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The father of New York City's mayoral frontrunner sits on a policy advisory council for the with an Israel-designated Hamas operative. Over the course of two days in September 2024, the Gaza Tribunal was established in London with over 100 participants present, including Mamdani's father, Mahmood Mamdani, 79, who is a professor at Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology. The Tribunal was established to address what the group calls a "total failure of the organised international community to implement international law" amid a "genocide" in Gaza in the wake of the Gaza War. "The aim of the Gaza Tribunal is to awaken civil society to its responsibility and opportunity to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza," the Gaza Tribunal stated on its website. However, the group lacks any power to try legal cases and any of its findings or work by the Tribunal would simply be chalked up as being "symbolic." While the Tribunal carries no weight; it's existence is problematic because many of its ranking members and affiliates have been tied to Hamas. For instance, Mamdani serves on the Tribunal's Policy Council Member with Ramy Abdo , a Palestinian financier who was deemed as one of Hamas' main operatives in Europe in 2013, according to the Abdo is the founder of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a group that Israel claims, "consistently spreads blood libels and conspiracy theories about" the Jewish state. Euro-Med Monitor Chairman of Board of Trustees Richard Falk, who is also the president and one of the founding members of the Gaza Tribunal, was appointed to serve as the United Nations special envoy to Palestine but was barred from entering because of his "hostile position toward" Israel. In his article “Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust," Falk compared Israel to Nazi Germany's holocaust on the Jews. Meanwhile, Mamdani's father said the Nazis got the idea of the holocaust from America, the In just the past week, the Gaza Tribunal gathered in Istanbul from October 23-26 which included a slew of speakers and participants tied to Hamas, including Sami Al-Arian. In 2006, Al-Arian was convicted for conspiracy to provide services to U.S.-designated terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Another participant at the conference was Raji Sourani, who spent three years in Israeli prison for his involvement in the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). It's no secret that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani is a characterizing himself as an "anti-Zionist." The New York City mayor hopeful that he'd arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever stepped foot in New York City, and he founded an anti-Israel group in college known as Students for Justice in Palestine. If elected mayor, Mamdani would become the first Muslim and youngest mayor in a century. The 34-year-old emigrated to the United States from Uganda when he was seven-years-old. In a 2013 interview with the Hindustan Times Mamdani's mother Mira Nair, a renowned Indian filmmaker, was highly dismissive of her then-21-year-old son's American identity. "He is a total desi," Mira Nair said of Mamdani. "Completely. We are not firangs at all. He is very much us. He is not an Uhmericcan (American) at all. He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian." According to Mehek Cooke, an Indian born GOP commentator firang is used as a slur for foreigners. "When Mamdani’s mother says her son was ‘never a firang and only desi,’ it’s a rejection of America," Cooke . "It’s ungrateful, disrespectful, and frankly repulsive to live in this country since age seven, receive every freedom, education, and opportunity America offers, and still deny being American."
