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Fox News
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Will Zohran Mamdani protect all New Yorkers? He owes the Jewish community an answer
As New York City faces an unprecedented surge in antisemitism, with Jewish residents experiencing the highest levels of hatred and violence in decades, every elected official and candidate should be held accountable for their commitment to protecting all constituents. This includes Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, whose past statements and associations raise serious questions about his dedication to Jewish safety and security. The data paints a stark picture. New York State experienced a record 1,437 antisemitic incidents in 2024—an 18 percent increase from 2023, and the highest number of any state in the nation. Even more alarming, antisemitic assaults in New York jumped by 52 percent in 2024, accounting for nearly one-third of all antisemitic assaults nationwide. This isn't just about statistics—it's about real people living in fear. This is a 12-year-old being bullied at a middle school in Queens, or an Orthodox couple harassed in broad daylight in Brooklyn. It's a group of Jewish college students trapped in a library with a mob screaming at them, banging on the windows. Jewish New Yorkers are being harassed and targeted at synagogues, schools, universities, businesses and on the street. Against this backdrop, Mamdani's past embrace of inflammatory rhetoric and support for radical anti-Israel groups make understanding his commitment to Jewish safety even more important. As a student, he founded the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at Bowdoin College. It is one of the most radical groups on college campuses in America. As an assemblymember, he sponsored the "Not on our Dime Act" that attempted to stop New York registered charitable organizations from sending donations to Israel to "fund war crimes." This included needs like ambulance services, emergency response, food security, and more. Most recently, Mamdani's failure to condemn chants of "Globalize the Intifada"—a slogan that is nothing less than a call for indiscriminate violence against Israel, Jews and Jewish communities worldwide—raises fundamental questions about his commitment to Jewish safety. He was given multiple opportunities over the last several weeks, including with Meet the Press host Kristen Welker, to clarify his stance. Mamdani did not swing and miss; he refused to even take the bat off his shoulder and try to hit the pitch. But the concerns now have evolved far beyond simply calling out a clear statement of violence. Any candidate for mayor needs to explain to the Jewish community and to all New York City residents what specific steps they will take to curb surging antisemitism and hate — and what measures they will not take so as not to endanger the embattled Jewish community in a moment when it is already reeling. We should be asking some key questions and demanding public answers from the candidates rather than private reassurances. For example: To be clear, these aren't unreasonable requests – they're basic expectations for any public servant but relevant based on past associations, positions and statements. At the same time, the onus is not just on Mamdani. There are many candidates in this mayoral race. We expect all of them to support the Jewish community. Antisemitism is not an abstraction – it is a clear and present danger to Jewish Americans. In the past few months, we have seen it manifest in very threatening ways in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Boulder, Colorado. In light of these very real acts of violence, we need a mayor who demonstrates in deed, not just in word, how they will prevent the bedlam from spreading to New York and how they will protect Jewish New Yorkers, considering their singular set of challenges and do so with the same degree of care and respect shown to all other New Yorkers. The Jewish community—and all New Yorkers who value tolerance and safety—deserve clear, unambiguous answers. *As a 501(c)(3) organization, ADL takes no position in support of or in opposition to any candidate for elected office.
New York Post
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Even Sarah Jessica Parker ‘would never wear' some of Carrie Bradshaw's outfits
She couldn't help but wonder… what was Carrie Bradshaw thinking? Sarah Jessica Parker recently admitted that even she wouldn't step out in some of her 'Sex and the City' character's wildest outfits. The 'And Just Like That' star, 60, weighed in on Carrie's divisive fashion choices during an appearance on 'Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen' on Sunday, July 13. Advertisement 6 Sarah Jessica Parker weighed in on Carrie Bradshaw's divisive fashion choices on 'Watch What Happens Live.' Charles Sykes/Bravo In a segment called 'The Shady Hat,' inspired by the viral gingham hat Carrie wore in the Season 3 premiere of 'And Just Like That,' Parker was asked if there was 'one thing that Carrie has worn that [she], SJP, would never be caught dead in.' 'I mean, there are piles and piles of laundry… of things that I would never wear,' she answered, only to be asked if she herself would ever sport that hat. 'I'd have to have a really good reason. I probably wouldn't have just strolled around Washington Square Park.' Advertisement 'I do want to say, that milliner is a woman named Maryam Keyhani, and she's amazing,' the 'Hocus Pocus' actress added. 'That hat is one of many pieces of works of art — whatever you want to do, make it a funny thing — but she's incredible.' 6 'And Just Like That' viewers compared Carrie to Strawberry Shortcake. HBO Fan backlash over the hat saw viewers comparing Carrie to Strawberry Shortcake, a reaction 'And Just Like That' costume designer Molly Rogers didn't think was warranted. 'Do you want Carrie to walk through the park with Seema with a straw hat on from I don't know, I can do it. I mean, I don't want to,' Rogers told Page Six. Advertisement She added, 'That kind of annoyed me, because I think at this point, we're all a big family, we all watched the show, we know what it is. That fazes you?' 6 Sarah Jessica Parker in Season 3 of 'And Just Like That.' MAX Still, Rogers and co-costume designer Danny Santiago were prepared that 'people were going to come for [them].' Parker, however, was the reason Carrie wore the controversial hat in the first place, she revealed to USA Today last month. Advertisement 'I saw the hat and wanted it on my head,' she told the outlet. 'At this point, there's no pretend dilly-dallying around. We pretty much just put stuff on my head and photograph it and hope that Michael Patrick [King] ('And Just Like That' creator) is hospitable to the idea.' 6 Sarah Jessica Parker said Carrie's dress felt 'incomplete' without the cloud-like headpiece. AP Parker added that the accompanying dress — one she said reminded her of Neapolitan ice cream — felt 'incomplete' without the cloud-like headpiece. 'Once you've put a lot of hats on your head, you feel like it's missing its punctuation point,' she said. 'There was that hat. It was going to be a lovely summer day, and it just felt like the period at the end of the sentence. I loved it, and [King] agreed. I feel we've really worn him down. His eyes have adapted to large-scale things on heads now, so he's pretty generous about how often they can appear.' King, for his part, told USA Today, 'It's like, 'Hey, everybody, we're back! Here's a hat that Carrie would wear eating sherbet in Washington Square Park. Why not?' I've learned over the years that sometimes logic is not as good as a hat. It makes people say, 'I love it. I hate it. Oh, my God, what was she thinking?'' 6 Sarah Jessica Parker in Season 2 of 'And Just Like That.' Craig Blankenhorn/Max King also told the outlet he predicts 'it'll be a thing' for months to come. 'It'll be a meme,' he stated. 'People will wear it at Halloween. It's always fun, but with that [hat] particularly, I had to call up some of the writers and say, 'Get ready. Once it's on the head, it's not coming off.'' Advertisement During her appearance on 'Watch What Happens Live,' Parker also shared her thoughts on which 'Sex and the City' character had the worst style. Parker starred alongside Kim Cattrall (Samantha Jones), Cynthia Nixon (Miranda Hobbes) and Kristin Davis (Charlotte York) in the original series. 6 Sarah Jessica Parker during her appearance on 'Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.' Charles Sykes/Bravo 'I think there were images at one point of us arriving in New York, and the way we dressed — I think there was a montage of our arrival, like newborn babies exposed to nothing,' she said. 'I would say all of us at the beginning.' Season 3 of 'And Just Like That' premiered on May 29 on HBO Max. Episodes release weekly on Thursdays, with the season finale scheduled for August 14.
Cosmopolitan
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Why Sarah Jessica Parker Doesn't Watch ‘And Just Like That...'
Sarah Jessica Parker has been a staple on our TV screens for over 25 years, thanks to her beloved Sex and the City character, Carrie Bradshaw. But what you might not know is that SJP hasn't even watched her show or its spin-off. During a recent interview on Watch What Happens Live, host Andy Cohen couldn't help but wonder if the actor tunes in to Carrie's recent mishaps on And Just Like That... She revealed that she's not a fan of watching herself on screen, but she still cares deeply about the experience that's made her a household name in pop culture. 'I don't not watch it because I'm being cavalier about my relationship,' she explained during the July 13 episode of the Bravo talk show. 'I don't watch it because I don't love watching my work. Myself. It doesn't touch on, like, how I feel about the experience or how much I care. In fact, it's because I care that I can't watch it.' Her comments come after a May interview with E! News, where she was asked whether she'd watched either series in full. 'Oh my God, no,' she replied. 'I don't watch it, never seen it. Never seen Sex and the City, most of them.' And apparently, neither has her family, including her husband Matthew Broderick, 22-year-old son James Wilkie, and 13-year-old twins Tabitha and Marion. As SJP explained, 'I think it's very odd for them to yet let it into their viewing queue. Even for James Wilkie, he started by coming to the premiere of And Just Like That... [and] then he started watching the show but school work got in the way.' She went on to add, 'But it's all available for them some day if they want it, they'll get no pressure from me.' At the end of the day, SJP wants to be known as the mother of her children. 'Mostly I want them to recall me as their parent,' she concluded. 'But maybe one day they'll find a way to watch it and be comfortable with what they see. I mean, there's nothing I do that I think is terribly shocking, but it's a very different way of seeing a parent.'
New York Post
13-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Radical college group Mamdani co-founded wanted justice for convicted terrorist deported from US
The Bowdoin College chapter of radical group Students for Justice in Palestine, co-founded by socialist NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, went to bat for a terrorist convicted of deadly bombings in Israel — and was then later booted out of the US for immigration fraud. Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 70, was convicted for a pair of bombings in Israel she helped execute in 1969 — one at a Supersol supermarket that killed two college students and a second at the British Consulate in the country. Odeh helped carry out the heinous crimes under the flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a US-designated terror group. Advertisement 3 A radical anti-Israel group Zohran Mamdani helped launch during his time at Bowdoin College defended the arrest and deportation of a convicted terrorist bomber in 2014. REUTERS The Palestinian-Jordanian radical was sentenced to life in prison in Israel after she was convicted in 1970, but was released in 1979 as part of a prisoner exchange. Odeh then arrived in the US from Jordan on an immigrant visa in 1994 and became a citizen in 2004. The terrorist was ordered deported in 2017 for lying about her involvement in the bombings on both her visa and US citizenship application. Advertisement Still, in 2014, the year Mamdani graduated from Bowdoin College, SJP shared an article about her case from The Hill on Facebook, and crowed, 'Justice for Rasmea Odeh!' A Facebook account linked to Mamdani also 'liked' the statement, which was viewed by The Post. The upstart socialist helped launch the Bowdoin chapter of SJP during his time at the elite college. Advertisement The same group in 2013 also invited radical Lebanese-American speaker, As'ad AbuKhalil, to address the student body. AbuKhalil has sensationally called Israel a bigger terror threat than Iran and boasted he was greatly influenced by a Palestinian leader with the nickname the 'godfather of Middle Eastern terrorism.' Independent New York City mayoral candidate Jim Walden hit out at Mamdani on X for SJP's social media post in support of Odeh, saying it 'praised her as a victim' and calling it 'radical extremism and antisemitism.' 3 Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 70, was convicted in 1970 of two terrorist bombings in Israel the year before, including an attack on a supermarket that left two college students dead. REUTERS Advertisement Remi Kanazi, an author and poet affiliated with SJP, also tweeted his support of Odeh in a 2014 post on X, writing, 'Why is the Obama administration prosecuting torture victim Rasmea Odeh? Drop the charges: Write or call in TODAY,' he wrote with a link to an article that has since been taken offline. In her 2017 plea agreement, Odeh admitted lying about her criminal history and convictions in her US immigration applications, and that she knew it was against the law to provide false information to the US government. 'Had Odeh revealed the truth about her criminal history, as she was required to by law, she never would have been granted an immigrant visa, admitted to the United States, allowed to live here for the last 22 years or granted United States citizenship,' the plea read. 3 Odeh was deported in 2017 based on charges filed by the Obama administration Justice Department in 2014. AP She was stripped of her citizenship, barred from the country for life and deported to Jordan. Though Mamdani graduated from Bowdoin in spring 2014, the SJP chapter he founded has continued to engage in increasingly radical activism. Earlier this year, the group occupied a campus building as part of a protest against the school's investment practices and President Trump hinting at taking control of war-torn Gaza, the Bowdoin Orient wrote. Meanwhile, Mamdani himself has raised eyebrows with several past statements and social media posts that appeared to be sympathetic to known terrorists. Advertisement In one resurfaced tweet, Mamdani appeared to defend al Qaeda menace Anwar al-Awalaki, who was later taken out in a drone strike approved by then-President Barack Obama. In his days as a rapper, Mamdani praised the heads of the so-called 'Holy Land Five,' the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, an infamous nonprofit convicted of funneling more than $12 million to the terror group Hamas. Mamdani's camp did not immediately respond to The Post's request for comment.
Buzz Feed
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Why Sarah Jessica Parker Doesn't Talk Politics Online
And just like that, we now know why Sarah Jessica Parker isn't all up in your timeline talking about politics. Sarah recently appeared on The Best People podcast, and during the chat the ...And Just Like That actor got into it about why she doesn't use social media to talk about political issues. Her explanation 'I often don't talk on social media because I don't think it's a place that's deserving of any real complicated conversation," she explained. "I'm not interested in quick little snippets when it's dealing with conflict or even elections sometimes,' Now, those with a particularly sharp sense of memory will probably point out that what Sarah is saying isn't explicitly true. She did, after all, endorse the Harris-Walz campaign on Instagram ahead of the 2024 US Presidential Election. But before you get your "Gotcha!"s in, she's got an explanation for that. 'I really was so thoughtful about how I wanted to talk about the election because I think it turns into a distraction from a campaign," she said. "It turns into fodder. It's misunderstood. You have no control over it.' Sarah then went on to say that there are 'so many ways to work toward a more civil society' — which, fair enough — and that US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 'was elected without social media' back in 1932. Wait, what?!? 'Many things happened, right and left, Republicans and Democrats for many, many, many, many years — many generations were elected without someone having to say something on Instagram,' she elaborated. Following that somewhat tortured comparison, SJP claimed that people have urged her to "be vocal" when it comes to her political stances — but that, for her, it's about finding a way to be "comfortable being vocal." 'I'm not going to talk about stuff that I don't feel educated on," she explained. "I'm not going to jump in on really complex areas that I feel are deserving of far more thought, consideration, nuance — which I know no one's interested in. And I just feel like I want to be helpful. I don't want to hurt something that matters to me.' I mean, look, I'm not going to argue against the careful application of just leave the 1930s out of it, please. You can listen to the entire chat here.
