You’ll never guess who came to dinner last night. Fresh off of very reluctantly admitting that the Gracie Mansion bombers are ISIS terrorists, Mayor Zohran Mamdani thumbs his nose in New Yorker’s faces. He and his wife invited Mahmoud Khalil and his family to dinner.
Yes, you read that correctly. And Mamdani bragged about it on social media.
For Mahmoud Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship—and by profound courage.
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) March 10, 2026
A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE… pic.twitter.com/6dBtLh0GeT
The rest of his brag reads as follows:
forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child.
Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together.
Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.
Let me stop the grinning goblin right there. Mahmoud Khalil is NOT an American citizen. Period.
He is a raging anti-semite who has been front and center with the Columbia protests. His group has made it abundantly clear that they want to wipe all Jews off the map.
Mahmoud Khalil’s org: “We are fightng for the total eradication of Western civilization.”
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 10, 2026
Mamdani just hosted him as an honored guest in his mansion. https://t.co/s7e23RRh8E pic.twitter.com/hgTwLVdHVu
Mamdani has been quite upfront about his support for Khalil.
Mamdani has been a vocal defender of Khalil, who spent three months in a Louisiana federal lockup before a three-judge panel in New Jersey ruled in June that he should have been allowed to work through the immigration process.
“I see this attack on him as part of a larger attack on the freedom of speech that is especially pronounced when it comes to the use of that speech to stand up for policy to human rights,” the mayor said at an unrelated press conference in January.
I’ll remind our readers once again, Mahmoud Khalil is NOT an American citizen. His freedom of speech has limits as prescribed by the rules and restrictions one has to adhere by under green card status.
But that doesn’t matter to Khalil or to Mamdani. Khalil is a martyr for the cause. His organization is very clear as to where they stand regarding Jews.
This is who the Mayor of New York City hosted tonight. The quotes mean "Death to America" https://t.co/dffMyV1egk pic.twitter.com/VugQR8ndGg
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 10, 2026
Khalil has been equally vocal in his support for Hamas.
The optics of this dinner are bad on a multitude of levels. Most especially that Mamdani specifically hosted a raging antisemite at the mayor’s official residence. This move, in light of Mamdani’s reluctance to call the bombers what they are, ISIS terrorists, and his wife liking well over 70 posts praising the massacre of Jews by Hamas on October 7, hands an aura of legitimacy to someone who has made it clear that he hates American and especially hates all Jews.
For someone whose life is supposedly in limbo, he’s being handed all sorts of perks and a legitimacy he’s never earned.
When he emerged from custody, Khalil appeared before supporters wearing a shirt that read ‘Lift the siege on Gaza,’ raising his arms in celebration as crowds cheered.
He thanked supporters, legal advocates and protesters who he said had the ‘courage’ to continue demonstrating despite immigration enforcement actions.
Khalil sharply criticized his former university during public remarks.
Columbia ‘would do anything and everything it can to ensure that the words ‘free Palestine’ are not uttered anywhere near it,’ he said. ‘But while we are here, Free, Free Palestine!’
Addressing allegations that he promoted violence, Khalil pushed back.
He said the administration had tried to portray him as ‘violent,’ but argued he is simply ‘a Palestinian who refused to stay silent while watching a genocide.’
‘Genocide… is being funded by the US government,’ he added.
Well yes, genocide and terror have certainly been funded…by Iran and their state-sponsored terrorist groups. But Khalil doesn’t want us to recognize that fact. Nor does Mamdani.
By hosting Khalil for dinner during Ramadan, Mamdani has thumbed his nose at New Yorkers and specifically Jewish New Yorkers. And of course, people are going to be ticked off.
Evidently we aren’t allowed to be upset, even angry that the Mayor of New York City has hosting a supporter of Hamas to a Ramadan dinner just two days after an ISIS driven terror attack.
But guys, his life is in limbo!
While Khalil may now be free from detention, he is not free from fear and the possibility he could still be deported.
“It’s really impacting everything in our lives, right now I don’t go on walks with my child alone, fearing that there would be arbitrary detention from this administration,” Khalil said. “That my American child will also be deported, because they’ve done it.”
One year later, Khalil’s life is still in limbo and his future is still uncertain.
Oh, I’d say his future is pretty certain at the moment.
Just a casual dinner at Gracie with the lovely, private citizen, shy wifey whose fingers could not keep up with liking posts about the MASSACRE of Jews, and the RING LEADER & CHIEF “NEGOTIATOR” of Columbia’s antisemitic encampments where Jewish students were harassed and… https://t.co/QyHNH6VNld
— Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (@InnaVernikov) March 10, 2026
Especially when you have a mayor giving you and your Hamas-driven antisemitism legitimacy you didn’t earn and certainly do not deserve.
Feature Photo Credit: Original artwork by Victory Girls Darleen Click
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