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Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”
Zohran Mamdani ran for office promising New Yorkers free everything. And then he asked them to give him $4 million to fund his transition team. In a fundraising video, Mamdani claimed that he only had $1 million to keep paying his “incredible team” for the next 50 days.
He also had to “vet the 50,000 resumes we’ve received” for that incredible team.
Now we know where those millions for Mamdani’s “incredible team” are actually going.
Mamdani has brought on 400 people to his transition team across 17 committees including a committee on community organizing, on worker justice, and on immigrant justice. Despite the claims that the Muslim socialist needed millions of dollars to go through tens of thousands of resumes, the ‘team’ is mostly drawn from his political allies in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Islamists and other people who were already involved in his campaign.
The Mamdani transition team has a disproportionate number of Arabs and Muslims on it.
For example, the Committee on Arts and Culture includes 5 people from the Muslim world, the Committee on Community Organizing features 6 people from the Muslim world, the Committee on Community Safety has 3 , the Committee on Government Operations has 4, the Committee on Immigrant Justice has 8, the Committee on Legal Affairs has 6, and the Committee on Small Businesses has 4.
And the transition team includes some of the most extreme figures in New York City politics.
During his campaign, Zohran Mamdani had lied and claimed that, despite his past statements calling for the defunding of the police, he was no longer interested in police defunding.
But Mamdani’s ‘public safety’ committee will include Alex Vitale, the author of ‘The End of Policing’ who had called for eliminating the police, legalizing many crimes and using social services to deal with other offenses. Vitale had claimed that “police are violence workers”, described police as “the natural enemy of the working class” and urged that “if you don’t want racism and violence, don’t get the police involved.”
Unsurprisingly, for the transition team of a politician whose signature issue was validating Islamic violence and hatred against Jews through moral inversion, Mamdani’s transition team stands out for the sheer number of members who hate Jews.
That includes Hassaan Chaudhary, a fellow Indian Muslim who headed up Muslim outreach for Mamdani, who had praised Iranian dictator Ahmadinejad for his call to eliminate Israel, and used “Jew” as an insult. Also on the Mamdani transition team is ousted Women’s March leader Tamika Mallory, who had celebrated Farrakhan, and accused Jews of being behind slavery.
Mamdani’s legal committee includes Tahanie Aboushi, a BDS supporter, close friend of Linda Sarsour, and ‘Palestinian’ ‘civil rights’ lawyer whose father was sentenced to 22 years in prison. As Middle East Forum noted, she was involved in an organization that a Hamas front group tried to direct funds to.
Also on the legal committee is Baher Azmy of the Communist founded Center for Constitutional Rights who represented various ‘war on terror’ detainees and is one of the lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a foreign national who served as a key figure in the campus terrorist protests with a stated mission of “the total eradication of western civilization”.
Another member of the legal committee is Ramzi Kassem who had claimed that 9/11 was due to the “resentment these terrorists felt towards the United States” as a result of “our country’s policies” and that “the legacy of 9/11 ought to be recounted primarily through the stories of Muslims the world over who have largely paid the price of American power and prosperity.”
Kassem’s clients included Ahmed al-Darbi, an Al Qaeda terrorist and the brother-in-law of one of the hijackers who flew a plane into the Pentagon, and who was himself a key figure in the bombing of an oil tanker.
“Terrorism is but one of many reactions to oppression and dispossession and not their cause,” Kassem had argued.
While at Columbia University, Kassem co-founded Turath, an association of Muslim students, and then Qanun at Columbia Law. A fellow student described these hateful groups as having brought “under the guidance of Mr. Kassem… speakers to this campus that support violence against American and Israeli civilians… defended the genocidal program of Hamas.”
Also on the legal committee is Afaf Nasher, the executive director of CAIR’s New York chapter. CAIR’s founder had celebrated Oct 7.
Hassan Naveed, another member of Mamdani’s transition team, had been fired by the Adams administration from his former role of heading up the New York City’s Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes over the rise of hate crimes during his tenure, who sued claiming that he was fired because of ‘Islamophobia’. According to Naveed, who sued the city for $1 million (and under Mamdani is likely to get it, at taxpayer expense), Mayor Eric Adams had engaged in “discriminatory conduct against Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians and those perceived to be affiliated with these identities” by comparing pro-Hamas rallies to KKK rallies.
The culture committee of the transition team includes Suroosh Alvi, a Canadian ‘journalist’ with Vice, who interviewed Hamas figures, and promoted false claims of ‘genocide’.
On Oct 7, as Hamas was murdering Jews, Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele, of the Malcolm X Grassroots projects, tweeted ‘solidarity’ for Gaza. He’s a member of the transition team.
Also joining the Mamdani transition team is Waleed Shahid, a Bernie Sanders and AOC ally, who claimed that Muslims had been “politically silenced or scared to organize or protest the ‘wars on terror'” and has battled to stop Israel’s campaign against Hamas. Shaheed’s wife, Emily Mayer, heads If Not Now, an anti-Israel BDS hate group that targets Jewish groups.
Other members of the transition team include Christine Marinoni, the girlfriend of Hollywood actress Cynthia Nixon, both of whom engage in anti-Israel activism, supposedly at the behest of Aboushi.
While the Mamdani team pretended that it needed millions of dollars to gather resumes from tens of thousands of people volunteering to fix the city, the truth is that its committees are an incestous collection of radical activists circling around the DSA and allied movements. Many members of the committees have come out of anti-Israel and pro-terrorist organizing.
Mamdani raised $4 million to build a team of the same old radicals he already knew, who have nothing but contempt and hatred for America and for New York City, and who plan to destroy it under the guise of implementing policies that they know are unworkable and insane.
Take Alex Vitale who had written an entire book calling for the elimination of the police. When asked what his solution to violent crime was, he replied that “will we need some kind of state agency that is capable of defending people from violence and exploitation? Yes. Might it look a lot like police look today? Possibly.” Why abolish the police just to replace them with the police?
But the radical Mamdani ally had described the police as a threat to “radical socialist oriented politics” that “will be used to stop us” and claimed that abolishing the police “creates political space for us to do what we need to do.”
This was never about free buses or government supermarkets. It’s not really about defunding the police or any of the other transparently unworkable promises, it’s about the revolution.
And the ‘revolution’ is about seizing power and destroying New York City and America.
The regular police will ultimately be replaced by secret police and sharia compliant police. The socialism is just to destroy the existing institutions and wreck as many people’s lives as possible. The existing institutions will be replaced via personnel or directive or renaming or whatever is the most convenient method. After that, the useful idiot socialists like Vitale will be purged and spend the rest of their lives writing whiny books about it. The whole idea is economical invasion. Everyone will be ruined except the Jihadist leaders, who will be richer than ever.
Until we take back what’s ours.
And you will need a lot of guns and ammo, and there will be plenty of bloodshed to do it, this is the kind of thing you don’t vote our way out of.
Plenty of bad guys out there ready to be hired.
The pile grows with the Schiffing.
It’s going to be like “shooting fish in a barrel”–New Yorkers being the unlucky fish.
Fellow Americans, get out of New York. Now. Before it’s too late. Then, let’s quarantine it and starve it of resources before this cancer spreads.
What was the old Angela Davis quote? “The issue is never the issue–the issue is the revolution.”
After watching Mamdani for two minutes it was obvious to anyone possessing an ounce of political realism who he is: a genocidal-minded Islamist Hell-bent on the destruction and Islamization of America. Any time now, our hard-working and dedicated republicans in congress will start working, tirelessly; courageously; night and day, to point all of this out and write legislation to counter the Islamic assault. That is, when they’re not on Fox News thumping their chests and talking tough.
Randy Delbert – Sure they will. When Hell freezes over.
2% of the citizens of NYC pay upwards of 50% of the taxes. When they leave, it all collapses. NYC is a ship of fools.
Three things come to mind: of course Mamdani would appoint/hire people from his own room; New Yorkers voted for this and must pay the price; the plague of Mamdani will spread across the country. Nothing good can be said of Mamdani as mayor of NYC.
Mamdani should be arrested immediately and either deported with his disgusting clan or death penalty
Zohran Madman had said that “Israel should not exist.”
Mamdani is very anti-Jewish and likewise anti- Israel So much so that before he had decided to run for mayor, he had declared that he wanted to “Globalize the Intifada “To this very day he has not denounced or retracted that statement.
The former United States President, William Howard Taft had in a speech, rightly and wisely, declared, “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed, that should be cut out. It has no place in America. ”
Likewise, there should be no place in America for Zohran Mamdani, or his likeminded transition team.
Not one single Jew in NYC has the balls to remove this stain, this 9/11 cheerleader from the midst of the NYC populace.
NOT A ONE.
Pretty obvious the day of John Garfield, Dane Clark and Jimmy Caan are long gone. It is replaced by the Lib JINO the idiots like Mandy Patinkin & Brad Lander who’d probably have supported one Adolf Hitler, were he be alive, a Liberal Dem and a Social Justice warrior for everyone – EXCEPT JEWS.
If there’s ever a follow-up to 9/11 – a NUCLEAR 9/11 IN NYC, the inhabitants who voted in this Nazi of color and those who did nothing afterwards will have richly deserved it.
At least we have them all identified and know where they work. I wonder what happens when all those Wall Street types keep on getting carjacked, robbed, raped, and murdered?
The taxes collected will be divided between Mamdani’s foreign bank account and a Islamist terror group. He will fill the purge of Americans from New York with terrorists flown in on private planes in small airports. Being Mayor is simply a cover. He will move quickly to use New York City as a staging platform for jihad. Mamdani is so full of glee and pridefulness at his opportunity to be an Islamic hero to the third world. The most iconic symbol of freedom is the statue of Liberty in New York City so it makes perfect sense that it was targeted. Only God Himself can save America. I’m not at all convinced He would want to.
S.Z. – Nothing you say in your comment would surprise
me. Except that I wholeheartedly believe that God wants
to save America.
Because just as I believe that God the Creator granted a
flower the right to soil, water and sun to thrive – he also
granted each human the right to life, to freedom and the
pursuit of happiness – in order to thrive.
The god of Islam, Allah, does not believe in any of those
things. Nor does his Muslim servant Mamdani and the
evil fiends with whom he surrounds himself.
I truly believe that God will never give up on America.
Were getting even more reasons to Boycott New York City(Home of that Cheap Salsa)and choose another Vacation destination next summer
Thank you Mr. Greenfield
Better move fast on this development.
Can’t sit on your hands watching the city and nation self-destruct. This IS an existential threat.
With these moo slim komodo lizards in NYC, no wonder God saw fit to insert Rubio, Patel, Bongino and company in Wash. DC
Defunding the police is how you bring about the revolution. The police are what stops the revolution.
There can be no doubt about the fact that George Soros and Neville Roy Singham are watching this with glee. They and their operations MUST BE INVESTIGATED.
The problem with the people on Mamdani’s transition team is they don’t seem to understand that their radical wish list of goals cannot be implemented because those political policies all run via the Albany legislature. Also many of these transition team members literally come fresh off the boat from nations where there’s no separation between the political authority and religious leaders. As such, these radicalized people seek not only to replicate the system of governance of their home nations in United States, they also demand that Islamic law replace American law. Lastly, these people grew up in a society where toxic anti-Semitism was not only tolerated but it was institutionalized in a cradle to grave Islamic culture.
The bottom-line is Mamdani’s transition team is full of unapologetic individuals who have not come to United States to assimilate but rather have come to remake America into just another failed state. Because replicating the type of governance of backwards tribal and sectarian driven Middle Eastern Islamic culture here in United States can only lead to the identical outcomes seen across that region. Yet these transition team members lack the self-awareness to objectively see the reasons for their failing and failed home nations. Somehow they think here in America, we can replicate our culture and way of life but not have it destroy the country. These people think just as long as they are the ruling class and hold the authority to discriminate against everyone else, an Islamic utopia can be created. Just as long as they separate the dhimmis from the true believers and make the dhimmis second class citizens then United States will be a great nation. Huh…it’s almost as if these transition team members are following the template of the rise of National Socialism in Germany during the 1930’s. And you ask, “what could go wrong?”
Mr. Greenfield, thanks for these brutal summaries of stupidity and corruption from California to New York. Few others seem capable to the task.
This is quite a rogues gallery of dangerous nincompoops being organized for obviously no good purpose. However, the one thing that the rest of us have going our way is that New York City is incredibly vulnerable. Its critical services and lines of communication would be easy to cut off. Observe and chronicle the coming disaster. Hopefully there’s enough vision left in our country to not let these people break out of their beachhead.
Mamdami: His campaign showed that authenticity can outperform political polish.