WASHINGTON (TNND) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday got backlash for his post about the three-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel.
“This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7,” he wrote in a lengthy post on X. “On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.”
He went on to criticize actions of the Israeli government as the war continues in Gaza, talking about the 74,000 Palestinians that have been killed.
“The suffering did not begin nor end that day,” the post continued. “It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing.”
He also criticized the government funding the war with U.S. tax dollars.
Many people on X slammed Mamdani’s statement, with many saying there is no genocide in Gaza.
“There is no genocide, other than the one you support that Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran’s terror brigades attempt on their neighbor regularly, you terror clown,” conservative radio host Dana Loesch said in response to his post.
Another person responded, “There’s no f*cking genocide. You’re a disgrace.”
Former South Carolina GOP Gov. Nikki Haley called his post antisemitic.
“This is antisemitism, no matter how you try to put a bow on it,” she wrote. “Israelis have every right to defend themselves. If this happened in the U.S., you can bet we would defend ourselves too.”