New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during the National Action Network National Convention in New York City, U.S., Apr. 3, 2025. At right: Demonstrators attend an "emergency rally for Gaza" outside of the Israeli Consulate in New York City, New York on Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Supporters of both Palestine and Israel clashed at the event as Israel remains at war with Hamas. (REUTERS/Jeenah Moon and Jennifer Mitchell for Fox News Digital)
The report stated that Mamdani joined protests against Israel just days after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack that killed 1,200 Israelis.
According to Canary Mission, Mamdani "didn’t stumble into anti-Israel activism—he was raised in it." The report details how Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, to Muslim-Indian parents Mahmood Mamdani and Mira Nair, both of whom are also outspoken anti-Israel activists.
Mamdani’s father, Mahmood, is a professor of anthropology at New York’s Columbia University, which has been at the epicenter of the pro-Palestine protests in the U.S. Canary Mission calls Mahmood a "Marxist" professor who is "known for his anti-Israel views and obsession with ‘colonialism.’"
According to the report, in a recent course titled "Settlers and Natives," Mahmood promoted the concept of "the necessity of violence in anticolonial struggle."
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Zohran Mamdani, shaking hands with rival and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on stage at a debate. (Getty)
Meanwhile, Mamdani’s mother, Mira Nair, is a filmmaker who just this year signed onto an open letter calling on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to forbid Israeli actress Gal Gadot from attending the Oscars, according to the report.
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Both of Mamdani’s parents are supportive of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, which encourages economic pressure against the state of Israel for its alleged "genocide" against Palestinians.
Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani's office for comment but received no response by publication deadline.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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