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Mayor Zohran Mamdani in the City of New York followed up his misdirection over the attempted terror attack over the weekend by breaking bread with Hamas apologist Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil, a Palestinian green card holder with a Syrian passport, was a Columbia University grad student organizer of the anti-semitic Gaza camps at the school in response to the Oct 7 Hamas massacre in Israel. The Dept of State tried to pull his student visa and green card and deport him over alleged false claims made on his application, but activist judges put a stop to that, and now he's having iftar with the mayor and his wife at Gracie Mansion. Terrorize Jewish students on college campus? Defend blood thirsty Jew haters? No worries, the brand new mayor of New York will buy you dinner.
Khalil was an organizer of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which is a group "fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization." They say that they "stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South" and that their "intifada is an internationalist one." As for who they'd like to have join them, they say "we seek community and instruction from militants in the Global South, who have been on the frontlines in the fight against tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist world order." Mamdani was elected to govern the greatest city in Western civilization, but he'd be glad to see it crumble if that would better achieve his aims, which are the same as Khalil's.
With the way Mamdani feels about the counter-protesters who hurled bombs at conservative agitators on Saturday, there's good reason to believe that if they manage to skate out of charges, or if they just serve some time before being sprung, Mamdani will host them for iftar in the coming years. Those two men, ages 18 and 19, were arrested and charged with five counts by the Department of Justice.
Count one alleges that the two "knowingly attempted to provide 'material support or resources'... including personnel, to wit, themselves, and services to a foreign terrorist organization, to wit, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham ('ISIS')." ISIS is a designated foreign terrorist organization. After they were arrested, per the complaint, Balat wrote on a piece of paper that he "pledge[d] allegience [sic] to the Islamic State" and Kayumi stated, in substance and in part, that he was affiliated with ISIS.
Count two details charges for use of a weapon of mass destruction, saying that the two "knowingly used, threatened, and attempted to use, a weapon of mass destruction—namely, a destructive device... against persons and property within the United States..." Counts three, four, and five all stem from the first two and reference transportation of explosive materials, interstate transportation and receipt of explosives, and the unlawful possession of destructive devices.
When speaking about the barely thwarted terror attack, Mamdani complained about "white supremacy" and "anti-Islam hate." He barely touched on the men who are alleged to have made and threw the bombs at all, simply indicating that they were standing up against all the right things.
Libby