‘Disturbing!’ Palestinian Activist Slams ‘Very Disappointing’ Mamdani for Carrying Water for Hamas

‘Disturbing!’ Palestinian Activist Slams ‘Very Disappointing’ Mamdani for Carrying Water for Hamas
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a senior fellow at The Atlantic Council and the director of Realign for Palestine, slammed New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani (D) on Thursday for carrying water for Hamas during an interview with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum the previous day.

After Alkhatib observed that Hamas has terrorized the population of Gaza in the days since it agreed to a fragile peace with Israel, as well as condemned the pro-Palestine movement for not speaking out about Hamas’ atrocities against the Palestinian people, he addressed Mamdani’s repeated refusal to call on Hamas to lay down its arms and give up power during his sit-down with MacCallum.

“Very disappointing,” declared Alkhatib after being asked what he made of Mamdani’s evasive answers. “Look, I’m not in the business of commenting on mayoral races. However, it should be straightforward and low-hanging fruit to say that a terror organization that harmed the Palestinians should be able to disarm. Claiming that you don’t have an opinion on international and foreign relations and-, while at the same time saying you will arrest Bibi Netanyahu, that’s a contradiction to me. You should be able to definitively distance the just, and urgent Palestinian people’s aspirations from Hamas. I was very disappointed, very disturbed by the rhetoric. And again, this is symptomatic of a larger trend within the so-called pro-Palestine movement that exists in the diaspora.”