Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani once made a vile pronouncement tying the NYPD with the Israeli military, a shocking video that resurfaced Tuesday reveals.
“We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF,” the Queens assemblyman said in 2023, referring to the Israel Defense Forces.
The comparison – which Mamdani made during a panel at the 2023 Democratic Socialists of America’s national convention, where he was the keynote speaker – drew white-hot criticism from many cops and Jewish New Yorkers, who called out the arguably antisemitic connotation.
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