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Mamdani won’t attend Israel Day Parade, breaking decades-long mayoral tradition amid antisemitism surge
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Democratic-Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City is being slammed by Jewish groups for his decision to miss the city’s historic Israel Day Parade. His decision comes as the Big Apple wrestles with record levels of antisemitism.
Home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, Jewish New Yorkers have long viewed the annual parade as one of the city’s clearest public displays of solidarity with both the Jewish state and the community. On Tuesday, two of the city’s most prominent Jewish organizations declined an invitation to a Jewish heritage event held at Gracie Mansion in response to Mamdani’s latest snub.
«Since the very first Israel Parade in 1964, every single sitting Mayor of New York City has joined in the festive celebrations. New York has historically been proud of its deep relationship with Israel. Not joining the parade is an affront to the history of New York City,» Moshe Davis, former Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism under Mayor Adams, told Fox News Digital.
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Marchers hold flags during the Celebrate Israel Parade on Fifth on June 2nd, 2024 in New York City. This year’s parade is the first since the events of Oct. 7, 2023 in Israel and is focused around the hostages still being held in captivity by Hamas. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
Earlier this month Mamdani officially confirmed that he would not attend the event, despite soaring antisemitism in New York City and weeks of anti-Israel demonstrations outside synagogues and Jewish communal institutions across the city. Parade, organizers say the event on May 31st is expected to draw record turnout in response to Mamdani’s snub.
While the mayor had previously indicated during an Oct. 2025 interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he would likely not attend as a matter of political principle, his renewed public confirmation has led to growing criticism.
Fox News Digital reached out to Mayor Mamdani’s office regarding the criticism from Jewish leaders over not attending the parade and were referred by his spokesman to a statement he had given to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Pro-Palestinian protestors try enter the Brooklyn Museum, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, May 31, 2024. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
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«I look forward to joining and hosting many community events celebrating Jewish life in New York and the rich Jewish history and culture of our city. While I will not be attending the Israel Day Parade, my lack of attendance should not be mistaken for a refusal to provide security or the necessary permits for its safety. I’ve been very clear: I believe in equal rights for all people everywhere. That principle guides me consistently.»
Community leaders say the decision breaks with decades of bipartisan tradition in a city where participation in the parade has long been viewed as both symbolic and expected.
Democratic New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is once again raising eyebrows, this time over a resurfaced clip in which he says, «Israel is not a place, it is not a country.» (REUTERS/Jeenah Moon and iStock)
Despite the mayor declining the invitation, New York Governor Kathy Hochul spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital that she will participate in the parade.
Organizers say this year’s event is expected to feature more marching groups than ever before, driven not only by support for Israel but also by concern over rising antisemitism.
One person associated with the parade told Fox News Digital the event is expected to be «safer at the parade than in your own home,» citing extensive security coordination surrounding this year’s march.
Still, much of the conversation surrounding the parade has centered on Mamdani’s absence.
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During his mayoral campaign, Mamdani suggested he would likely «miss a lot» of New York City’s traditional parades due to his political views, while evaluating appearances «case-by-case.»
The then New York City Mayor Eric Adams marches up 5th Avenue in Midtown during the Israel Parade on June 4, 2023 in New York City. (ohn Lamparski/Getty Images)
Critics argue the Israel Day Parade is not simply another political event, but a longstanding civic tradition closely tied to New York City’s Jewish identity and history.
«The Israel Day Parade is a testament to one of New York City’s most important relationships. From healthcare to technology to innovation, Israel and New York City are partners in building a better future. I want every New Yorker to join the Parade on Fifth Avenue because celebrating this bond isn’t just for the Jewish community, it’s for our entire city,» former Mayor of New York City Eric Adams told Fox News Digital.
Anti-Israel activists protest outside the United Nations headquarters in New York, on April 7, 2025. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The controversy surrounding Mamdani has also widened beyond the parade itself, with the UJA Federation of New York and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York declining to attend his first Jewish Heritage event for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Shavuot at Gracie Mansion, stating they would not participate in an event hosted by a mayor who «denies the core pillar of our heritage, the State of Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people.»
At the event, Mamdani acknowledged the scale of antisemitism facing the city’s Jewish population, stating, «Jewish New Yorkers, accounting for just nearly 12% of our city’s population, are also the targets of more than 50% of all hate crimes.»
He also announced a proposed $26 million annual investment toward expanding hate crime prevention efforts under the city’s Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes. Details of the proposal were not clear at how he would tackle antisemitism at time of publication.
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Ambassador Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, Trump’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, told Fox News Digital when asked about Mamdani’s position that, «It is important we recognize the need for leaders to uphold their responsibility to protect religious freedom and refrain from making incendiary comments that contribute to the rise of antisemitism. Leaders who fail to do so bear responsibility for the increase in antisemitic activity.»
This year’s parade is also expected to feature expanded interfaith participation. In a first for the event’s 61-year history, some Muslim groups are slated to march alongside Jewish organizations, in addition to expanded participation from Asian American groups and others.
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El Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos acusó por homicidio al ex dictador cubano Raúl Castro
Estados Unidos imputó al exdictador cubano Raúl Castro por el derribo de dos avionetas civiles en 1996, en una escalada sin precedentes de la presión de la administración Trump contra el régimen comunista de la isla.
El Departamento de Justicia (DOJ) presentó los cargos —asesinato, conspiración para matar a ciudadanos estadounidenses y destrucción de aeronaves— ante un tribunal federal del Distrito Sur de Florida. El fiscal general interino Todd Blanche realizó el anuncio en la Torre de la Libertad de Miami, símbolo de la comunidad cubana en el exilio.
“Por primera vez en casi 70 años, el liderazgo superior del régimen cubano ha sido acusado en este país, en los Estados Unidos de América, por actos de violencia que resultaron en la muerte de ciudadanos estadounidenses”, afirmó Blanche según documentos judiciales.
El 24 de febrero de 1996, dos cazas cubanos MiG persiguieron y derribaron dos avionetas desarmadas de Hermanos al Rescate —organización de pilotos exiliados con base en Miami que auxiliaba a balseros cubanos— sobre el estrecho de Florida. Las cuatro personas a bordo fallecieron: los ciudadanos estadounidenses Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre y Mario Manuel de la Peña, y el residente legal Pablo Morales. Un tercer aparato, en el que viajaba el líder del grupo, José Basulto, logró escapar.
La Organización de Aviación Civil Internacional (OACI) dictaminó que el incidente ocurrió en aguas internacionales, contradiciendo la postura de La Habana, que alegó que las aeronaves habían ingresado a su espacio aéreo y calificó a los aviadores de “terroristas”. Fidel Castro sostuvo en su momento que las fuerzas armadas actuaron bajo “órdenes permanentes” y negó que su hermano hubiera dado una instrucción específica para disparar.
Castro, que cumplirá 95 años el próximo mes, ejercía como ministro de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (FAR) al momento del incidente, lo que lo sitúa en la cúspide de la cadena de mando. La acusación formal también incluye a otros cinco militares cubanos presuntamente involucrados: Emilio José Palacio Blanco, José Fidel Gual Barzaga, Raúl Simanca Cárdenas, Luis Raúl González-Pardo Rodríguez y Lorenzo Alberto Pérez-Pérez.
Los anuncios se produjeron el 20 de mayo, fecha en que fue declarada la República de Cuba en 1902, tras la independencia de España y el fin de la ocupación militar estadounidense. La comunidad cubanoamericana de Miami se congregó frente a la Torre de la Libertad para la ceremonia oficial. “Todos esperamos durante mucho tiempo, durante muchos años, que esto sucediera”, declaró Bobby Ramírez, un músico de 62 años que abandonó Cuba en 1971.
El dictador cubano Miguel Díaz-Canel reaccionó en X afirmando que esa fecha significa “intervención, injerencia, despojo, frustración” en la historia de la isla. El régimen comunista prioriza en su narrativa otras fechas, como el triunfo de la Revolución el 1 de enero de 1959, argumentando que tras 1902 la isla permaneció bajo dominio de facto de Washington a causa de la Enmienda Platt.
Horas antes del anuncio judicial, el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio difundió un mensaje en video dirigido al pueblo cubano en el que ofreció “una nueva relación” con Washington y prometió USD 100 millones en alimentos y medicinas, a distribuir directamente a través de la Iglesia Católica u organizaciones caritativas. Rubio, de origen cubano, responsabilizó al liderazgo de la isla por la crisis energética que obliga a los cubanos a sobrevivir hasta 22 horas diarias sin electricidad.
“La verdadera razón por la que no tienen electricidad, combustible ni alimentos, es porque quienes controlan su país han saqueado miles de millones de dólares”, afirmó el secretario de Estado. Señaló además que Raúl Castro fundó hace tres décadas el conglomerado empresarial militar GAESA, que según Rubio genera ingresos tres veces superiores al presupuesto del régimen cubano actual y opera como “un Estado dentro del Estado”.
El canciller cubano Bruno Rodríguez calificó a Rubio de “vocero de intereses corruptos y revanchistas”, aunque no descartó aceptar la ayuda. “Sigue hablando de una ayuda de 100 millones de dólares que Cuba no ha rechazado, pero cuyo cinismo es evidente para cualquiera ante el efecto devastador del bloqueo económico”, escribió Rodríguez en X.
La imputación se enmarca en una ofensiva más amplia de la administración Trump contra Cuba. El presidente firmó el 29 de enero un decreto que amenaza con aranceles a los países que vendan petróleo a la isla, lo que derivó en un bloqueo de facto que dejó al país sin combustible para sus centrales eléctricas. La Habana reconoció que ya no cuenta con reservas para cubrir las necesidades cotidianas.
El lunes previo al anuncio, el Departamento del Tesoro incluyó en listas negras a los ministros cubanos de Justicia, Energía y Comunicaciones, a varios altos mandos militares y a toda la agencia de inteligencia de la isla. Díaz-Canel y Castro ya enfrentaban restricciones de viaje por sanciones anteriores.
El director de la CIA, John Ratcliffe, visitó recientemente La Habana y advirtió a sus interlocutores cubanos que Trump debía ser tomado en serio, citando el caso venezolano. La captura en enero del dictador venezolano Nicolás Maduro —aliado fundamental de Cuba— profundizó aún más la crisis económica y humanitaria de la isla. Trump amenazó en marzo con que Cuba “es la siguiente” tras Venezuela, mientras Díaz-Canel advirtió que cualquier acción militar estadounidense provocaría un “baño de sangre”.
Las autoridades estadounidenses no precisaron cómo ejecutarían una eventual operación para capturar a Castro ni cuántos años de prisión implicaría una condena máxima. El exmandatario apareció en público en Cuba a principios de mayo y no hay indicios de que haya abandonado la isla ni de que el régimen permita su extradición.
(Con información de AFP, EFE, Reuters y Bloomberg)
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President Donald Trump wants Senate Republicans to boot the upper chamber’s rules referee after security funding for his ballroom was nixed.
Trump pointed his fury on Wednesday at Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who holds a nonpartisan role that dictates what can and cannot make it through the budget reconciliation process.
Republicans are currently trying to ram through a $72 billion immigration enforcement funding package, but MacDonough over the weekend stripped out one of Trump’s major requests for $1 billion to in part pay for security enhancements to his colossal White House ballroom project.
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President Donald Trump walks to speak with reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on May 8, 2026. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)
«Shockingly, Republicans have kept the very important position of ‘Parliamentarian’ in the hands of a woman, Elizabeth MacDonough, who was appointed, long ago, by Barack Hussein Obama and a vicious Lunatic known as Senator Harry Reid, who ran the Senate for the Dumocrats with an ‘iron fist,’» Trump said on Truth Social.
«Over the years, she has been brutal to Republicans, but not so to the Dumocrats — So why has she not been replaced? There are many fair people who would be qualified for that vital job,» he continued.
But it’s not a move Republicans are keen to make, especially in retaliation for the ballroom security funding getting stripped out. Trump earlier this week privately pushed Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to axe MacDonough.
Thune said he wasn’t having any discussions on firing MacDonough, but noted that tempers flare against the parliamentarian «every time there’s a reconciliation.»
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«There are always people that are unhappy with some decisions that come down, and it’s kind of the nature of the beast. So, you know, we will work through the process and do our best to get the things that we want, you know, on the floor, later this week,» Thune said.
Still, Republicans are continuing to haggle over whether to include the security funding at all. Much of the money, about $600 million, would go to the Secret Service, while $220 million was intended to bolster security on the East Wing Modernization project.
Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, whose portion of the package contained the controversial funding, noted that the parliamentarian hasn’t just ruled against Republicans during reconciliation.
«I think the best answer to that is that the parliamentarian has demonstrated in the Biden administration with their recommendations, reconciliations that they didn’t get everything they wanted,» Grassley said.
Like Thune, other Republicans recognized that reconciliation is difficult, but not worth firing MacDonough over.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., spoke with reporters as he headed to the Senate chamber at the U.S. Capitol on March 12, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
«For what,» Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said when asked if MacDonough should go. «Does she have a DWI or something?»
It’s also not the first time that Republicans have called for MacDonough to be fired. Last year, after MacDonough stripped out provisions that would have caused steep cuts to Medicaid spending, a handful in the GOP demanded that she be replaced.
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Fox News Digital at the time that there was already a precedent in place to do it.
«In 2001, Majority Leader Trent Lott fired the Senate parliamentarian during reconciliation,» Marshall said.
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Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital that the true root cause of the issue was the 60-vote filibuster threshold.
Republicans took the reconciliation route because they couldn’t muster enough votes from Senate Democrats to smash through the threshold and fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without making steep concessions on immigration enforcement funding.
«We’re as likely to end the filibuster as we are to get rid of the parliamentarian, so you might as well put pressure on Republicans to address the root cause, which is the 60-vote threshold,» Johnson said.
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