Rep Elise Stefanik wrote the incident ‘should serve as a wake-up call that Mamdani is ushering in the pro-terrorist antisemitic takeover of NYC’
Red swastikas were graffitied on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn just hours after Zohran Mamdani (D.) was elected New York City’s next mayor. Mamdani, a socialist who has long faced scrutiny over his anti-Semitic rhetoric, has not commented on the vandalism.
Parents dropping off their children at Magen David Yeshiva were met with at least four swastikas painted on the building’s walls Wednesday morning, Yeshiva World News reported. The school covered the graffiti with an Israeli flag and paper as a temporary fix.
No arrests have been made and a hate crime investigation is ongoing, a New York City Police Department spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon. Magen David Yeshiva is home to over 1,200 students and is one of the largest Sephardic Jewish schools in the city, according to Yeshiva World News.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) tied the vandalism to Mamdani and criticized the socialist mayor-elect and New York governor Kathy Hochul (D.), who endorsed Mamdani, for failing to condemn the hateful act.
“This is reprehensible and unacceptable and should serve as a wake-up call that Mamdani is ushering in the pro-terrorist antisemitic takeover of NYC aided and abetted by the Worst Governor in America @KathyHochul,” Stefanik posted on X. “Both Mamdani and Hochul are SILENT and have failed to condemn.”
Mamdani faced intense criticism for his anti-Semitic remarks and positions throughout his mayoral campaign. In June, he defended the phrase “globalize the intifada,” a popular chant at anti-Israel protests that calls for violence against Jews worldwide, and last month campaigned with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Mamdani also promised as mayor to drop the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism, leading to sharp criticism from Jewish organizations.
Neither Mamdani nor Hochul responded to requests for comment.
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