{"id":27632,"date":"2025-11-04T00:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/27632\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T00:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:26:16","slug":"linda-sarsour-tells-followers-she-will-hold-zohran-accountable-if-mamdani-wins-nyc-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/27632\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Sarsour tells followers she will \u2018hold Zohran accountable\u2019 if Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour<\/a>\u00a0vowed to make sure\u00a0Zohran Mamdani<\/a>\u00a0doesn\u2019t backtrack on his radical campaign policies if he is elected mayor \u2013\u00a0and boasted that she and a Hamas-linked nonprofit helped fuel his rise.<\/p>\n

Sarsour, a political mentor and close friend of the\u00a0silver-spoon socialist<\/a>, denied she would work for a potential Mamdani administration but promised she would still do whatever it takes to hold him \u201caccountable\u201d \u2014\u00a0boldly declaring that she won\u2019t let him \u201cdo whatever the hell he wants when he gets to City Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want you all to know I\u2019m not going to work for the Zohran administration,\u201d Sarsour said in an Instagram livestream late Saturday, which was viewed by Fox News.<\/p>\n

A member of the\u00a0Democratic Socialists of America,\u00a0along with Mamdani, Sarsour has been like a\u00a0political mentor\u00a0to Mamdani, according to reports. Linda Sarsour\/ Instagram<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to work in City Hall, because, guess what? There gotta be people like me willing to stay outside,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur friends on the inside need people on the outside to hold them accountable. To say, \u2018We see you. We\u2019re paying attention\u2019,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

In a clip from a different Sarsour speech\u00a0that circulated Monday<\/a>, the Hamas-supporting, Palestinian-American firebrand\u00a0hinted that she would spill the beans about Mamdani\u2019s rapid political ascent \u2014 and the flood of cash from the\u00a0Council on American-Islamic Relations\u00a0behind it \u2014 after Election Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce November 4th comes around, I will tell the story. The story is not just that it\u2019s random that Zohran ascended to this place, it is our Muslim-American community,\u201d\u00a0she said<\/a>\u00a0while speaking\u00a0at\u00a0CAIR\u2019s\u00a02025 Leadership & Policy Conference last month.<\/p>\n

Linda Sarsour said she will \u201chold Zohran accountable\u201d 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<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019ll also say that it\u2019s 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,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0pushed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to investigate<\/a>\u00a0claims the nonprofit is bankrolled by Hamas.\u00a0The nonprofit was allegedly\u00a0provided \u201cseed money\u201d by the terror group<\/a>, according to evidence presented in a congressional hearing.<\/p>\n

Sarsour went on to identify the\u00a0CAIR-funded\u00a0Unity and Justice Fund PAC as \u201cthe\u00a0largest institutional donor to the pro-Zohran super PAC in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Sarsour, 45, an activist\u00a0who is a member of the\u00a0Democratic Socialists of America alongside Mamdani,\u00a0insisted that her posse would speak out if the Democratic nominee and front-runner in the heated race didn\u2019t follow through with his Marxist promises.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he does something when he\u2019s in City Hall and he\u2019s wrong, I\u2019m going to tell him he\u2019s\u00a0wrong,\u201d Sarsour said on the\u00a0Instagram livestream, according to Fox.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur friends on the inside need people on the outside to hold them accountable. To say, \u2018We see you. We\u2019re paying attention,\u201d Sarsour continued. James Keivom<\/p>\n

\u201cVoting for Zohran is not, \u2018We\u2019re going to vote for Zohran and just let him do whatever the hell he wants when he gets to City Hall.\u2019 Our job as a movement is we have to hold whoever goes to City Hall accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarsour even got a head start inserting herself in City Hall affairs, dumping on Mamdani\u2019s suggestion that he would keep\u00a0NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch<\/a>\u00a0on, if he is elected.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t really happy about the news that he was going to keep Tisch on for the NYPD,\u201d she railed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s 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, \u2018You gotta do A-B-C,\u2019 Tisch gotta do what the mayor says,\u201d\u00a0Sarsour continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, if she doesn\u2019t do that and goes against the mayor, then that\u2019s when we\u2019re going to have to go to Zohran and be like, \u2018You definitely made the wrong decision here. What are you going to do to hold your police commissioner accountable to the plan?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarsour also signaled Mamdani would owe her and other supporters if he wins.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Zohran gets inaugurated in January, and as we move forward with this mayor, we have to be the people outside,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cZohran is going to have to tell his own critics that are on the other side to basically say, \u2018Look out that window, those people outside, these constituents, these activists, these organizers that are outside, I\u2019m accountable to them, because they\u2019re the ones that helped me get there.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarsour\u00a0is believed to be\u00a0among those who have helped shape\u00a0<\/a>the Queens assemblyman\u2019s radical views, as well as his far-left hatred of Israel, according to a foreign intelligence report and critics.<\/p>\n

Sarsour\u00a0has a history of spewing contempt for the Jewish state \u2013 long before the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attack.<\/p>\n

She declared in 2018 that fellow Muslims shouldn\u2019t humanize Israelis because they\u2019re the enemy.<\/p>\n

Sarsour also previously spoke\u00a0glowingly of\u00a0notorious Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj<\/a>, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who Mamdani posed for a smiley photo with while on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour\u00a0vowed to make sure\u00a0Zohran Mamdani\u00a0doesn\u2019t backtrack on his radical campaign policies if he is elected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11644,1208,57,9,56,63,65,1093,64,87,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-27632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-linda-sarsour","9":"tag-media","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-us-news","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632","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=27632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}