DNC again embraces Mamdani despite communist rhetoric, refusal to denounce 'globalize the intifada': ‘big tent'

The National Democratic Committee appeared to reaffirm its support for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a social media post on Wednesday despite the self-identified Democratic socialist's record of far-left, communist policies and extreme anti-Israel views. 

The DNC clipped and posted Mamdani telling "I've Had It" podcast hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan, "We welcome anyone to join this movement."

Mamdani was describing how he fostered a broad coalition of supporters to win the Democratic primary in June by welcoming anyone to join his movement, including those who voted for President Donald Trump. 

Social media quickly seized on the post, criticizing the party for embracing Mamdani and upholding a candidate who has called for communist policies such as "seizing the means of production" and repeatedly declined to denounce the slogan "global intifada," fueling claims of antisemitism from critics.

The post was taken as yet another bellwether of a Democratic Party that is continuing to swing to the far-left. Manhattan Institute fellow Daniel Di Martino said the DNC's post confirmed that the Democratic Party is "quickly finishing its transformation into a socialist party." 

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The post comes as several party leaders, including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., have yet to endorse his campaign with just two months until Election Day. 

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However, when asked in July about Republicans trying to anchor Mamdani to vulnerable Democrats, DNC Chair Ken Martin told Fox News Digital, "The Democratic Party is a big tent party. We have conservative Democrats, we have centrist Democrats, we have progressives and we have these leftists."

A Fox News Digital review discovered that Mamdani’s growing circle of influence is littered with activists who have espoused anti-Israel views and socialist principles. 

Some of Mamdani's more controversial stances include supporting seizing the means of production, taxing "whiter neighborhoods," and supporting a slate of anti-Israel positions such as supporting BDS, an acronym for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, and sanctions against Israel. 

At a Young Democratic Socialists of America conference in 2021, Mamdani urged attendees not to compromise on goals like "seizing the means of production."

"Right now, if we're talking about the cancellation of student debt, if we're talking about Medicare for all, you know, these are issues which have the groundswell of popular support across this country," Mamdani said in a video to conference goers. "But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS or whether it is the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment."

Additionally, a policy document titled "Stop the Squeeze on NYC Homeowners" from Mamdani’s mayoral campaign website claims that the city’s current property tax system disproportionately benefits wealthy, White homeowners, particularly in Manhattan and affluent areas of Brooklyn. 

To solve this, Mamdani's document proposes a policy to "shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods."

A resurfaced video this summer also revealed that the socialist candidate floated the "abolition of private property."

"My platform is that every single person should have housing, and I think, faced with these two options, the system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right? For what?" Mamdani asked in a resurfaced video that has been clipped and reposted across conservative social media.

Mamdani's support for communist ideals has also included proposing in a 2020 social media post to replace a statue of Christopher Columbus with Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two anarcho-communists executed in Massachusetts in 1927. 

Meanwhile, he has also faced criticism for claiming to be "Black or African American" on a college application. He has since confirmed this but defended the decision by citing his Ugandan heritage. 

Mamdani has also been heavily criticized for his statements and actions regarding Israel and Jews as he runs for mayor in a city with the highest Jewish population in the United States outside of Israel.

Despite repeated calls to condemn the phrase "globalize the intifada," which is interpreted as a call for violence against Jewish people, Mamdani has never done so. 

In an interview with "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker in June, Mamdani was asked to condemn the phrase three times but refused. He attempted to justify his position, saying, "My concern is, to start to walk down the line of language and making clear what language I believe is permissible or impermissible, takes me into a place similar to that of the president, who is looking to do those very kinds of things, putting people in jail for writing an op-ed, putting them in jail for protesting."

"Ultimately, it is not language that I use. It is language, I understand there are concerns about, and what I will do is showcase my vision for the city through my words and my actions," he said. 

In a June 2021 interview, Mamdani doubled down on his support for BDS, saying, "the ways in which we can marry our struggle to our day-to-day life and show our solidarity in that life, I think that's critical to winning this fight because it can't all be, as you've very well stated, just kind of exclusively considered a legislative battle. It has to be a society-wide battle."

In July, the organization Stop Antisemitism criticized Mamdani for posting a "sick" video mocking Jews celebrating Hanukkah to his X account last year. The video is originally from the Geeta Brothers Duet Group, a satirical and comedic duo who dressed themselves in stereotypical Jewish garb for the performance.

"Zohran Mamdani posts Indian men cosplaying Jews, spinning dreidels and lighting the menorah," Stop Antisemitism wrote in a statement on X.

"Our holidays and traditions are sacred and not for your comedic pleasure, Zohran Mamdani – this is sick," the group added, tagging the mayoral candidate.

Mamdani has also refused to acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state and was one of just five New York state lawmakers who refused to co-sponsor a Holocaust memorial resolution. 

In another resurfaced interview, Mamdani explained that the family he grew up in made him "open" to being a "radical" and suggesting that socialism needs to be rebranded.

"I think, honestly, growing up in the family that I grew up in, I was quite open to what would be considered being a radical from a very young age," Mamdani said on "The Far Left Show" in 2020. 

"I mean, from the beginning, my identities are already considered radical by a lot of mainstream American political thought. So, being a Muslim and being an immigrant, these are things that already kind of put you in the box of ‘other.’ And so it's not that far of a jump because whenever you ... stand up to speak up for the rights of others who share the same identity as you, then you're a radical, right? So, often people in this country are considered radicals if they stand up for Palestinian human rights."

Mahmood Mamdani, the Columbia University professor and mayoral hopeful's father, has a social media presence that is also littered with anti-Israel comments and praise for radical activists, a Fox News Digital review found.

Mamdani, 79, who Fox News Digital previously reported sits on the advisory council of an anti-Israel organization that supports boycotts and sanctions of Israel, has posted on his X account about Israel on multiple occasions, using terms like "settlers" and "colonialism."

"When all ranks of the Occupation, from the armed settler to the settler state, claim 'the right of self-defense', what language is left for those who defend themselves against the Occupation but the right to resist?" Mamdani posted online May 21, 2021, as Israel was involved in a violent conflict with Hamas.

Mamdani's father also sits on the advisory council of an anti-Israel organization that supports boycotts and sanctions of Israel, routinely accuses the Israeli government of committing "genocide" and has expressed sympathy for suicide bombers.

Mamdani's college newspaper articles also shed light on the candidate’s early views on a variety of topics, including his promotion of an anti-Israel boycott and concerns about "White privilege," a Fox News Digital review found.

Mamdani wrote 32 articles for the Bowdoin Orient during his four years studying at Maine’s prestigious Bowdoin College, from 2010 to 2014, including an article his senior year promoting an academic boycott of Israel.

He also faced ridicule for his comments at the Young Democratic Socialists of America conference, where he urged attendees not to compromise on goals like "seizing the means of production."

"Right now, if we're talking about the cancellation of student debt, if we're talking about Medicare for all, you know, these are issues which have the groundswell of popular support across this country," Mamdani says in a video to conference goers. 

"But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS or whether it is the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment."

Fox News Digital reached out to the DNC and Mamdani but did not immediately receive a response.