It’s one of the great ironies of our time — and one of the most disturbing.
Zohran Mamdani, a New York State Assemblyman who won the Democratic Nomination to Run for mayor of New York City, whose family fled Uganda under the tyrannical rule of Idi Amin, has now emerged as one of the loudest voices trying to destroy everything America and New York City stands.
He has defended Hamas and attacked Israel.
His political stance isn’t just hypocritical — it’s dangerous, dishonest, and an insult to every New York City resident suffering, post Sept. 11, 2001 and Oct 7, 2023 - as a result of unbridled terrorism.
It's Beyond Critically Important to Return to History
In the 1970s, Idi Amin led a brutal regime in Uganda. Among his many crimes was the expulsion of the nation’s Indian population, blaming them for the country’s economic woes and labeling them enemies of the state.
Over 60,000 Ugandan Asians, many of whom had lived there for generations, were given just 90 days to leave. They were stripped of their businesses, their homes, and in many cases, their lives.
Zohran Mamdani's family was among those who fled.
But that wasn’t the only horror Amin supported.
In 1976, Palestinian terrorists hijacked Air France Flight 139, landing it in Entebbe, Uganda. The hijackers held over 100 Israelis and Jewish passengers hostage. Amin offered them protection and supported their demands.
He allowed Uganda’s airport to become a terrorist safe haven.
When Israel launched a daring rescue mission, Operation Entebbe, they saved most of the hostages — but at a heavy cost, including the life of Yonatan Netanyahu, the mission’s commander.
It was one of the most heroic anti-terror operations in modern history. It revealed the true face of both terrorism and the leaders who enabled it — including Idi Amin.
Now imagine the bitter irony: Zohran Mamdani, who comes from a family which fled Idi Amin’s brutality and lived through this era of terror, now defends and aligns himself with the very ideology he was threatened by, an
ideology Israel has fought to defeat, and still does to this day.
Instead of condemning Hamas, Mamdani has minimized the horrific Oct. 7, 2023 massacre.
Adding insult to injury, he has seen fit to align align himself with the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks the destruction of the Jewish state, and has supported protests glorifying Hamas’s "resistance."
He doesn't mourn the victims of terror. He mourns for terrorists.
This is not just moral confusion. This is moral collapse.
It would be bad enough if Mamdani’s hypocrisy ended there — but it doesn’t. He has also turned his venom toward the United States itself. On our Independence Day itself, he has called America a "failed experiment," a country unworthy of admiration or loyalty.
This from a man whose family found refuge in the safety, prosperity, and freedom that only America could offer.
Mamdani Lacks Gratitude, Divides New York-
This writer's own grandparents were Holocaust survivors. They fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the United States after surviving Auschwitz. They rebuilt their lives from nothing, and most certainly did so with gratitude and dignity.
This writer's grandfather used to say he would never spit on the streets of America.
It would be wholly disrespectful to the land that gave him freedom.
America deserves reverence, not disdain.
The American nation is imperfect but extraordinary.
Those benefitting from its safety and freedom would do well not to undermine her.
Mamdani, now running for Mayor of New York City, as a Democrat, has seemingly made it his mission to attack American values.
He's traded in the identity of a grateful refugee for that of a radical ideologue.
President Donald Trump is correct in calling him out as a Communist, one bringing a dangerous drift to New York City’s leadership.
A slide toward socialism, radicalism, and sympathy for terrorist causes.
Rather than embracing the freedoms he was gifted, he is attempting to rewrite them into a manifesto of extremism. We must not allow our generosity to become our Achilles' heel.
Welcome the Oppressed but Demand Loyalty
America will continue to welcome the oppressed. But we must also expect loyalty to our democratic ideals. We must vet, with courage and conviction, those who come to these shores — and especially those who seek to lead within them. If someone escapes terror, only to later sympathize with the very ideologies they once fled, that is not courage.
It's betrayal.
Mamdani’s story could have been one of appreciation, hope, of resilience, of speaking out against hatred because he had lived through it!
Rather, Mamdani's amounts to a cautionary tale about what happens when history is forgotten, and gratitude is replaced by grievance, all of it wrapped up in a sense of entitlement.
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t speak for immigrants.
He doesn’t speak for Americans. And he certainly doesn’t speak for New Yorkers and those of us who still believe that freedom, truth, and democracy are worth defending.
We need leaders who remember why they came to America. We need voices who stand against terror — not those who justify it. And we need patriots who are willing to fight for the values that make this country and our allies — like Israel — so exceptional.
The time for pedestrian silence is over.
We must call out hypocrisy when we see it.
We must demand better from those who hold positions of power in our name and restrain him from holding office at all cost and MNYCGA (Make New York City Great Again!)
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