Amichai Chikli, Minister for the Diaspora of Israel, compared Zohran Mamdani, Mayor-elect of New York, with those responsible for the attack of September 11, 2001, and identified him as a “follower of Hamas.”
MADRID Nov. 5 (EUROPA PRESS).- The Minister for the Diaspora Israel, Amichai Chikliregretted this Wednesday the choice of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of the American city of New York and has warned that his victory in the elections will make “Jews have to flee” a Israel.
Thus, he has accused Mamdani of being a “Hamas supporter” and has urged all New York Jews to leave the country. “The city was once a global symbol of freedom but has now fallen into the hands of a Hamas follower, someone whose position is not far from that of the fanatical jihadists who killed three thousand people 25 years ago,” Chikli noted in relation to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
“This is a turning point for the city. The decision they (the voters) have made undermines what New York was founded on, a place that gave freedom and opportunity to countless Jewish refugees at the end of the 19th century, a place that became the largest Jewish community outside of Israel,” he stated in a statement released through social networks.
Chikli has stated that this change “has not happened suddenly.” “It already started with the anti-Zionist atmosphere on the campuses (…) and continues with the violent demonstrations by Hamas followers,” he lamented, while pointing to universities as places of “support” for the Palestinian armed group. “This came to a head this morning, when the last of the thugs supporting Hamas rapists was elected Mayor,” he said.
“New York will never be the same, especially for the Jewish community. The city is walking towards the abyss, the same abyss in which London already finds itself. I ask the Jews of New York to seriously reconsider moving to Israel,” he concluded.
For his part, the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, has clarified that Mamdani’s victory “will not stop” the Israelis. “His inflammatory words will not stop us. The Jewish community in New York and throughout the United States deserves security and respect. We will continue to strengthen our ties with the leaders of this community to guarantee our safety and well-being,” he noted.
Despite the criticism, Mamdani himself has assured that the city will continue to “fight anti-Semitism” under his leadership and has opted to “build a Mayor’s Office that is on the side of Jewish New Yorkers,” and not “one that hesitates in the fight against anti-Semitism.”
Likewise, he has promised a sense of “belonging” to the more than one million Muslims who reside in the city, also in the “centers of power.” “New York will no longer be a city where Islamophobia can be trafficked and elections won,” he said.