{"id":274452,"date":"2026-06-22T21:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274452\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T21:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:08:42","slug":"mamdani-defends-aipac-monster-remarks-after-questions-over-language-at-brooklyn-campaign-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274452\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani defends AIPAC \u2018monster\u2019 remarks after questions over language at Brooklyn campaign rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday defended comments he made about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aipac.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)<\/a> after he was asked whether language including \u201cmonsters\u201d and \u201cdark money\u201d\u00a0 was dangerous or invoked antisemitic tropes.<\/p>\n<p>AIPAC is a prominent pro-Israel advocacy group that supports candidates through endorsements and political spending. Mamdani\u2019s remarks about it came during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/author\/adam-daly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn rally last week<\/a> for three progressive congressional candidates he has endorsed in Tuesday\u2019s Democratic primaries.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/mamdani-defends-aipac-remarks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tMamdani defends AIPAC \u2018monster\u2019 remarks after questions over language at Brooklyn campaign rally &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday defended comments he made about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64701,98,100,99,1445,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-274452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-aipac","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}