A senior figure on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani�s transition team is facing intense backlash after a series of social-media posts surfaced showing him using anti-Jewish slurs, praising Israel�s enemies, and directing vitriol toward Jewish public figures.
Hassaan Chaudhary � listed on LinkedIn as political director for Mamdani�s transition and inaugural committee � repeatedly used the word �Jew� as a derogatory insult, accused Israel of �barbarism,� and echoed genocidal rhetoric from Iranian leaders. The posts span more than a decade, including some as recent as late 2024.
Among the most alarming messages was Chaudhary�s praise for former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who infamously called Israel �a cancer which will be eliminated soon.� In a celebratory repost to Pakistani official Murtaza Solangi, Chaudhary wrote: �This banda is fearless,� amplifying Ahmadinejad�s threat.
He also invoked antisemitic language directly, responding to journalist Najam Sethi in 2012 with a phrase in Urdu roughly translating to �Jew will be your father� � a slur widely recognized as degrading and hostile.
Chaudhary reserved some of his harshest rhetoric for the Jewish state, calling Israel a �bloody country,� a �barbaric nation,� and accusing it of murdering innocent Palestinians. In one post he declared: �TALK about it. #stupid media.�
More recently, in December 2024, he reshared a message targeting pro-Israel Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro � a Democrat and a Jew � implying Shapiro would �give a medal� to someone who killed a Gazan toddler.
Chaudhary apologized Sunday, saying the decade-old posts �do not reflect my current views.�
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In other news, reports indicate that Hitler appointed antisemites and Nazi sympathizers to his staff.
That does worry me. What does worry me, is WHY THE H IS HE IN THE USA??
The decade-old posts �do not reflect my current views.�
We have to suspect that such statements from the Mamdani camp are “taqiyya”.
“Taqiyya” is a term which refers to the right granted by Islam to Moslems who are allowed to use lies and deception to advance the power and domination of Islam over the “infidels”.