Since the final days of the Democratic primary, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani had been dogged by criticism that he didn’t appreciate the implications of the pro-Palestinian slogan “globalize the Intifada.”
But at a meeting with a room full of prominent city business leaders Tuesday afternoon, the Democratic nominee pledged to discourage use of the phrase — while still supporting the ideas behind it.
Kathy Wylde, head of the influential Partnership for New York City business group, said Mamdani shared a story about a Jewish New Yorker who had told him the phrase triggered fear of violence. The nominee said he did not want to be seen as endorsing violence, and explained that he associated the phrase with anticolonialism…