{"id":312024,"date":"2026-08-02T17:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312024\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:52:07","slug":"israels-nyc-consul-general-says-mayor-is-antisemitic-with-fake-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312024\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel’s NYC Consul-General says mayor is antisemitic with fake smile"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> is an antisemite hiding behind a fake smile, Israel’s Consul-General in New York City, Ofir Akunis, accused in an interview with CBS News on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“He is saying, I will ensure the security of the Jewish community in New York. How will you do it if you are saying that Israel is responsible for a genocide in Gaza?” Akunis said. “This is a disgusting lie, Mr. mayor. You know that there is no genocide in the Gaza Strip.”<\/p>\n

Akunis also condemned Mamdani<\/a> for using the word “monsters” to describe the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the influential pro-Israel lobby group in the United States.<\/p>\n

“It’s the same word that the Germans, that the Nazi<\/a> regime used against the Jewish community,” Akunis said.<\/p>\n

The consul-general finished the interview by warning the United States, saying that he was a big admirer of the country.<\/p>\n

“It’s very emotional to me to see the American flag right here in the streets of Manhattan,” he stated. “I don’t want to see them force the Sharia laws<\/a> on you. You must stop them now before it will be too late for you.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an antisemite hiding behind a fake smile, Israel’s Consul-General in New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64701,3862,9,24,55,54,56,58625,118000,901,82],"class_list":["post-312024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-aipac","tag-antisemitism","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-ofir-akunis","tag-sharia-law","tag-united-states","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312024","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=312024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}