserting herself in City Hall affairs, dumping on Mamdani’s suggestion that he would keep NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on, if he is elected.

“I wasn’t really happy about the news that he was going to keep Tisch on for the NYPD,” she railed.

“What’s most important is that in New York City, the police commissioner works for the mayor. They are not a separate elected official. So that means if Zohran says to Tisch, ‘You gotta do A-B-C,’ Tisch gotta do what the mayor says,” Sarsour continued.

“Now, if she doesn’t do that and goes against the mayor, then that’s when we’re going to have to go to Zohran and be like, ‘You definitely made the wrong decision here. What are you going to do to hold your police commissioner accountable to the plan?’”

Sarsour also signaled Mamdani would owe her and other supporters if he wins.

“When Zohran gets inaugurated in January, and as we move forward with this mayor, we have to be the people outside,” she said.

“Zohran is going to have to tell his own critics that are on the other side to basically say, ‘Look out that window, those people outside, these constituents, these activists, these organizers that are outside, I’m accountable to them, because they’re the ones that helped me get there.’”

Sarsour is believed to be among those who have helped shape the Queens assemblyman’s radical views, as well as his far-left hatred of Israel, according to a foreign intelligence report and critics.

Sarsour has a history of spewing contempt for the Jewish state – long before the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attack.

She declared in 2018 that fellow Muslims shouldn’t humanize Israelis because they’re the enemy.

Sarsour also previously spoke glowingly of notorious Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who Mamdani posed for a smiley photo with while on the campaign trail.