Zohran Mamdani

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49.36.102.86: Mamdani and Zionism

{{Infobox politician|name=Zohran Mamdani|birth_date={{birth date and age|1991|10|18}}|birth_place=[[Kampala]], [[Uganda]]|political_orientation=[[Democratic socialism]]|political_party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]|image=Zohran Mamdani.jpg}}

'''Zohran Kwame Mamdani''' (born October 18, 1991) is an [[United States of America|Statesian]] politician who has served as the 36th district member of the New York State Assembly since 2021 and is the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] nominee for mayor of [[New York City]] in the 2025 election. A member of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] (DSA), Mamdani ran on a [[Progressivism|progressive]] platform of policies such as freezing rents and affordable housing, fast, free buses, no cost childcare and city-owned grocery stores.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Monica Moorehead|newspaper=[[Workers World]]|title=Zohran Mamdani’s victory: What we know and don’t know|date=2025-07-01|url=https://www.workers.org/2025/07/86566/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250704163541/https://www.workers.org/2025/07/86566/|archive-date=2025-07-04}}</ref> In the short term Mamdani's policies may alleviate the conditions of the [[proletariat]] in New York, however, due to the limits of bourgeois institutions Mamdani can achieve no lasting change and his progressive policies will be undone by future administrations.

== Early life ==
Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born on October 18, 1991 in Kampala, the capital and largest city of [[Republic of Uganda|Uganda]].<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Mona Davids|newspaper=Little Africa News|title=Ugandan-Born Zohran Mamdani Announces Candidacy for Mayor of New York City|date=2024-10-26|url=https://www.littleafricanews.com/zohran-mamdani-announces-candidacy-for-mayor-of-new-york-city/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250627171612/https://www.littleafricanews.com/zohran-mamdani-announces-candidacy-for-mayor-of-new-york-city/|archive-date=2025-06-27}}</ref> He is the only child of Indian-Ugandan post-colonial Marxist scholar [[Mahmood Mamdani]] and progressive filmmaker Mira Nair.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|title=Mahmood Mamdani education and career path: How Mamdani's father built a legacy of revolution through ideas and exile|date=2025-06-25|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/mahmood-mamdani-education-and-career-path-how-zohran-mamdanis-father-built-a-legacy-of-revolution-through-ideas-and-exile/articleshow/122064130.cms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250821213210/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/mahmood-mamdani-education-and-career-path-how-zohran-mamdanis-father-built-a-legacy-of-revolution-through-ideas-and-exile/articleshow/122064130.cms|archive-date=2025-08-21}}</ref> His father gave him the middle name Kwame after [[Kwame Nkrumah]], the first [[Republic of Ghana|Ghanaian]] President, which Zohran says has instilled in him the values of [[Pan-Africanism]].<ref name=":1" />

== Mayoral Platform ==

* '''Housing''': He plans to freeze rents for the over 2 million people who live in rent stabilized apartments. Additionally he plans to build affordable housing, crack down on bad landlords, end deed theft and fix the property tax system.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=Zohran for New York City|title=The Platform|url=https://www.zohranfornyc.com/platform|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250905182224/https://www.zohranfornyc.com/platform|archive-date=2025-09-05}}</ref>
* '''Affordability''': He plans to open low priced, city owned grocery stores as well make buses both faster and free. Mamdani also plans on introducing a range of child welfare benefits, including free childcare and baby baskets with essential supplies for newborns.<ref name=":0" />
* '''Labor''': Mamdani says he will support workers and unions in their fight for better wages and working conditions. Specifically, he plans to raise the minimum wage to $30 by 2030 as well as regulate delivery apps and protect delivery workers.<ref name=":0" />
* '''Budget''': To fund his policy plans, Mamdani plans to tax the wealthy by introducing a 2% on those earning more then $1 million a year and increasing corporate tax from 7.25% to 11.5%.
* '''Climate''': As Mayor Mamdani plans to lead a large decarbonization and climate resilience program citywide; building renewable housing and overseeing a climate prepareness program. In additions to infrastructure, Mamdani plans to renovate 500 public schools with renewable energy and HVAC upgrades.<ref name=":0" />
* '''Minority rights''': Mamdani says he will ensure immigrants are protected and remove [[United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement|ICE]] from the city. He will also make New York a LGBTQIA+ sanctuary city, protect reproductive rights as well as expand and protect gender-affirming care citywide.<ref name=":0" />

== Leniency With Zionism ==
Despite having become famous for his promise to stay in New York instead of flying off to Tel Aviv during the Democratic primary debates, Mamdani has since pivoted on his stances on "[[Israel]]". In a event with CEOs, he told that he would “discourage” use of ‘intifada’ after listening to Jewish leaders<ref>{{Web citation|author=Mark Chiusano|newspaper=[[Time Magazine|Time]]|year=2025|title= ‘A Politics of No Translation.’ Zohran Mamdani on His Unlikely Rise|quote=Few events got as much attention as the closed-door one with the CEOs, hosted by the Partnership for New York City, a nonprofit business leadership group. In a conference room floating above the city and stocked with a spread of cookies, fruit, and cheese, Mamdani was not swarmed for selfies upon entry, as he usually is these days. He did a fireside chat and Q and A, during which he was grilled about his thoughts on the “globalize the intifada” brouhaha.

To the CEOs, however, Mamdani said he would discourage the use of the phrase—a small but pointed evolution in language. In our interview, Mamdani frames the shift as the consequence of listening to New Yorkers, including Jewish leaders, as well as a rabbi who said the phrase evoked memories of bus bombings in Haifa. “The job of the mayor is to deliver for New Yorkers,” he says. “And it’s also to take care of New Yorkers.”}}</ref>, even though 'intifada' is merely Arabic for 'uprising' and not an [[antisemitic]] phrase, even so far as having been used in the Arabic translation of the Warsaw Ghetto '''Uprising''' exhibit in the U.S. Holocaust Museum. In an MSNBC interview with Al Sharpton, Mamdani talked about the "complexities of viewpoints" when referring to the [[Gazan genocide]]<ref>{{News citation|title=WHAT ARE YOU DOING, ZOHRAN!??|date=2025-09-09|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXVffXk2DuE}}</ref>.
== References ==
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[[Category:1991 births]]
[[Category:Members of the Democratic Party (United States)]]
[[Category:Members of the Democratic Socialists of America]]

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