{"id":367863,"date":"2026-10-08T13:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367863\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:54:24","slug":"mamdanis-october-7-smear-by-eli-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367863\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani\u2019s October 7 Smear &#8211; by Eli Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election nearly a year ago, many New Yorkers have chosen to give him a chance. Yes, this is the same guy who struggled to condemn the phrase globalize the intifada on the campaign trail. This is the same politician who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AYExvE7RBSc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">led a rally<\/a> outside Senator Kirsten Gillibrand\u2019s office just 13 days after October 7, 2023, demanding a ceasefire and accusing Israel of genocide. But the trash is getting picked up on time, crime rates have dropped, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suffolk.edu\/-\/media\/suffolk\/documents\/academics\/research-at-suffolk\/suprc\/polls\/city-view\/2026\/9_8_2026_new_york_city_press_release.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">around 60 percent<\/a> of New Yorkers think he is doing a good job.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be fooled. Mamdani hasn\u2019t changed. He is still a smiling wolf masquerading as a sheep. Just consider <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/2107813239585120609?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">his statement<\/a> marking the third anniversary of October 7 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He starts by grieving the \u201chorrific war crimes\u201d of that awful day and recognizing how \u201cprofoundly painful\u201d the atrocity was to New Yorkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever since Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election nearly a year ago, many New Yorkers have chosen to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-367863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367863","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=367863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}