Zohran Mamdani once said mayoral candidates should pledge to boycott Israel. Now that he's running, he's not so forthcom
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In 2020, Zohran Mamdani had clear expectations of the candidates in the 2021 New York City mayoral election: they should not only embrace the right to boycott Israel, they should join the boycott.
“Ask each one of them what they think about BDS,” he advised activists who were then getting ready for the 2021 mayoral race, referring to the movement to boycott, divest and sanction Israel.
“And not what they think about the right to engage in it, because people will try and conflate the two, and it’s not the same,” he said. That was an evasion, he told the 2020 Zoom event hosted by the Adalah Justice Project, a U.S.-based Palestinian advocacy group, and such evasions were “bullshit.”
Asked Thursday about the unearthed video, which streamed then on Facebook and Instagram, his campaign told the Forward that Mamdani “has been crystal clear from day one of this campaign that his focus is squarely on lowering the cost of living for working and middle-class New Yorkers and delivering a safer city for everyone.”
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