Ask each one of them what they think about BDS,” he advised activists who were then getting ready for the 2021 mayoral race, referring to the movement to boycott, divest and sanction Israel. “And not what they think about the right to engage in it,

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez endorses Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani the day after Mamdani refused to say he supports Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state in a debate with other mayoral candidates.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, earlier this year, stood as little more than another name in a crowded, notably progressive field looking to unseat incumbent Mayor Eric Adams.