According to a recent report in MEMRI, Qatari journalists are claiming that Zohran Mamdani is now mayor of New York thanks to the October 7th massacre and the Gaza resistance.
By Rachel Avraham
Qatar is a country that is known for its backing of the Hamas terror organization. While the people of Gaza are suffering, the Hamas leadership is living in luxury hotels in Doha, shielding by the Qataris from facing prosecution for their terrorism, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the massacre, rape, mutilation and burning of 1,200 innocent people and the abduction of 251 others to Gaza on October 7, 2023. Given this, it should raise alarm bells that the Qataris are praising the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York.
According to a recent report in MEMRI, “Following the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral race, Qatari journalists and media figures commented on their X accounts, celebrating his win and attributing it to the impact of the “Al-Aqsa Flood”, i.e., Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. These figures wrote that Mamdani’s victory reflects a major perceptual shift in the U.S. and the world and the decline in Israel’s international standing.”
Qatari journalist Abdullah Al-Amadi wrote on his X account: “What is happening in the U.S. is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the outcomes of the Al-Aqsa Flood. The American public has understood—after many long years of imposed slumber, in which Zionism played a role—that supporting injustice and oppression is a moral failure… It is thanks to this understanding that a Muslim candidate who opposes the Zionist aggression won the mayoral race in New York, while the candidate favored by the Zionists, who was supported even by the American President himself or by the oligarchy in general, lost [the race], even though New York is considered to be the second-largest concentration of Jews in the world!!”
Ayman Azzam, a presenter on the Qatari Al-Jazeera network, shared a post by Somali social media activist Hiba Shukri that attributed Mamdani’s victory to October 7 and the boost it gave to the anti-Israel movement. Azzam commented: “The world is changing; The manifestations of the Flood have an impact.”
Jaber Al-Harmi, editor of the Qatari state daily Al-Sharq, posted: “Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York—the capital of the Zionist lobby, which is considered to be the largest stronghold of the Jewish community in the world—despite all the smear campaigns [against him] and despite his opponents receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from dozens of billionaires supporting the Israeli entity.”
According to Al-Harmi, “Mamdani, of Afro-Asian descent, is the first Muslim to hold this position. He has described the events in Gaza as barbaric crimes and a genocide war, and he supports the BDS movement. Two years ago, no one could have imagined such a major shift against the Zionist narrative. The steadfastness and resistance of our people in Gaza have turned the tables on the Zionists and exposed their colonialist settlement project to the entire world.”
Ahmad Mansour, also a presenter on Al-Jazeera, alluded to Trump’s rivalry with Mamdani as well as with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, likewise a Muslim, commenting: “Trump is trapped between Zohran Mamdani in New York and Sadiq Khan in London.”
Photo from Dmitryshein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani#/media/File:Zohran_Mamdani_05.25.25_(b)_(cropped).jpg
