AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF THE ISSUANCE OF A WARRANT FOR THE ARREST OF ZOHRAN MAMDANI

I, Mark P Cohen, declare:

I am a writer, lawyer, Jew, Zionist, and Golden State Warriors fan, born in Brooklyn (which gives me jurisdiction) and currently residing in Jerusalem (which gives me authority). I have come into possession of the following information that justifies the arrest of Zohran Mamdani, the current mayor of New York City, for being a hateful, antizionist, antisemitic schmuck whose words and actions endanger the lives of Jews and non-Jews:

The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), is inherently antizionist and antisemitic and encourages violence against Jews. Mamdani has supported BDS since at least 2014. In his own coded words, “My support for BDS is consistent with the core of my politics, which is nonviolence. And I think that it is a legitimate movement when you are seeking to find compliance with international law.”

In 2013, while a student at Bowdoin College, Mamdani co-founded Students for Justice in Palestine, a virulently antizionist organization that has condoned the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks. According to the executive summary of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs study, SJP’s “founders, financial patrons and ideological supporters have been linked to Islamist and Palestinian terror organizations such as Hamas, Hizbullah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).”

In 2016, referring to his Israeli high school teacher, Mamdani made the antisemitic, antizionist statement that he “tailed brown guys for a long time. He’s good at it” because he was a “graduate of the IDF.” Mamdani’s antisemitic and antizionist beliefs did not change over time. In 2023, Mamdani made the antisemitic and antizionist assertion that “we have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck it’s been laced by the IDF” (referring to the Israel Defense Force).

In 2017, Mamdani expressed and affirmed his antizionist hate and affinity for Hamas supporters in a rap song he wrote in which he praised the Holyland Five. The Holyland five—Shukri Abu Baker, Mohammad El-Mezain, Ghassan Elashi, Mufid Abdulqader and Abdulrahman Odeh—the heads of the now-defunct Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and........

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