Senator Bernie Sanders joins the NYC mayor to promote progressive candidates in final day of the campaign
JTA — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday night described the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as “monsters,” accusing the organization of spending “millions in dark money” to “turn us against one and other” and of fearing democracy and an “end to genocide and Netanyahu’s wars.”
Mamdani made his remarks at a rally headlined by Sen. Bernie Sanders at Kings Theater in Brooklyn ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primaries for progressive congressional candidates. He called on the crowd to help elect Jewish former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, State Assembly member Claire Valdez and former Columbia encampment organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier.
In a fiery 30-minute speech, Mamdani took aim not just at AIPAC but also Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his handling of the war in Gaza. He claimed that “The monsters that we are up against, they take many different forms,” and then singled out AIPAC.
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