{"id":367335,"date":"2026-10-07T23:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367335\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T23:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:36:24","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-mayor-mamdanis-oct-7-statement-draws-backlash-from-anti-defamation-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367335\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Mayor Mamdanis Oct 7 Statement Draws Backlash From Anti Defamation League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Wednesday marked three years since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, where about 1,200 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One of their main targets was the Nova Music Festival, where young people were celebrating with electronic dance music.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">More than 250 people were kidnapped and held hostage for months by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The attack led to the Gaza War, and Israel&#8217;s retaliatory strikes have killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a statement Wednesday on X condemning the attacks.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7,&#8221; Mamdani said in an X post. &#8220;We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">[twitter]https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/2107813239585120609?s=20[\/twitter]<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He then went on to criticize Israel, calling its response to the attacks a war crime.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The criticism drew sharp backlash from Anti-Defamation League.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;You are weaponizing a day meant for mourning the worst massacre of Jews since the holocaust. The city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel deserves a mayor who can honor the dead without exploiting them,&#8221; said CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">[twitter]https:\/\/twitter.com\/JGreenblattADL\/status\/2107828938659508440?s=20[\/twitter]<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Gov. Kathy Hochul was also asked about Mamdani&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I traveled to Israel just days after that attack&#8230;and it&#8217;s with me to this day so that was an unprovoked attack on innocent civilians,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday marked three years since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, where about 1,200 people were killed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-367335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367335","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=367335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}