The largest Muslim civil rights group in the U.S. on Tuesday was among those condemning the latest attacks from the Anti-Defamation League on New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, whom ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt this week accused of not reaching out to the city’s Jewish population.
On CNBC Monday, Greenblatt claimed Mamdani, a Democratic state assembly member who stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo by winning the primary in June by nearly eight points, has not visited “a single synagogue… one Jewish neighborhood” or “any of the mainstream Jewish institutions.”
A number of observers pointed to several instances in which Mamdani has visited Jewish centers and places of worship during his campaign, including attending Shabbat services in Brooklyn in February, taking part in a town hall with the Jewish Community Relations Council in May with the United Jewish Appeal Federation, and attending candidate forums at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in June.
That’s crazy….anyways here’s a picture of me and Zohran at B’nai Jeshurun during a forum organized by the major democratic clubs of the Upper West Side. https://t.co/Gcuk5a40Dopic.twitter.com/fChm1qS3Z7— Jacob Kimbarow (@JacobMKimbarow) August 18, 2025
Greenblatt later published a post about the interview on the social media platform X, saying this time that Mamdani had not visited Jewish synagogues or other communities since the primary in June—but Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, suggested the head of the ADL attacks Mamdani not for things he has or hasn’t done, but because many Jewish people have embraced him as their candidate of choice…