{"id":2635680,"date":"2026-07-26T12:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netanyahu-says-mamdani-celebrated-oct-7-massacre\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:24:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:24:55","slug":"netanyahu-says-mamdani-celebrated-oct-7-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netanyahu-says-mamdani-celebrated-oct-7-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu says Mamdani &#8216;celebrated&#8217; Oct. 7 massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnetanyahu-says-mamdani-celebrated-oct-7-massacre%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2635680&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of celebrating the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre of Israelis, describing Mamdani\u2019s statements as fostering hate and supporting Hamas terrorists. Netanyahu remarked on Fox News that Mamdani&#8217;s speech, which criticized Israel and labeled Netanyahu a war criminal, was akin to cheering on the violence. Netanyahu also condemned Mamdani for allegedly supporting those responsible for horrific acts against jews, including rape, beheading, and genocide threats, asserting that Israel faces accusations of genocide from its enemies, not Mamdani. Mamdani, who previously criticized Israel for its policies towards Palestinians and did not support the attack, emphasized that Israel\u2019s actions following the attack could escalate violence and suffering, and his statements focused more on Israeli government rhetoric than on Hamas\u2019s actions. Netanyahu further accused Mamdani of inciting hate, claiming his remarks increased fears among the Jewish community in New York and linking them to recent violent incidents against Jews. The confrontation underscores ongoing tensions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and differing responses to the October 7 attack.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"219\">Israeli<\/a> Prime Minister <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/benjamin-netanyahu\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"378\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> claimed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani \u201ccelebrated\u201d Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Israelis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking in a Sunday appearance on Fox News, Netanyahu addressed Mamdani\u2019s video address on X, during which he derided the prime minister as a war criminal and called for him to be arrested if he entered the U.S.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4663747\/netanyahu-mamdani-oct-7-fomenting-hate-israel\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Netanyahu says Mamdani \u2018celebrated\u2019 Oct. 7, \u2018fomenting hate\u2019 with Israel criticism<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4663701\/manhunt-germany-berlin-pride-van-ramming\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Manhunt underway after Berlin Pride van-ramming kills one and injures 16<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4663641\/van-drives-into-crowd-berlin-lgbt-event\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>At least one dead and 16 injured after van drives into crowd at Berlin LGBT event<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe celebrated the Oct. 7 massacre, the worst massacre against Jews since the Holocaust,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s basically supporting. He tries to say that he doesn\u2019t, but he\u2019s supporting the Hamas murderers who raped our women, then beheaded them, burned babies alive, slaughtered our men, took innocent people hostages \u2014 251 men, women, children, babies. That\u2019s who he\u2019s supporting, and they\u2019re the ones who are responsible for genocide,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey would have killed, as their charter says, and as they themselves proclaim, they would have killed every single Jew in Israel and every Jew in the world. So the genocide charge belongs to our enemies,\u201d Netanyahu added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mamdani has repeatedly accused the Israeli government of genocide and upholding an apartheid system but hasn\u2019t voiced support for the Oct. 7 attack. In his first statement on the matter on Oct. 8, 2023, when he was still a New York Assembly Member, Mamdani said he \u201cmourn[s] the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last 36 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His statement was noted for its focus on the Israeli government\u2019s rhetoric and consequences for Palestinian civilians in Gaza rather than Hamas\u2019s massacre itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNetanyahu\u2019s declaration of war, the Israeli government\u2019s decision to cut electricity to Gaza, and Knesset members calling for another Nakba will undoubtedly lead to more violence and suffering in the days and weeks to come,\u201d Mamdani added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His statements on the anniversary of Oct. 7 were similar, mourning the losses of both Israelis and Palestinians while focusing his criticism on Israel. Notably, his statements never invoked or praised the \u201cPalestinian resistance,\u201d unlike the Democratic Socialists of America, which he is a part of.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4663422\/khanna-echoes-mamdani-call-arrest-benjamin-netanyahu\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"4663422\">KHANNA ECHOES MAMDANI\u2019S CALL TO ARREST BENJAMIN NETANYAHU<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After his claim about Mamdani celebrating the Oct. 7 massacre, Netanyahu accused the mayor of \u201cfomenting hate\u201d with his speech against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s supposed to be the mayor of all New Yorkers \u2014 Jews, Christians, Muslims, everyone. But he\u2019s trying to turn one group against the other, and he\u2019s fomenting hate and fear,\u201d Netanyahu said. \u201cI speak to Jewish Americans in New York, and they\u2019re afraid right now. And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s accidental that after he made this hate speech against Israel and against me, the next day, a Jew is stabbed coming out of a synagogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netanyahu accuses NYC Mayor Mamdani of celebrating Hamas attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2635681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-collage-kmcfmfufu-1784403928480-e1784572126118.jpg?1784728593&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[56552,43212,6524,83219],"class_list":["post-2635680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-mamdani","tag-middle-east-politics","tag-netanyahu","tag-october-7-massacre"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-collage-kmcfmfufu-1784403928480-e1784572126118.jpg?1784728593&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635683,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635680\/revisions\/2635683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2635681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}