Mamdani chose to play Hamas’ spokesman on Oct. 7 anniversary

 https://nypost.com/2026/10/07/opinion/mamdani-chose-to-play-hamas-spokesman-on-oct-7-anniversary/

Mayor Zohran Mamdani seized the chance of the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 atrocities to again whitewash Hamas, demonize Israel and spew lies about the massacre and its aftermath.

The mayor’s statement offers a few empty platitudes about “unthinkable loss” but avoids details of Hamas’ barbarism and again calls its actions “war crimes.”

But war crimes happen during war, and Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza were not at war on Oct. 6, 2023: The invasion — the killings, the rapes, the kidnappings of civilians — caused the war.

This also sets up a phony standard for comparison as he soon moves on to what he calls Israel’s war crimes, which he pretends are far worse, indeed a “devastating, ongoing genocide.”

Isrel “killed more than 74,000 Palestinians — including more than 21,000 children,” he lectures, using numbers that even Hamas and its puppet Gaza Health Ministry no longer claim.