Mamdani hosts Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil for Ramadan dinner at Gracie Mansion

NYC Mayor Dines with Accused Hamas Sympathizer

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted Mahmoud Khalil at Gracie Mansion this week for an Iftar dinner during Ramadan, drawing sharp criticism from the White House, pro-Israel advocates, and Jewish community leaders. Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year and became the early public face of the left’s opposition to Trump’s immigration enforcement push. The Trump admi…

NYC Mayor Has Hamas Sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil To Dinner, Big 3 Network Newscasts Ignore

NYC Mayor Has Hamas Sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil To Dinner, Big 3 Network Newscasts Ignore Suppose the Mayor of the largest city in the United States had invited an anti-Black or anti-LGBT activist, who had led protests on college campuses where the targets of those protests were harassed, prevented from attending class, and in some cases faced violence, to dinner at his home. You can imagine that the media would be on top of that story 24/7. But…

'CHURCH & STATE?': Mamdani Faces Fury Over Islam-Inspired Events At Gracie Mansion, City Hall

New York City’s democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is facing a fresh wave of backlash after posting a photo showing an iftar dinner inside Gracie Mansion with Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent anti-Israel activist the Trump administration previously sought to deport while labeling him a Hamas supporter. Mamdani shared the image Monday night on X, saying he and his wife hosted Khalil, along with Noor and their son, Deen, to “break our fast tog…

Mamdani having dinner with Mahmoud Khalil 'sent a signal': Joe Concha

Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani “sympathizes” with “the wrong side” in the aftermath of an attempted bombing in the city. Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim mayor, celebrated Ramadan with Mahmoud Khalil, an anti-Israel protester who was detained by federal immigration officers last year, on Sunday. The mayor’s dinner with Khalil was held a day after police stopped an attempted bombing near the …

The right’s Mamdani obsession

During Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims around the world fast from dawn to sunset and gather with family and neighbors each evening to break that fast, the American right is manufacturing outrage about Muslims in public life. Worse yet, they are turning it into a vehicle for increasingly explicit calls to push Muslims out of American society altogether.  What should have been a straightforward story about an anti-Muslim rally escalati…

When Campus Activism Becomes City Hall

For more than a decade, American universities have been undergoing an institutional transformation. The boundary between activism and governance has steadily eroded. Protest movements that once pressured institutions from the outside increasingly shape how those institutions operate from the inside. Administrators adopt the language of protest. Movement leaders gain symbolic legitimacy. Institutional spaces begin to mirror the politics of the lo…