Zohran Mamdani (guest)

And part of that is because, especially as an American, thinking of the importance of a state which enshrines equal rights within it.

And

to make clear that my critiques of Israel are critiques that I would hold for any other state violating any one of these other international laws.

And the focus

that I and many other New Yorkers have had on the question specifically of Israel's violations of these international human rights is also in part because of our unique complicity as Americans in those violations.

You mean because of the American funding of the war in Gaza?

And prior to that, and the nature of sending, you know, $4 billion a year every year prior to this.

Mayor Adams ran in 2021 with a promise that he would retire in the Golan Heights.

Occupied.

He not only visited Israel, he met with settlement leaders and came back promising to increase cooperation with them.

I've said, and I continue to believe, that one need not visit Israel to stand up for Jewish New Yorkers.

And I've also said in the question of visiting countries outside of ours that my focus is going to be on New York City.

And

My belief, whether it be for Israel and Palestine or anywhere across the world, is the importance of equal rights as part of any future that we're fighting for.

And as you said, I am running to be the mayor of the city.

And I also know, to your point, that there are millions of New Yorkers, myself included, who care deeply about Israel and Palestine.

And...

My desire is to be a mayor who is both clear in my belief in universal human rights, the necessity of extending those beliefs of freedom and safety and justice and equality to all people, and that that must also include Palestinians, and that my job in leading the city is to embody that shared sense of humanity.

Yes.

I would say that that's correct.