The father of Zohran Mamdani, the Queens assemblyman and socialist mayoral frontrunner, has ties to a controversial anti-Israel organization that accuses the Jewish state of genocide and has promoted sympathetic views of suicide bombers.

Mahmood Mamdani, 79, a chaired professor of African history and colonialism at Columbia University, is listed as a member of the advisory policy council of the Gaza Tribunal, a London-based group established last year. The organization describes its mission as an effort �to awaken civil society to its responsibility and opportunity to stop Israel�s genocide in Gaza,� and openly backs the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

The Gaza Tribunal has echoed many of the same anti-Israel sentiments espoused by Zohran Mamdani himself, who has emerged as a leading voice in far-left circles with vocal support for Palestinian causes. But the elder Mamdani�s involvement with the Tribunal�and his past writings�have sparked growing concern.

In a resurfaced passage from his 2004 book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror, Mahmood Mamdani urged readers to reconsider how suicide bombers are perceived in global conflicts.

�Suicide bombing needs to be understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism,� he wrote. �We need to recognize the suicide bomber, first and foremost, as a category of soldier.�

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