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‘The View’ Star Alyssa Farah Griffin Blasts NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani for His Statement About Israel Attack
Alyssa Farah Griffin is standing alongside many Jewish leaders who were offended by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani‘s statement marking the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
On Wednesday, October 7, the 34-year-old mayor issued a lengthy statement on X marking a “profoundly painful” day “for so many New Yorkers.”
After acknowledging Hamas’ attack on Israel — which resulted in more than 1,000 deaths — Mamdani added, “The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians — including more than 21,000 children.”
In response to Mamdani’s statement, many directly responded with outrage.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said in his own X post that Mamdani is “weaponizing a day meant for mourning the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust to recycle your usual antizionist talking points.”
The View panelist and former White House director of strategic communications, 37, also weighed in.
Farah Griffin, who identifies as Christian, quoted the post and wrote: “I don’t understand why the Mayor couldn’t simply give Jews *one day* to mourn the largest mass killing of Jews since the holocaust.”
Three years ago, Palestinian militant group Hamas led an attack on Israel, and the conflict in the Middle East is still ongoing.
In Mamdani’s statement, he said, “That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing.”
“Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them — all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes,” he wrote.
“To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity,” Mamdani concluded.
Israel previously denied claims of genocide during its war in Gaza, according to the Associated Press.
