Islamophobia
Republicans seize on Mamdani after Trump Oval Office meeting and transition team pick
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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump has intersected with a growing Republican effort to cast him as emblematic of the Democratic Party’s left wing. That campaign has intensified with Mamdani’s decision to add sociology professor Alex Vitale, a prominent critic of policing, to his transition team, and with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent questioning the viability of the mayor-elect’s policy agenda in a televised interview.
A queer Palestinian student at Brown University endured a racist online campaign falsely accusing him of involvement in a deadly campus shooting. The smears, amplified by prominent figures, stemmed from conspiracy theories amid law enforcement delays. Mustapha Kharbouch, who survived the attack, received death threats while grieving.
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Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, has been elected as New York City’s 111th mayor, defeating Andrew Cuomo in a high-turnout race centered on affordability. He is set to become the city’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor, winning more than one million votes as overall turnout surpassed two million — the highest for a mayoral race since 1969 — amid a campaign marred by Islamophobic attacks.