New York Times Campaigns for Mamdani by Hurling ‘Islamophobia’ at Opponents
29th October 2025
As Election Day approaches, the New York Times has passionately defended New York City’s socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, changing the subject to accusations of “Islamophobia” when one of his opponents (either former Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, or Republican Curtis Sliwa) dares to bring up Mamdani’s history of hostility toward Israel and abject failure to condemn the terrorist group Hamas, and his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America, an anti-Semitic organization.
They’re openly campaigning for the socialist. Late on Tuesday morning, Times reporters Matthew Haag and Dana Rubinstein posted “Attacking Mamdani’s Muslim faith, Cuomo has played to voters’ fears”.
Often the Mamdani cheerleading appeared high in the headline deck, as in Emma Fitzsimmons’ report on Sunday: “Vance Criticizes Mamdani’s Comments About Islamophobia After 9/11 — Zohran Mamdani said the vice president’s attack on social media was one in a series of “cheap jokes about Islamophobia.” Opponents “pounced”!