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I stood up to Zohran Mamdani’s rabid thug — and you can, too

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Beware, New Yorkers: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s got a cadre of humorless, hypersensitive goons on his side — and they’re all too willing to bully you for opposing him.

That’s what I learned Monday, when a bearded Hezbollah-supporting Mamdani stan confronted me on my commute home aboard an uptown 6 train. 

I’d hopped on at 51st Street and had just settled into my seat, closed my eyes, and pulled up my hoodie to listen to a podcast when I heard someone call my name. 

“Michael Benjamin. Michael Benjamin. I see you. You can’t hide.”

I opened my eyes to find a black-masked man standing over me, angrily shaking what looked like a pager in my face. 

It slowly occurred to me that this unhinged individual was calling me out for a post I’d made on X nearly two years ago, in October 2024, commenting on the party Mamdani threw to launch his mayoral campaign.

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“Is it true that no pagers were allowed?” I’d snarked — referring to Israel’s famous exploding-pager operation of the previous month.

“He writes for The New York Post and tweets about killing people,” the furious stranger announced to the........

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