From Fox News: A resurfaced interview by New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani highlights his commitment to BDS and sanctions against Israel, as he runs for mayor in a city with the highest Jewish population in the United States outside of Israel.
“I’m very excited about being a member of DSA, specifically the New York City chapter,” Mamdani told SAAG Interactive in June 2021.
“Within the questionnaire when you submit to be considered a candidate to be endorsed by the organization, you’re asked what your views are on BDS and I think that has also brought what it is typically thought of as a separate issue into the sphere of local politics where we create a bench of candidates. We’re not legislating on BDS on a daily basis, but it’s clear that our commitment is unabashed to justice.”
Mamdani was interviewed in the clip by a journalist named Naib Mian, who has a social presence littered with anti-Israel posts, including accusing Israel of benefitting from “manufacturing antisemitism” and defending the phrase “from the river to the sea.”
In the interview, Mamdani voices his support for the BDS movement, which stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions and calls for a boycott against all trade and investments related to Israel.
“And I think there is no thing that’s too banal to stand up against the brutality of the occupation and apartheid. And so, you know, if it’s a shipping container, or if it is a university that is being funded, a university that helped to develop IDF’s weapons technology, or it is an event with an Israeli ambassador, whatever it may be, I think that we have to showcase what that solidarity looks like,” Mamdani says.
Mamdani has expressed support for BDS all the way back to his college days, and founded the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at the Bowdoin College in Maine.
In May, he attempted to defend himself, saying, “My support for BDS is consistent with my core of my politics, which is non-violence.”
Fox News provided the newly-surfaced video. Watch below:
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