With Zohran Mamdani now solidifying his double-digit lead in NYC’s mayor race, his pro-terrorist rap singing is getting new attention.
News reports in June first uncovered a rap by the 2014 Bowdoin grad singing his praises for the Holy Land Five, a group of operatives convicted for fundraising on behalf of Hamas.
But a widely followed X poster is bringing it up again, aghast no one made an issue out of Mamdani’s dangerous racism.
“My love to the Holy Land Five / You better look ’em up,” was the Mamdani rap.
“The media was busy with breathless coverage of Mamdani’s viral rap, then surging on streaming charts,” writes Ashley Rindsberg, editor of Neutral POV. “Had they dug just a bit, they would have encountered one remarkably obvious, but no less disturbing question:
“What 25-year-old rapper gives a shout out to the criminally convicted president, chairman, top fundraiser, and NJ regional head of a terror-linked 501(c)3?”
The “Holy Land 5” refers to five former leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, once the largest Muslim charity in the United States.
In 2008, the five Palestinian-American men were convicted of funneling millions of dollars to Hamas, which the U.S. government designated a terrorist organization in 1995.
Mamdani, a Muslim, never apologized for – nor even distanced himself from – his Holy Land Five shout-out, according to Rindsberg.
Rindsberg is senior editor at Pirate Wires, an online – some say conservative – media company. On X, he promotes his journalism aimed at Wikipedia, which he calls a left-wing propaganda machine, and on Substack he describes himself as “an investigative journalist and author focused on media malfeasance, information warfare, and the hidden systems influencing public discourse.”
But it’s Mamdani’s escape from accountability that has Rindsberg riled up at the moment. So he’s trying to bring attention to the candidate’s reality.
The latest political polls show socialist Mamdani with a double-digit lead over disgraced Democrat former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the upcoming New York City mayoral race.
Cuomo, who lost the primary to Mamdani but claims he could still win the general race as an indie if Republican legendary Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa would drop out, repeatedly portrays the ex-Bowdoin grad as a political neophyte.
In reality, Mamdani has been honing his political skills since he was attending the Brunswick, Maine College.
While at Bowdoin, he founded Students for Justice In Palestine, in 2013, as part of his larger campaign against what he called campus “white supremacists.”
As an undergrad, he also co-authored an article in the Bowdoin Orient in 2014 that supported the American Studies Association’s decision to join an academic boycott of Israeli institutions.
Mamdani argued that Israeli universities were complicit in the alleged actions of the Israeli military and government.
