\n \u201cThis day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. 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,\u201d Mamdani wrote in his statement.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is booed upon arrival to an October 7 vigil\n <\/p>\n 0:20<\/p>\n \u2022 Source:<\/p>\n New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is booed upon arrival to an October 7 vigil<\/p>\n 0:20<\/p>\n \u2022 <\/p>\n \n \u201cThe suffering did not begin nor end that day,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cIt instead continued through the Israeli government\u2019s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians\u2014including 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. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them\u2014all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes,\u201d Mamdani wrote.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThree years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment. To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity,\u201d the statement finished.\n <\/p>\n \n Hamas-led gunmen stormed Israeli communities along the border with Gaza on October 7<\/a>, 2023, killing more than 1,200 people, including children, women and elderly people. The attackers also took 251 hostages.\n <\/p>\n Mamdani doubles down on criticism of Netanyahu, calling him a “war criminal”\n <\/p>\n Mamdani doubles down on criticism of Netanyahu, calling him a “war criminal”<\/p>\n 1:23<\/p>\n \n The mayor, a prominent critic of Israel\u2019s government, received immediate backlash from some Jewish leaders on social media for his statement.\n <\/p>\n \n Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, accused Mamdani of \u201cweaponizing a day meant for mourning the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust to recycle your usual antizionist talking points,\u201d in a post on X.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThe city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel deserves a mayor who can honor the dead without exploiting them,\u201d he wrote. The Anti-Defamation League has launched a \u201cMamdani Monitor\u201d<\/a> to track the mayor\u2019s administration.\n <\/p>\n \n The president and director of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation similarly referred to New York\u2019s status as the city with the largest Jewish community outside Israel, saying \u201cthe Jewish people should be afforded this one day to mourn the murdered, the raped and the children left orphaned, without having their grief reframed as an indictment of Israel.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cPalestinians have suffered enormously from the war Hamas unleashed, and their suffering deserves recognition,\u201d Jack Simony wrote, adding Mamdani \u201cshould understand the weight of this day for the Jewish New Yorkers he represents.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n The American Israel Public Affairs Committee called Mamdani\u2019s statement<\/a> a \u201cdisgraceful moral failure.\u201d Mamdani has denounced the organization for its spending in US elections.\n <\/p>\n \n Last month, the mayor announced the first-ever municipal strategy for New York City to combat antisemitism, including tens of millions of dollars in funding for hate crime prevention and Jewish cultural centers.\n <\/p>\n \n Mamdani, who has faced accusations of antisemitism from some Jewish groups over his criticisms of Israel <\/a>and his handling of protests <\/a>outside synagogues, has attempted to make outreach to Jewish communities in the city a strong element of his administration.\n <\/p>\n \n During his campaign, he suggested as mayor he would seek to arrest<\/a> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under an International Criminal Court warrant for war crimes, even though the US is not a signatory to the ICC. 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