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Exclusive: Ina VernikovA New York City Republican Counselon told Fox News Digital that the voters in his heavy Jewish district are “frightening” about the possibility of socialist Zoharan Mamdani to become the next mayor.
,It is a person who wants to make Intifada global, “Vernikov told Fox News Digital.” We have not seen anything close to it in New York City. We have the largest Jewish population in the US, and I will tell you that Jews are telling me that they are going to flee the city of New York, and the Jews have contributed a lot to the city and this country, and the idea that they are now afraid of living here now, it is really unacceptable and unprecedented, it has never happened here. ,
Mamdani has been widely criticized for her anti -Israel posts Dating back during your college days, When he did justice for justice to his school students in the Palestine chapter. In recent weeks, Mammadani has been criticized, which has been criticized on an alleged frugality to condemn the phrase “intifada globally”. Now says He will not use and discourage others.
Mamdani’s father, Mahmood, has also faced an investigation on his previous writing and comments, including one. Social media post A potential “third ITFAM settled in Israel against colonialism”.
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New York City Mayoral candidate Zoharan Mamdani and New York City Council Inna Vernikov. (Getty/Fox News Digital)
Vernikov said, “There is a call for Intipada violence, we have noticed what happened during the two Intefadas, where people were murdered, innocent people lost their lives,” Vernikov said, “There is a lot of fear in the Jewish community if this man becomes a mayor.”
Vernikov, who is Jewish, told Fox News Digital people that they had spoken in their district, there are “Petridified” to become Mammadani’s mayor.
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Zoharan Mamdani, the candidate of New York City Mayor, briefly speaks with reporters as he leaves the Deirson Senate office building in Washington, DC on 16 July 2025 (Hot by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Image)
Many Jewish groups have surfaced Hardcore Against the candidature of Mamdani. A human rights Attorney Brook Goldstein told Fox News Digital earlier this month that “Zoharan Mamdani has made his political brand the same radical, hateful and anti-American ideology, his father, Mahmood Mamdani has spent decades promoting the decades-Jewish people and valid violence.”
Fox News reached Mamdani’s campaign for digital comment.
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Democratic mayoral candidate Zoharan Mamdani speaks in New York City Democratic Mayorl primary debate at NBC Studio on June 4, 2025. (Yuki Evmura-Pool/Getty Images)
Vernikov raised the issue with Democrats, who started supporting the case, which experts say The Democratic party can cause problems if he wins in November, and criticizes his excuse that “he is a Democratic candidate.”
“I am curious, I have a question,” Vernikov told Fox News Digital. “If this Democratic candidate will be like a KKK member or calls for the destruction of the black community, do you still know, it is as difficult as they are now, and I think there will be no answer, but when it comes to Jews, it is fine.”
“So it is really hypocritical, unacceptable and disgusting, and they are supporting him one by one. While Republican is fighting antisementism on behalf of Jewish Americans every day, Democrats are supporting an antisemite.”
