Democratic Socialists Will Push Mamdani To Implement Anti-Israel Agenda

A self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” is now poised to lead America’s largest city — and one of the world’s financial capitals — with an incoming administration already facing questions about how closely it will be guided by the far-left movement that helped elect it.

Internal documents obtained by Just the News reportedly reveal that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is preparing a coordinated pressure campaign to ensure New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani enacts a sweeping agenda targeting Israel and reshaping the city according to the group’s ideological goals.

Mamdani, who defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and Republican Curtis Sliwa on Tuesday, has long been embedded within the DSA. He is listed by the organization as one of nine “New York State Socialists in Office,” and the group played a central role in both his primary and general election campaigns. According to Politico, the NYC DSA even strategized messaging during the campaign to make Mamdani appear more politically moderate to the broader electorate.

The DSA’s own “Socialists in Office” project describes its members as elected officials working collectively to implement a socialist economic and political vision across the state. Mamdani, featured prominently on that roster, has not hidden his ideological sympathies in the past.

In a resurfaced video from 2023, Mamdani told attendees at the DSA’s national conference: “when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it has been laced by the IDF.” The remarks drew sharp backlash and showcased his alignment with the organization’s inflammatory anti-Israel rhetoric — a position he notably downplayed while courting voters during his mayoral run.

Now, internal planning documents from the DSA’s Anti-War Working Group (AWWG) show the organization preparing to leverage its political and activist infrastructure to ensure Mamdani governs as one of their own.

According to Just the News, the group’s demands include:

• “Divest City pension funds from Israeli bonds and securities,”
• “Withdraw City funds from banks that lend money to Israel or do business in Israel,”
• “End City contracts with companies that do business with Israel,”
• “Operate City-run grocery stores free from Israeli products,”
• “Investigate real estate agents hosting illegal sales of stolen lands in the West Bank,”
• “Evict weapons manufacturers and transporters from the NYC Metro Area,”
• “Divest CUNY endowment and reinstate wrongly fired professors,”
• “Dismantle Eric Adam’s NYC-Israel economic council,”
• “End repression of demonstrators and the SRG [the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group],”
• “Remove non-profit status from charities that raise funds for IDF,”
• “End NYPD training with IOF,” and
• “Arrest Netanyahu and active IDF soldiers for war crimes.”

The platform amounts to the most aggressively anti-Israel municipal program ever proposed in the United States — one that would weaponize city contracts, pensions, law enforcement practices, and civil society institutions to isolate Israel and its supporters.

Mamdani celebrated his victory Tuesday night at Brooklyn’s Paramount Theatre, invoking socialist iconography and global left-wing political leaders.

Addressing cheering supporters, he quoted union leader and socialist organizer Eugene Debs:
“As Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.”

He also cited India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru:
“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new.”

Mamdani, 34, will be New York City’s first socialist mayor, as well as its first Muslim and first mayor of South Asian descent. He portrayed his election as a victory for immigrants and working-class communities, condemning what he claimed were Islamophobic attacks on his campaign.

Raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side after being born in Uganda, Mamdani credited “working-class New Yorkers” for delivering his win.

What remains unclear is whether Mamdani will govern as the pragmatic mayor he portrayed during the campaign — or as the ideological revolutionary his own party base now openly expects him to be.