Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani fundraised for an notorious United Nations aid company with well-documented ties to Hamas over the weekend — drawing outrage from Republican North Nation Rep. Elise Stefanik.
Stefanik, who has mentioned she’ll run in subsequent 12 months’s gubernatorial election, additionally tore into Gov. Kathy Hochul over her help for the Democratic mayoral nominee Mamdani, as she denounced him as an “antisemite.”
“On the eve of all of the residing hostages held by Hamas terrorists lastly returning dwelling, @KathyHochul endorsed Antisemite Communist NYC Mayor candidate is elevating funds for a company that participated within the October seventh terrorist assaults and brutally held hostages captive,” Stefanik raged on X.
“Don’t let the pro-Hamas jihadis win and destroy NY! FIRE HOCHUL.”
Mamdani had proudly posted a picture of himself operating the “New York Metropolis Gaza 5K” to lift cash for the infamous UN Aid and Works Company for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Sunday.
The Huge Apple mayoral frontrunner billed UNRWA as a benevolent group that “delivers vital humanitarian help and companies to Palestinians in Gaza.”
Following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas assault towards Israel, a number of investigations discovered that a number of planners and members within the bloodbath had been on UNRWA’s payroll.
UNRWA later fired 10 of the 12 workers members allegedly concerned within the assaults after being knowledgeable by Israel. The opposite two had been confirmed to have died.
Over 10% of UNRWA’s major and senior schooling workers within the Gaza Strip had been members of Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in accordance with a November 2024 report from the Israeli non-profit group IMPACT-se.
In 2023, the US despatched $154 million to UNRWA. Trump shortly yanked funding for the group after roaring again into the White Home in January.
The Put up reached out to Mamdani’s marketing campaign for remark.
His spouse, in the meantime, on Sunday publicly mourned the dying of Palestinian influencer Saleh al-Jafarawi, who brazenly glorified the Oct. 7 assaults.
Jafarawi, who documented the warfare in Gaza, was confirmed killed Sunday in clashes between Hamas and different Palestinian factions, in accordance with stories.
“Beloved Jafarawi,” Rama Duwaji, an animator who married Mamdani in February, wrote on her Instagram story, together with 4 broken-heart emojis.
Mamdani’s touting his third time operating the “New York Metropolis Gaza 5K” got here hours earlier than Hamas launched the final of the 20 residing Israeli hostages it was holding in captivity.
Israel and Hamas entered a ceasefire on Friday afternoon of final week in a deal that was brokered partially by President Trump, which was a part of a broader peace settlement calling for the discharge of the hostages.
Stefanik has emerged as some of the ardent pro-Israel voices in Congress and a fierce critic of Mamdani, whom Hochul endorsed final month.
The congresswoman is gearing as much as problem Hochul for governor in the course of the 2026 midterm election cycle subsequent 12 months.
She additionally slammed the Democratic gov for not mentioning Trump in her assertion celebrating the hostages being launched.
Hochul, with out referring to Trump by title, mentioned she was grateful for his administration’s function in securing their return.
Others additionally shortly joined Stefanik in ripping Mamdani for selling UNRWA.
“UNRWA workers participated within the October 7 bloodbath and stored hostages hidden of their properties. That is the way you select to spend your time on the eve of their launch. I can’t say I’m shocked. What a shame,” Irit Mizrahi Tratt, former chair of the Trump47 Ladies’s Management Coalition, jabbed.
“Experiences verify that a number of @UNRWA workers took half within the October seventh bloodbath in Israel,” Todd Richman, of the group Democratic Majority for Israel, posted on X.
“The identical company supposedly devoted to ‘humanitarian help’ had workers concerned in terror. Its faculties promote the destruction of @Israel and Jews. Let that sink in if you happen to vote for this man @ZohranKMamdani operating and elevating cash for it!”
