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In 2025, Mamdani declined to sign on to the annual NY Assembly resolution celebrating the anniversary of [[Founding of Israel|Israel’s founding]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Mahoney |first=Bill |date=2025-05-16 |title=New York City mayoral contender didn't back measures condemning Holocaust, supporting Israel |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/new-york-city-mayoral-contender-israel-condemning-holocaust-00353123 |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=Politico |language=en}}</ref> Mamdani's campaign spokesperson Andrew Epstein said Mamdani opposed the measure because it contained the wording that Israel "continues to strive for peace with security and dignity for itself, its neighbors and throughout the world in order to fulfill the prophecy of becoming a light unto the nations", which Epstein said "is belied by the conduct of the right-wing government over the past 18 months".<ref name=":6" /> His decision drew criticism from NY Assembly member [[Sam Berger (New York politician)|Sam Berger]], who criticized Mamdani's condemnation of Israel after the 2023 [[October 7 attacks]] during the Gaza war.<ref name=":6" /> In response to the criticism, Mamdani stated that he abhorred antisemitism and that he believed in a right for Israel to exist.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Mays |first=Jeffery C. |date=2025-05-19 |title=Israel and Antisemitism Loom Large as Issues in the N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/nyregion/israel-gaza-antisemitism-mayor-nyc.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=http://archive.today/QF2QK |archive-date=2025-05-19 |access-date=2025-06-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He has stated that Israel has a [[right to exist]] as a state with equal rights.<ref name="a058">{{cite web |last=Dovere |first=Edward-Isaac |date=2025-06-03 |title=Andrew Cuomo campaigns for New York’s redemption – and his own |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/andrew-cuomo-new-york-mayor-comeback |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=CNN}}</ref> Mamdani voted in favor of the 2025 [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] remembrance resolution.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kornbluh |first=Jacob |date=2025-05-16 |title=Zohran Mamdani acknowledges 'pain and confusion' over his decision not to co-sponsor Holocaust resolution this year |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/720769/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-holocaust-israel/ |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref>
In 2025, Mamdani declined to sign on to the annual NY Assembly resolution celebrating the anniversary of [[Founding of Israel|Israel’s founding]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Mahoney |first=Bill |date=2025-05-16 |title=New York City mayoral contender didn't back measures condemning Holocaust, supporting Israel |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/new-york-city-mayoral-contender-israel-condemning-holocaust-00353123 |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=Politico |language=en}}</ref> Mamdani's campaign spokesperson Andrew Epstein said Mamdani opposed the measure because it contained the wording that Israel "continues to strive for peace with security and dignity for itself, its neighbors and throughout the world in order to fulfill the prophecy of becoming a light unto the nations", which Epstein said "is belied by the conduct of the right-wing government over the past 18 months".<ref name=":6" /> His decision drew criticism from NY Assembly member [[Sam Berger (New York politician)|Sam Berger]], who criticized Mamdani's condemnation of Israel after the 2023 [[October 7 attacks]] during the Gaza war.<ref name=":6" /> In response to the criticism, Mamdani stated that he abhorred antisemitism and that he believed in a right for Israel to exist.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Mays |first=Jeffery C. |date=2025-05-19 |title=Israel and Antisemitism Loom Large as Issues in the N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/nyregion/israel-gaza-antisemitism-mayor-nyc.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=http://archive.today/QF2QK |archive-date=2025-05-19 |access-date=2025-06-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He has stated that Israel has a [[right to exist]] as a state with equal rights.<ref name="a058">{{cite web |last=Dovere |first=Edward-Isaac |date=2025-06-03 |title=Andrew Cuomo campaigns for New York’s redemption – and his own |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/andrew-cuomo-new-york-mayor-comeback |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=CNN}}</ref> Mamdani voted in favor of the 2025 [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] remembrance resolution.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kornbluh |first=Jacob |date=2025-05-16 |title=Zohran Mamdani acknowledges 'pain and confusion' over his decision not to co-sponsor Holocaust resolution this year |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/720769/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-holocaust-israel/ |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref>

=== Hindus ===
In 2020, Mamdani wrote a letter to Mayor [[Eric Adams|Adams]] opposing a carnival float celebrating the [[Ram Mandir]], describing it as divisive and insensitive. He also participated in a protest in [[Times Square]] against the construction of the temple in [[Ayodhya]], where demonstrators allegedly used inflammatory language toward [[Anti-Hindu sentiment|Hindus]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-15 |title=Planned float in NYC's India Day Parade criticized for being anti-Muslim |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/india-day-parade-ram-temple-float-rcna166777 |access-date=2025-06-08 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Stack |first=Liam |last2=Bayya |first2=Anusha |date=2024-08-15 |title=Float Planned for N.Y.C. India Day Parade Is Condemned as Anti-Muslim |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/nyregion/india-day-parade-ram-temple.html |access-date=2025-06-08 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-05-17 |title=Did NYC mayor candidate, Mira Nair's son Zohran Mamdani, slam Hindus in viral video? |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/did-nyc-mayor-candidate-mira-nairs-son-zohran-mamdani-slam-hindus-in-viral-video/articleshow/121236977.cms |access-date=2025-06-08 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=At New York's Times Square, Both Celebrations of and Protests Against Ram Mandir |url=https://thewire.in/communalism/new-york-times-square-ram-mandir |access-date=2025-06-08 |website=The Wire |language=en}}</ref>

In 2025, during a public forum, Mamdani said he would not share a stage with [[Indian Prime Minister]] [[Narendra Modi]], comparing him to [[Israeli Prime Minister]] [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] and calling him a war criminal in reference to allegations related to the 2002 Gujarat riots, for which Modi has been cleared by Indian courts.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-04-10 |title=India Gujarat Chief Minister Modi cleared in riots case |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-17664751 |access-date=2025-06-07 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-01-15 |title=US court dismisses lawsuit against India's Narendra Modi |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30826044 |access-date=2025-06-07 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> These activities drew criticism from [[Indian Americans|Indian-American]] political and community leaders. Assembly member [[Jenifer Rajkumar]] accused Mamdani of using “divisive rhetoric,” stating that Hindu voters “want our leaders to build bridges—not burn them.” [[Sikhs|Sikh]] community leader and [[human rights lawyer]] Jaspreet Singh also alleged that Mamdani had “amplified anti-Hindu rhetoric” and “pitted Muslims and Hindus against each other.”<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-27 |title=Mira Nair's son, running for NYC mayor post, accused of communal rhetoric |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/mira-nairs-son-contesting-to-be-nyc-mayor-accused-of-hindu-hatred-pm-modi-hindus-muslims-indian-origin-leaders-in-america-2731176-2025-05-27 |access-date=2025-06-06 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref>


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Zohran Mamdani
Mamdani in 2025
Member of the New York State Assembly
from the 36th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 1, 2021
Preceded byAravella Simotas
Personal details
Born
Zohran Kwame Mamdani

(1991-10-18) October 18, 1991 (age 33)[1][2]
Kampala, Uganda
CitizenshipUnited States
Political partyDemocratic
Other political
affiliations		Democratic Socialists of America
Spouse
Rama Duwaji
​
(m. 2025)​
Parents
EducationBowdoin College (BA)
Signature
WebsiteMayoral campaign website
Assembly campaign website
State Assembly website

Zohran Kwame Mamdani[a] (born October 18, 1991) is an American activist and politician. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, he has represented New York's 36th State Assembly district in Queens since 2021.

Mamdani is a candidate in the Democratic primary for the 2025 New York City mayoral election. His campaign platform includes support for free city buses, a rent freeze for rent-stabilized housing, and city-owned grocery stores.

Early life and education

Zohran Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda.[4] His parents are Mahmood Mamdani, an Indian-born Ugandan Marxist scholar[5] and colonialism and postcolonial studies professor at Columbia University, and Mira Nair, an Indian-American filmmaker.[6][7][8] He was given the middle name Kwame by his father after Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister of Ghana.[8][9]

Mamdani and his family moved to Cape Town, South Africa, when he was five years old. He attended St. George’s Grammar School there while his father worked at the University of Cape Town.[9] The family moved to New York City when Mamdani was seven. He graduated from the Bank Street School for Children, and later from the Bronx High School of Science.[10] Mamdani attended Bowdoin College, where he co-founded the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. He graduated in 2014 with a bachelor's degree in Africana Studies.[11][12]

Career

Mamdani worked as a foreclosure prevention counselor before running for office.[5]

Early career in politics

After leading student organizing campaigns, Mamdani became involved in politics. In 2015, he volunteered for Ali Najmi’s unsuccessful campaign in the 2015 special election of New York City's 23rd City Council district.[8][13] In 2017, he joined the Democratic Socialists of America, and worked for the unsuccessful campaign of New York City Council candidate Khader El-Yateem, a Palestinian Lutheran minister and democratic socialist running in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.[8] Mamdani was the campaign manager for Ross Barkan's unsuccessful bid for New York State Senate in 2018. He also worked as a field organizer for democratic socialist Tiffany Cabán's unsuccessful 2019 campaign for Queens County District Attorney.[8][14]

New York State Assembly (2020-present)

Mamdani speaking at a DSA 101 meeting at the Church of the Village in New York City, (November 11th, 2024)
Mamdani at the Resist Fascism Rally in Bryant Park (October 27, 2024)

In October 2019, Mamdani announced his campaign for New York State Assembly in the 36th district, which encompasses Astoria and Long Island City in Queens, New York.[15][16] He was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America,[17] and ran on housing reform, police and prison reform, and public ownership of utilities.[15] Mamdani's June 2020 primary victory over four-term Democratic incumbent Aravella Simotas took almost a month to call,[18] and he won the general election with no Republican opposition in November 2020.[19] Mamdani was re-elected with no opposition in 2022[20] and 2024.[21]

Mamdani is a member of Democratic Socialists of America's eight-member "Socialists in Office" bloc, and a member of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York.[8][22] His Assembly district includes a section of Astoria, which has a significant population of Muslim and Arab voters and is also the center of the socialist movement in New York City.[23]

As of January 2025,, Mamdani was a member of the following Assembly committees:

  • Committee on Aging
  • Committee on Cities
  • Committee on Election Law
  • Committee on Energy
  • Committee on Real Property Taxation
  • Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus
  • Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force
  • Asian Pacific American Task Force
  • Task Force on New Americans[24]

As of May 2025, Mamdani had been the primary sponsor of 20 bills in the Assembly, three of which became law, and the co-sponsor of 238 bills.[25]

2025 New York City mayoral primary

Main articles: 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary and 2025 New York City mayoral election

On October 23, 2024, Mamdani announced that he would enter the race for New York City mayor in 2025.[26] His platform includes support for free city buses and a rent freeze in rent-stabilized housing.[27] Mamdani also wants the city government to operate five grocery stores – one in each borough – to drive down grocery prices.[28]

If elected, Mamdani would be the first Muslim mayor of New York City.[29]

Political and policy views

Mamdani started to consider himself a democratic socialist following the 2016 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders.[14] He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the United States.[23][28]

Childcare and education

Mamdani supports creating a universal pre-kindergarten childcare system.[30][31][32] He has proposed giving all new families in New York City "baby baskets" containing baby products such as diapers and nursing supplies.[33] Mamdani introduced a bill to eliminate New York University's and Columbia University's state property tax exemption and direct those funds towards underfunded public universities.[34]

Crime

Mamdani believes that increasing policing and incarceration does little to prevent harm and that "dignified work, economic stability, and well-resourced neighborhoods" better create public safety.[35] Mamdani has advocated for a more community-based approach to reducing crime, focusing on homeless outreach and anti-violence programs. He believes there is an over-reliance on the police to fix all of society's problems, stating "Police have a critical role to play, but right now we are relying on them to deal with the failures of the social safety net of reliance that is preventing them from doing their actual jobs."[36] He has proposed the creation of a department of community safety with the goal of expanding mental health outreach.[28]

Economic issues

Mamdani has advocated for capping rent increases, strengthening tenant protections, and creating a Social Housing Development Agency that would build publicly-owned affordable housing.[37] Mamdani supports raising the minimum wage in New York City to $30 per hour by 2030.[38]

Mamdani supports an income tax increase on the top one percent of New York income earners to raise $20 billion to fund tuition-free CUNY and SUNY schools, statewide universal childcare, a subway fare freeze, free MTA buses, and tenant protections.[6]

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Mamdani supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. He describes Israel's actions during the Gaza war as genocide.[39]

Early in 2023, Mamdani introduced a bill called the "Not on our dime!: Ending New York Funding of Israeli Settler Violence Act" which would prohibit registered charities from donating to organizations that support illegal Israeli settlers.[40][23] In November 2023, Mamdani joined Cynthia Nixon in a five-day hunger strike outside of Washington, D.C. in support of an immediate ceasefire and in opposition to President Biden's support of the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.[41][42][43] In 2024, he held an iftar for a ceasefire in Gaza during Ramadan.[44]

In 2025, Mamdani declined to sign on to the annual NY Assembly resolution celebrating the anniversary of Israel’s founding.[45] Mamdani's campaign spokesperson Andrew Epstein said Mamdani opposed the measure because it contained the wording that Israel "continues to strive for peace with security and dignity for itself, its neighbors and throughout the world in order to fulfill the prophecy of becoming a light unto the nations", which Epstein said "is belied by the conduct of the right-wing government over the past 18 months".[45] His decision drew criticism from NY Assembly member Sam Berger, who criticized Mamdani's condemnation of Israel after the 2023 October 7 attacks during the Gaza war.[45] In response to the criticism, Mamdani stated that he abhorred antisemitism and that he believed in a right for Israel to exist.[39] He has stated that Israel has a right to exist as a state with equal rights.[46] Mamdani voted in favor of the 2025 Holocaust remembrance resolution.[47]

Social issues

Mandani supported Proposal 1, a 2024 amendment to the Constitution of New York that made it unconstitutional to engage in discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), pregnancy and pregnancy related outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy.[48][49][50]

In February 2025, Mamdani appeared at a rally in Union Square in Manhattan to protest an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that threatened to "withhold federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming treatments to trans youth".[51][52]

Transportation

Mamdani supports permanently eliminating bus fares.[53] He advocated for an MTA bus fare-free pilot program,[54][55] which was launched on the Q4, B60, Bx18, M116 and S46/96 routes starting in September 2023.[56][57] The program saw a 30 percent increase in ridership on weekdays, which was predominantly from individuals earning less than $28,000 a year.[58] Across the five routes made free, assaults on bus operators dropped by 38.9 percent.[58] The fare-free program ended in August 2024 after state lawmakers did not reauthorize it.[59][60] In response Mamdani said that "the MTA was opposed to this program … because they were saying that now is not the time to create any kind of confusion around fare collection.”[54][61] Mamdani estimates that it would cost New York City approximately $650 million per year to eliminate bus fares.[62]

In December 2022, Mamdani introduced a series of bills for the 2023 session called "Fix the MTA". He proposed free bus travel over the next four years across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and then Manhattan and Staten Island.[63] The Formula Three Act would fill the $2.5 billion dollar shortfall of the MTA with another plank freezing fares at $2.75. Another plank would have set aside further money for more frequency such as, six minute headways for trains and for the hundred most used bus-routes, then using any additional money towards increasing service by 20%.[64]

In 2023, Mamdani co-introduced a bill that would enact a weight-based vehicle-registration fee to dissuade people from owning heavier vehicles in an effort to make streets safer.[65]

Mamdani has been a vocal supporter of congestion pricing and drafted a bill with New York state senator Michael Gianaris titled "Get Congestion Pricing Right" to increase bus service frequency and increase the number of fare-free buses.[66]

Personal life

In 2018, Mamdani was naturalized as an American citizen.[67] He is a Shia Muslim with Hindu Punjabi heritage on his mother's side.[11][68] He married Syrian artist Rama Duwaji in early 2025.[69] As of 2025, the two live in an apartment in Astoria.[8]

Mamdani is a fan of hip-hop music.[13] In 2019, he released the single "Nani" under the stage name Mr. Cardamom.[70] Cookbook author and actress Madhur Jaffrey is featured in the single's music video.[71]

See also

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Notes

  1. ^ /zəˈrɑːn məmˈdɑːni/ zə-RAHN məm-DAH-nee;[3]

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New York State Assembly
Preceded by Member of the New York State Assembly
from the 36th district
2021–present 		Incumbent
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