New York Metropolis Mayor Zohran Mamdani is shunning Sunday’s annual parade honoring Israel, breaking with a decades-long political custom due to his fealty to the Jewish state’s sworn opponents.
The parade, referred to as Israel Day on Fifth, sees Jewish teams descend on Manhattan’s iconic Fifth Avenue in a cornerstone show by the realm’s Jewish neighborhood, drawing in individuals from across the metropolis and the area.
AP reviews the Israel Day parade has all the time been a must-attend occasion for mayors, governors and different political leaders desperate to embrace the throngs of flag-waving revelers who congregate on Fifth Avenue to have fun Israel’s delivery in 1948.
Not anymore it appears.
New York Metropolis Mayor Zohran Mamdani is shunning Israel Day on Fifth however noticed match to take part in Islam’s Eid al-Adha prayers and ship remarks at Yancey Monitor and Discipline at Macombs Dam Park within the Bronx, New York Metropolis, United States, on Might 27, 2026. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu by way of Getty Photos)
Mamdani is a longtime supporter of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) motion which bars any “normalization” with the nation.
Two weeks in the past the mayor’s workplace launched a video commemorating the Nakba, an Arabic phrase for “disaster” that’s used to explain the 1948 Arab-Israeli battle that adopted Israel’s institution.
“I mentioned on the marketing campaign path that I wouldn’t be attending the parade, and I’ve made my views on the Israeli authorities abundantly clear,” Mamdani mentioned at a information convention Thursday.
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The AP report notes, Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue on Lengthy Island and president of the Basis for Ethnic Understanding, which advocates for higher relationships between Jews and Muslims, referred to as Mamdani’s determination to not attend the parade “a slap within the face to all Jewish New Yorkers.”
Others resembling former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett added their voice. He referred to as Mamdani’s determination to simply not present up “cowardly.”
Mayors in New York Metropolis, which has America’s largest Jewish inhabitants, have lengthy been seen supporters of Israel, typically visiting the nation.
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