Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign is under scrutiny again after a resurfaced video showed a former staffer of his referring to pro-Palestinian activism as �all Jihad� and encouraging fellow Muslim students to embrace doxing, arrest, and suspension as part of their political mission.

In the video, Hadeeqa Malik, a student at City College of New York and current president of the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), delivers a fiery speech during a CUNY4Palestine webinar titled Islamic Political Activism. �The true believer knows that none of this is in vain, that this is all Jihad,� she said.

Malik�s comments were originally posted to her LinkedIn account ten months ago, alongside a public endorsement of the event. She is seen encouraging Muslim students to defy social and academic consequences in the name of political activism. �The conversation of doxing, the conversation of getting arrested and suspended � I think it�s time for Muslims to start to say alright, alright so what?”

According to her publicly available LinkedIn profile, Malik served as a summer 2024 intern for Mamdani�s Assembly office, handling communications, outreach, and policy work. A selfie posted online shows the two smiling together.

Malik�s speech is not an isolated moment. In a separate video from a February rally, she can be seen confronting a Muslim NYPD officer during a protest, leading a crowd in chants of �Let�s read the badges of the pigs� and appearing to shame the officer for serving in law enforcement. �Put some respect on their names!� she yells, referencing Muslim names worn by officers on their badges. The visibly distressed officer was eventually replaced by a colleague as protesters jeered.

Malik, who is studying international relations with a minor in human rights, also lists herself as an Outreach Coordinator for the Council on American�Islamic Relations (CAIR) and a Racial Justice Fellow at the Colin Powell School for Civil and Global Leadership. CAIR did not respond to requests for comment.

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