{"id":5823,"date":"2025-10-17T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/5823\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:30:10","slug":"zohran-mamdani-under-fire-after-nyc-mayoral-debate-silence-on-hamas-globalize-the-intifada-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/5823\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani under fire after NYC mayoral debate silence on Hamas, ‘Globalize the Intifada’ support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a barrage of assaults on Zohran Mamdani about his stance<\/a> on Israel and Gaza, slamming the Democratic nominee for refusing to denounce the terror group Hamas and the phrase \u201cGlobalize the intifada.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Assemblyman will not denounce Hamas,\u201d Cuomo, who is running as an independent, said during the first general mayoral election debate Thursday night. <\/p>\n

\"AndrewCuomo pointed to Mamdani\u2019s refusal of denouncing Hamas. NBC<\/p>\n

\u201cThe assemblyman will not denounce his Hasan Piker, who said America deserved 9\/11,\u201d<\/a> he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe assemblyman just said in his response, \u2018Well, it depends on occupation,’\u201d Cuomo said, referring to Mamdani\u2019s response to the cease-fire deal brokered by the Trump administration.<\/a><\/p>\n

NYC Mayoral Debate live analysis<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is cold, meaning that the Israel does not have a right to exist as a Jewish state, which he has never acknowledged. That is, from the river to the sea. That\u2019s why he won\u2019t denounce globalize the intifada<\/a>, which means to kill all Jews,\u201d Cuomo seethed.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, a socialist state assemblyman from Queens and the front-runner in the race, has taken blows<\/a> over his belated response to the landmark peace deal announced earlier this week.<\/p>\n

\"NewAndrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa and Zohran Mamdani participate in a mayoral debate, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in New York. AP<\/p>\n

The anti-Israel critic called for an end to \u201coccupation and apartheid\u201d<\/a> in his statement while the living Israeli hostages were returned after two years in Hamas captivity.<\/p>\n

He also refused to say that the terrorist group should lay down its weapons during a Fox News interview Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Follow The Post\u2019s live coverage of the 2025 NYC Mayoral Debate<\/a><\/p>\n

The debate at 30 Rockefeller Center, aired by WNBC, is the first of two general election showdowns.<\/p>\n

It marks the first time Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa appeared on stage to debate alongside Mamdani and Cuomo, who faced-off in the June Democratic primary.<\/p>\n

The candidates will square off again next Wednesday on NY1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a barrage of assaults on Zohran Mamdani about his stance on Israel and Gaza,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[80,5200,59,57,9,24,63,563,134,136,135,58],"class_list":["post-5823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-debate","tag-hamas","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823","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=5823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}