The daddy of socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani sits on an advisory council of an Israel-hating group that routinely accuses the Jewish state of committing “genocide” – and has expressed sympathy for suicide bombers.
Mahmood Mamdani, 79, is listed as one in every of 29 members of the London-based Gaza Tribunal’s advisory coverage council.
The group, based final 12 months, says its major purpose is “to awaken civil society to its duty and alternative to cease Israel’s genocide in Gaza.”
It additionally helps lots of the similar anti-Israel causes being pushed by the Queens assemblyman and mayoral frontrunner, together with the BDS motion, which urges “boycott, divestment and sanctions” towards Israel to push Palestinian causes.
The information that the elder Mamdani, a chaired professor of African historical past and colonialism at Columbia College, is a part of the Gaza Tribunal was first reported Saturday by Fox Information.
He has additionally come beneath fireplace on social media this week over a resurfaced e book excerpt, through which he expressed sympathy for the best way suicide bombers are considered.
“Suicide bombing must be understood as a characteristic of contemporary political violence moderately than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism,” the elder Mamdani wrote in his 2004 e book “Good Muslim, Dangerous Muslim: America, the Chilly Battle, and the Roots of Terror.”
“We have to acknowledge the suicide bomber, in the beginning, as a class of soldier,” he additionally wrote.
“The apple @ZohranKMamdani doesn’t fall removed from the tree,” quipped billionaire hedge fund titan Invoice Ackman on X Thursday.
Mahmood Mamdani couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
