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Mamdani to take extended Africa trip amid campaign for mayor of New York
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Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani unapologetically announced an extended trip to Africa on Sunday while he campaigns to lead America’s largest city.
Mamdani, who defeated Andrew Cuomo by more than 12 percentage points last month, securing the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City, released a video anticipating criticisms of his trip to Uganda.
In a defiant, yet playful tone, Mamdani called out what he said have been «thousands» of messages on X telling him to «go back to Uganda where you come from and belong» and «go back to Africa.»
«Being a politician means listening, not just to your supporters, but your critics too,» Mamdani said. «And some of these critics – especially on a certain website – have been giving me consistent advice.»
«I hear you, and I agree. I’m going back to Uganda,» Mamdani said.
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Zohran Mamdani attends an endorsement event from Union DC 37 on July 15, 2025, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The mayoral hopeful said he was headed to Uganda «in a personal capacity» to celebrate his marriage to his wife, Rama, with their family and friends.
«I do want to apologize to the haters, because I will be coming back,» he said. Mamdani added in the accompanying X post that he’d be back «by the end of the month.»
Attempting to assert control over the narrative, Mamdani offered some imaginary headlines condemning his overseas travel.
«And since you will undoubtedly read about this trip in the New York Post, inshallah [Arabic for God willing], on the front page, here are a few of my humble suggestions for headlines,» Mamdani said, jabbing at the New York-based newspaper.
He proposed tabloid headlines including «M.I.A.? Mandani in Africa,» «Uganda Miss Me,» or «He’s Kampala-etely Crazy,» a reference to Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda.
Mamdani also suggested the headlines: «He Africa-n’t Be Serious!» and «Carl Kampalanile Investigates Mamdani» – a satirical take on the name of American investigative journalist Carl Bernstein, who uncovered the Watergate scandal.
«Zo-Running Away?» Mamdani said, offering one last imagined headline before the video showed himself and another campaign supporter waving to the camera and the screen fading to «Zohran for Mayor.»
Zohran Mamdani speaks at an endorsement event from Union DC 37 on July 15, 2025, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Mamdani holds dual U.S. and Ugandan citizenship. He was born in Uganda and was raised in South Africa until moving to New York City at age 7.
He owns four acres of undeveloped land in Jinja, Uganda, that’s valued between $150,000 and $250,000, the New York Post previously reported, citing Mamdani’s 2024 New York Legislative Ethics filing.
Despite this, resurfaced social media video shows Mamdani in the past has floated the «abolition of private property» – a principle of communism.
His mother is an acclaimed Indian American filmmaker. She reportedly owned a nearly $2 million New York City loft for about a decade before recently selling the property, according to the Post.
His father is a Columbia University professor who sits on the advisory council of an anti-Israel organization. The organization supports boycotts and sanctions of Israel, routinely accuses the Israeli government of committing «genocide,» and has expressed sympathy for suicide bombers.
Mamdani’s candidacy has sparked concern from the Jewish community, as he declined to condemn the term «globalize the intifada» – a stance he has since walked back while courting local business owners. Meanwhile, New York City college campuses, including Columbia University, have faced rising antisemitism and anti-Israel protests and encampments in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas terrorists in Israel.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani enter an elevator after a meeting in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 16, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Mamdani himself has defended BDS, or the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, saying at a May town hall that the anti-Israel movement «is consistent with my core of my politics, which is nonviolence.»
Critics of Mamdani have also condemned how he’s campaigned on socialist ideals, including government-run grocery stores and rent freezes, despite his wealthy upbringing.
Having won the Democratic mayoral primary, Mamdani has emerged as the frontrunner, and he is backed by progressives in Congress, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., have been more cautious with Mamdani.
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It’s extremely rare for candidates who win the Democratic mayoral primary to lose the November general election, but Mamdani still faces Cuomo, who formally declared his independent mayoral bid last week. Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams is also running as an independent, as is former federal prosecutor Jim Walden. «Guardian Angels» founder Curtis Sliwa is the Republican mayoral candidate.
Fox News’ Andrew Mark Miller, Cameron Cawthorne and Deirdre Heavy contributed to this report.
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Jewish leader predicts violent future for NYC residents if Mamdani wins in November: ‘Real concern’
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A New York City Jewish leader is speaking out about the possibility of a Zohran Mamdani term as mayor of New York City, telling Fox News Digital he is concerned about the safety of Jewish residents, as well as all New Yorkers.
Scott Feltman, executive vice president of the One Israel Fund, told Fox News Digital that the Jewish community in the country’s largest city is «not against» a Muslim or any person of faith running for office, but what they do oppose is candidates that «align themselves with nefarious actors» like Hamas or Hezbollah.
«He was just recorded at a local mosque where the Imam of that mosque has basically called for the death of IDF soldiers and praised the efforts of Hamas,» Feltman said. «So that’s what we’re opposed to, and it’s a very, very real serious concern.»
Feltman pointed to the rise of antisemitic attacks in recent years, particularly in New York City, which he says has «created a certain trepidation in the Jewish community and having this particular candidate now making such inroads» is a «real concern.»
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Fox News Digital spoke to One Israel Fund EVP about the rise of Zohran Mamdani in NYC. (Getty; Fox News Digital)
Two Israeli embassy staffers were killed in Washington, D.C., earlier this year by a man shouting «free Palestine» around the same time that an Egyptian man targeted a pro-Israel demonstration, killing one person and injuring several others, in Boulder, Colorado.
«I know that every single day I fear for my own staff knowing that our organization has been called out by this candidate, and we have no idea, you know, who’s following him and what their interests and what their actions may be. So it is a real serious concern.»
Mamdani, along with actress Cynthia Nixon, called out the One Israel Fund earlier this month in a post Feltman responded to with an article in American Thinker.
«When you go out and you align yourselves with terminology like globalize the intifada, which is basically a euphemism for kill Jews all over the world, that’s what it is, the intifada was basically a movement in Israel 25 years ago to destroy the state of Israel and didn’t discriminate against civilian or military personnel,» Feltman told Fox News Digital.
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Zohran Mamdani campaigns in New York City on April 16, 2025. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
«And when you want to globalize that, the messaging is very clear to the people who are listening and following and that has put many people in the Jewish community, if not all of us, on notice and has created the feeling of genuine concern. I’m concerned for New York City in general. It’s not just the Jewish community. His platform of defunding the police and basically offering all kinds of free things to people, which I don’t think he can even accomplish, even though he keeps doubling down on the rhetoric, but just defunding the police puts everyone here in jeopardy.»
Mamdani has been widely criticized for his initial failure to condemn the phrase «globalize the intifada», which many Jewish people view as a call for violence. Mamdani eventually walked back his initial reluctance by saying he discourages people from using the phrase and told business leaders he would not use it.
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Zohran Mamdani arrives for a news conference at Astoria Park in the Queens borough of New York, on June 24, 2025. (Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Feltman referred to Mamdani as a «social media darling» and complimented the way he has been able to mobilize voters but said, ultimately, while discussing his rise, that the education system has done a «tremendous injustice to our children, especially on the university level where we see antisemitism exploding exponentially.»
Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani’s campaign for comment.
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UN court rules wealthy nations pay up for climate change damages in controversial global ruling
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The United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday ruled that wealthy countries must comply with their commitments to curb fossil fuels and pollution or risk being held financially liable by nations hit the hardest by climate change.
The 15-member U.N. International Court of Justice said that treaties compel rich nations to curb global warming and that the countries were also responsible for the actions of companies under their jurisdiction or control, Reuters reported.
«States must cooperate to achieve concrete emission reduction targets,» Judge Yuji Iwasawa said at The Hague. «Greenhouse gas emissions are unequivocally caused by human activities which are not territorially limited.»
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Climate activists and campaigners demonstrate outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ahead of Wednesday’s opinion that will likely determine the course of future climate change at The Hague, Netherlands, July 23, 2025. (REUTERS/Marta Fiorin)
Failure to do so could result in «full reparations to injured states in the form of restitution, compensation and satisfaction provided that the general conditions of the law of state responsibility are met,» the report states.
In response to the ruling, White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox News Digital that «as always, President Trump and the entire Administration is committed to putting America first and prioritizing the interests of everyday Americans.»
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the court opinion affirms that Paris climate agreement goals need to be the basis of all climate policies.
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Tuvalu delegation arrives for the United Nations’ top court International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s public hearings in an advisory opinion case, that may become a reference point in defining countries’ legal obligations to fight climate change, in The Hague, Netherlands, December 2 2024. (REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo)
«This is a victory for our planet, for climate justice, and for the power of young people to make a difference,» he said. «The world must respond.»
Wednesday’s ruling was hailed by a number of small nation states.
«I didn’t expect it to be this good,» said Ralph Regenvanu, the climate minister for the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.
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Many developing nations and small island states have said they are at great risk from rising sea levels. Some have sought clarification from the court after the 2015 Paris Agreement failure to curb the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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