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Controversy surrounding the Columbia College father of socialist New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani resurfaced on social media as a video of him claiming that Adolf Hitler was impressed by President Abraham Lincoln went viral main as much as Tuesday’s election.
“Zohran Mamdani’s father: America is the basis of all evil and was the inspiration for the nazis,” web video editor MAZE posted on X over the weekend together with a clip of Mahmood Mamdani that was seen over 10 million occasions.
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Mira Nair, New York mayoral candidate, state Rep. Zohran Mamdani, Rama Duwaji and Mahmood Mamdani have a good time on stage throughout an election night time gathering at The Greats of Craft LIC on June 24, 2025, within the Lengthy Island Metropolis neighborhood of the Queens borough in New York Metropolis. (Getty)
“Hitler discovered genocide from Abraham Lincoln. I am positive Zohran loves America although. Good job NYC.”
The clip stems from a 2022 panel dialogue hosted by the Asia Society the place Mahmood Mamdani asserted that America was the “genesis of what we name settler-colonialism” world wide, Fox Information Digital reported in July.
“With the Civil Struggle, Abraham Lincoln generalized the answer of reservations, they herded American Indians into separate territories,” Mamdani, Columbia’s Herbert Lehman professor of presidency, mentioned. “For the Nazis, this was the inspiration — Hitler realized two issues: one, that genocide is doable. It’s potential to do genocide, that is what Hitler realized. Second factor Hitler realized, is that you do not have to have a typical citizenship.”
The video obtained robust pushback from conservatives on social media.
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New York Metropolis Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani accepts an endorsement from the United Bodegas of America within the Bronx, New York Metropolis, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (Fox Information Digital/Deirdre Heavey)
“This is among the most insane issues I’ve ever heard, and I say that as somebody who used to work on the Younger Turks,” political commentator Dave Rubin posted on X.
“Like father like son,” Fox Information anchor Laura Ingraham posted on X.
“What a joke — why are we importing individuals who hate America?” Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis posted on X.
Fox Information Digital reached out to Mamdani’s father and the Mamdani marketing campaign for remark.
Many have criticized the youthful Mamdani for among the views shared by his father over time, together with quotes from a guide the professor wrote and devoted to “Zohran and his mates.”
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New York mayoral candidate, state Rep. Zohran Mamdani, stands together with his mom Mira Nair, and father, Mahmood Mamdani, as they have a good time throughout an election night time gathering at The Greats of Craft LIC on June 24, 2025, within the Lengthy Island Metropolis neighborhood of the Queens borough in New York Metropolis. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photographs)
“Suicide bombing must be understood as a function of contemporary political violence slightly than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism,” the elder Mamdani wrote in his 2004 guide Good Muslim, Unhealthy Muslim: America, the Chilly Struggle, and the Roots of Terror, Fox Information Digital beforehand reported.
“We have to acknowledge the suicide bomber, at first, as a class of soldier.”
Moreover, Mahmood Mamdani sits on the advisory council of an anti-Israel group, the Gaza Tribunal, that helps boycotts and sanctions of Israel and routinely accuses the Israeli authorities of committing “genocide”
The Gaza Tribunal’s founder and members have deep ties to anti-Israel actions, with at the very least one being deported from the USA resulting from terror ties.
“He’s his personal particular person,” Mahmood Mamdani advised The New York Occasions in an interview earlier this 12 months headlined, “The Mother and father Who Helped Form Zohran Mamdani’s Politics.”
Mahmood Mamdani added, “Now, in fact, what we do as his dad and mom is a part of the surroundings during which he grew up, and he couldn’t assist however interact with it. That doesn’t imply something is mirrored again on us.”
“I don’t agree!” Nair interjected within the interview. “In fact the world we stay in, and what we write and movie and take into consideration, is the world that Zohran has very a lot absorbed.”
In a 2020 interview, Mamdani instructed in his personal phrases that he was influenced politically by his dad and mom,” Fox Information Digital reported earlier this 12 months.
“I believe, truthfully, rising up within the household that I grew up in, I used to be fairly open to what could be thought of being a radical from a really younger age,” Mamdani mentioned on The Far Left Present.
“I imply, from the start, my identities are already thought of radical by plenty of mainstream American political thought. So being a Muslim, being an immigrant, these are issues that already form of put you within the field of ‘different.’ And so it is not that far of a soar as a result of everytime you… stand as much as communicate up for the rights of others who share the identical id as you, then you definately’re a radical, proper? So usually folks on this nation are thought of radicals in the event that they get up for Palestinian human rights.”
