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MSNBC Host Pastor Al Sharpton New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani needs to meet with Jewish leaders to express support for his community after repeatedly refusing to condemn anti-Israel slogans.
In the MSNBC group, Sharpton said he did not believe in the democratic socialist Mamdani, Practice Muslimshas diseases for any disease in the Jewish community. But, he said Mamdani needs to clarify the term “globalization” he ran for mayor after winning the Democratic primary last week.
“He is running for mayor of New York. You need to take off the table, ‘Do you support the international uprising?’ period.
Kirsten Gillibrand Mori urges Zohran Mamdani to condemn the rhetoric of “globalization uprising”
New York City Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani raised her hand with Reverend Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network at a Saturday, June 28, 2025 at the Nan House of Note event in the Harlem community in New York. (Bloomberg/Contributor)
MSNBC Host Joined Mamdani At a National Action Network rally in Harlem on Saturday, a civil rights nonprofit founded by Sharpton in the early 1990s. The two also held a closed meeting together.
Their interaction was at Mamdani on NBC’s “See the media“Sunday refused to condemn the phrase,” the globalization uprising, “the Palestine slogan is widely seen as a call for violent revolution in the state of Israel.
“You condemn the sentence, ‘Do you have a global uprising?'” Kristen Welker greeted the candidate “Meet the Media.”
“That’s not the language I use,” Mandani replied. “The language I use and the language I will continue to use to lead the city is a clear statement of my intention, which is based on the belief in universal human rights.”
New York City Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani rolled her sleeves during a campaign in New York on Monday, June 23, 2025. He won the Democratic primary last week. Photographer: Adam Gray/Bloomberg by Getty Images (Adam Gray/Bloomberg)
Sharpton said on MSNBC that when he met with Mamdani, he did not see evidence that the candidate was anti-Semitic, but he did need to condemn the statement.
He said: “Well, I think he definitely condemned from his verbal anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, but let’s deal with it directly. Let’s not surround this issue. We’re not talking about something subtle here.”
The host brought the case from his own experience, saying that he was summoned out of taking offensive language seriously early in his career as an activist and had to change. Sharpton is severely criticized Coretta Scott King His remarks on Jews surrounding the turmoil in the Crown Heights of New York in the early 1990s.
“I remember 20 and 30 years ago. What I said – nothing like endorsing violence – but it was offensive to Jews, offensive to homosexuals. Mrs. CorettaScott King – the widow of Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, said to me, ‘Al, you can’t speak easily.’ I said, “But I’m just jingling.” ” “No, you can’t do it. ”
Sharpton then supports it Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s view is that Mamdani should meet with the city’s famous Jewish figures.
“Secondly, I agree with Jonathan. He should meet with the Jewish community, and I think he will.”
Nor will Mamdani condemn the phrase “uprising” in a separate interview with Fortress Tim Miller before the primary election Late. Kirsten GillibrandDN.Y and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y.
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Mamdani’s team did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
