MAMDANI COMPLAINS ABOUT ISLAMOPHOBIA, BUT ENGAGES IN JEWPHOBIA

JD Vance slams Zohran Mamdani for 'disgraceful' comments about 9/11 which failed to acknowledge victims

 

By Joe Hutchison 

 

Daily Mail

Oct 25, 2025

 

 

 

Vance posted his comments on Saturday, sharing a clip of Mamdani speaking about the terrorist attack and the impact it had on his family  

 

JD Vance has hit out at New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's comments about 9/11 after the Democrat hopeful spoke about Islamophobia following the atrocity but failed to mention its victims.

The Vice President slammed Mamdani, 33, after he broke down describing the prejudice his hijab-wearing aunt suffered in the wake of the terrorist attacks.

Vance suggested that the socialist candidates remarks ignored the 3,000 who died and the thousands more who were injured when the World Trade Center collapsed.

The Democratic candidate, 33, spoke outside a mosque in the Bronx on Friday where he mentioned his aunt's fear of wearing a hijab in the city following the horrific attack.

Posting to X, Vance said: 'According to Zohran the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks.'

Vance reshared footage of Mamdani making the comments, teared up when mentioning the 'indignities' faced by the city's Muslim population post 9/11.  

'I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab,' the assemblyman said.

Mamdani - who was born in Uganda and became an American citizen in 2018 - also spoke of working class Muslims who served New York City in various capacities. 

 

 

The Democratic candidate spoke outside a mosque in the Bronx on Friday where he mentioned his aunt's fear of wearing a hijab in the city following the 9/11 attack

On October 17 Mamdani posted photos from a Brooklyn mosque where he said he had “the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century.” The Imam was tied to the 1993 WTC terror bombing

 

'The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker and yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that and to be satisfied with whatever little we receive. No more!' 

CNN's conservative black sheep Scott Jennings also chimed in on Mamdani's comments. 

In a post to X, Jennings said: 'There was one big thing missing from Zohran Mamdani's emotional remarks about 9/11.

'Any mention of the VICTIMS of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil. What are we to infer from this?'

He wasn't alone either, as one social media user posted: 'These theatrics are disgusting. Everything about Zohran Mamdani is vile and intrinsically anti-West.'

Another added: 'She was THE real victim on 9/11. Really? That's about the stupidest statement ever.' 

One other said: 'Yeah, those 3000 people who died have nothing on auntie's feelings.' 

Mamdani's comments came about after statements made by his opponents Curtis Sliwa, Andrew Cuomo and current mayor Eric Adams, who dropped out of the race.

 

Scott Jennings and social media users jumped on the comments, with one branded it 'disgusting'

 

He recounted how, when he first entered politics, an uncle gently suggested he keep his faith to himself.

'These are lessons that so many Muslim New Yorkers have been taught,' Mamdani said. 

'And over these last few days, these lessons have become the closing messages of Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa and Eric Adams.'

At a news conference later Friday, Cuomo accused Mamdani of 'playing the victim' for political purposes and denied that Islamophobia existed on a wide scale in New York. 

'Zohran is an actor and his entire campaign has been theatrics. Literally, his mother is a noted film director,' he said.

'He was a rapper, actor and he has produced great videos but it is all an act. Today he's playing the victim but in reality he is the offender.' 

Cuomo told reporters that Mamdani's criticism of Israel had made Jewish people afraid to leave their homes.

He also rejected Mamdani's claim that Muslim New Yorkers have been made to feel uncomfortable in their own city.

 

Disgraced former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, seen here, said Mamdani was 'playing the victim' 

 

'Don't tell me New Yorkers are Islamophobic. They're not. What he is doing is the oldest, dirtiest political trick in the book: divide people,' Cuomo said.

At a campaign stop later on Friday, Mamdani added that he believed Cuomo's comments to be Islamophobic. 

He added: 'We're speaking about a former governor who, in his final moments in public life, is engaging in rhetoric that is not only Islamophobic, not only racist, it's also disgusting.'  

Mamdani is currently leading in polls by double digits after campaigning on a host of populist left-wing policies. 

He has said he wants to make the city's buses free, open a government-run supermarket and tax those earning $1 million or more a year an extra one per cent to fund his plans. 

He has won huge support among younger and working class New Yorkers, who say the city is becoming too expensive for people on low or average incomes to survive.

But many business leaders and police have vowed to flee New York if Mamdani wins.

They worry his socialist policies will raise the cost of doing business, with Mamdani's previous attacks on the New York Police Department he deemed 'racist' also raising cops' hackles.  

The aspiring mayor apologized for attacking the police on Fox News. 

Many Jews have also expressed concern over his staunch pro-Palestine stance and vow to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested should he set foot in the Big Apple during a Mamdani term.

Mamdani has denied being anti-Semitic. He won the Democratic primary by a significant margin, which forced Cuomo to run on an Independent ticket.