Mamdani says he won’t use ‘globalize the intifada’ amid backlash | US news

According to reports, the Mayor of New York Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani said to business leaders in the city that he would not use the phrase “globalization of intifada ve and would not prevent others from doing so.

Mamdani, a democratic socialist who won the democratic candidacy last month, was under pressure to clarify his position on the statement that many of them saw as an call for violence against the Jews and previously refused to condemn.

The 33 -year -old child committed a commitment during a closed meeting with business managers organized by the New York City partnership, an effective business organ representing banks, law companies and companies. New York Times.

There are many managers Expressed alarm Mamdani’s anti -business and risk driving companies and the city’s rich York people think of the tax base.

However, the cautious defense of the expression has imposed accusations that he encouraged anti -Semitism. Previously told the US news show Meet the press The term is not the language I use ”but“ I don’t believe the role of the mayor is a police speech ”.

Mamdani announced that many of them were “globalized in the intifada” as an expression of support for the Palestinians. According to The Wall Street Journal, he said that the statement means protest against Israel’s Gaza occupation. Mamdani is also willing to deter him a particular language, but not the idea behind it.

During the mayor’s campaign, He explained the word The “Intifada” was used by the US Holocaust Monument Museum in translations in 1943 to describe a Jewish uprising against the Nazis in Warsaw.

At that time, he said to journalists: “I don’t be called to me as antisemit.”

Many New York business leaders, including JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon; Steve Schwartzman from Blackstone; Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan; Larry Fink from Blackrock; and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon did not attend the meeting.

“[Jamie Dimon] He had other commitments and could not participate .. New York Post.

Only days ago, Dimon made Mamdani in an event in Ireland and said to the mayor’s Mayor, “More Marxist than a socialist”.

Before claiming that Mamdani has pushed the same ideological porridge that does not mean anything in the real world ,, “And now you see that these democrats have fallen on them, ‘Well, it points to some real problems, affordable housing and grocery prices,’ ‘he said.

Mamdani’s target for business leaders at the meeting was not to do business from the city. Kathy Wylde, the President of the Business Group, described his attitude towards Mamdani as “protected” among his members.

“But he acknowledged that he was a smart man and a good communicator and that evidence would be in pudding.

New York Democrats, minority leader Hakeem Jeffries in the Assembly and Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer has not yet approved Mamdani for the mayor.

“The meaning of globalization of Intifada should be wrong and condemned, Sch said Schumer Times.

Mamdani faces two independent mayor candidates in the November election, with Mayor Eric Adams and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa.