Zohran Mamdani (D) defends staying off Holocaust Remembrance resolution [View all]

NEW YORK — Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani said Friday that his public statements should outweigh his actions on non-binding resolutions, following POLITICO reporting the mayoral candidate did not sign onto measures commemorating the Holocaust and honoring Israel.

“I have condemned the Holocaust every year. This is something that is very clear to me and every New Yorker, and is something that I’ve made clear mostly in public statements, which is where most New Yorkers are actually engaging with their politics,” Mamdani said at an unrelated press conference.

Andrew Epstein, a spokesperson for Mamdani’s campaign, shared the lawmaker’s social media posts commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 and said Mamdani has supported more funding for Holocaust survivors, including by signing onto Assemblymember Nily Rozic’s budget letter advocating to allocate more to a state program for survivors.


He did not present some of this information when initially asked for comment ahead of POLITICO’s first story.



https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/zohran-mamdani-defends-staying-off-holocaust-remembrance-resolution-00355281