Going After New York’s Jews
The former Hamas operative warned that Mamdani’s ideology would inevitably turn against the city’s Jewish community.
“Worse still, he’s going after the Jews in New York — even if he doesn’t declare it outright,” Yousef said. “He’s taken the side of the Palestinians, the side of the jihadists, the side of Hamas — justifying their barbarism as ‘resistance.’”
Yousef posed a blunt question: “Will he have mercy on New York’s successful Jewish minority — a pillar of this city?” he asked.
“The Jewish contribution to New York is unmatched by any other group. Over a million Jews built the city’s culture — from Broadway and film to its creative and economic heartbeat. Remove that contribution, even over the last century — what would New York look like?”
Mamdani has repeatedly refused to affirm that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state.
He’s defended calls to “globalize the Intifada,” vowed to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as mayor, and declined to call for Hamas to disarm even after the October 7 massacre.
Yousef said Mamdani’s economic vision mirrors Marxist wealth redistribution that would erode New York’s success.
“He wants the successful, hardworking, creative people to pay the bills of those who haven’t earned it,” Yousef warned. “That’s the communist model — everyone equal, but no one driven.”
The son of Hamas dismissed Mamdani’s “Robin Hood” posturing.
“We don’t need leaders posing as saviors who claim to take from the rich and give to the poor,” he said. “He’ll only succeed in one thing — burning the castle down. He’d turn New York into another soulless city — communist or Islamist — where we might still have the skyline but we’d lose the freedom.”
Yousef warned Mamdani functions “as a Trojan horse for the communist and Islamist enemies to infiltrate the city — to reverse the American achievement and push America into the backseat.”
He added, “That’s exactly what the communists and Islamists around the world want — they don’t want America to remain the superpower.”
Yousef said many progressive voters remain blind to the larger strategy.
“Many liberals don’t see the bigger picture,” he said. “They voted for someone with no experience and shadowy ideologies — an idealist, not a realist.”
The London Warning: ‘This Is Their Playbook’
The Hamas insider pointed to Sadiq Khan’s tenure in London as a preview of where New York could head under Mamdani — a warning, not a model to emulate.
“The only way he’s going to manage to implement his socialist policies is through mismanagement,” Yousef warned. “The wealthy would bolt, he won’t be able to pay the city’s bills, and the city would drown in debt. The only rescue would be Arab oil money — the same way in London. This is how it plays out. This is their playbook.”
“This is the reality,” Yousef said. “Look at London — see what happened to a major Western city — and predict New York’s future if we follow that path.”
Khan even congratulated Mamdani in a Time op-ed, declaring, “Hope won” and drawing explicit parallels between their campaigns.
The former Hamas member warned that a London-style rescue would fundamentally change who controls New York: “If he seeks Arab oil money, he will force the Jewish creative minority out and replace them with a new 1% — sheikh oil money.”
“Best-case,” Yousef said, “he turns it into another Dubai — impressive skyline, but not New York’s freedom or soul. New York’s magic isn’t a price tag; it’s the people who built it.”
Hamas’s Death Cult and the Fabricated Palestinian Identity
Speaking with the authority of someone raised inside Hamas’s leadership, Yousef addressed liberal voters who backed Mamdani — many driven by pro-Palestinian sympathies — and urged them to grasp what they are actually endorsing.
“I don’t have a problem with New Yorkers or Americans showing their freedom as anti-war activists,” he said. “It’s natural, it’s healthy. When they see children dying in Gaza and feel anger, that’s totally understandable.”
But he urged them to understand the reality: “This is Hamas’s strategy — weaponizing civilians as human shields, glorifying martyrdom. Once American liberals understand that this is a death cult — built on promises of eternity and the sacrifice of children for political gain — their outlook will change.”
Drawing on his own experience inside Hamas, Yousef explained: “This is their strategy — long before Hamas, it was the PLO’s. Put children in harm’s way, endanger civilians on both sides, weaponize suffering for pity and power.”
He said Hamas engineered the current war deliberately: “Sinwar launched it from one of the most crowded places on earth, knowing what Israel’s response would be. It’s a trap — their double game — and many in the West fell for it.”
Despite the grim picture, Yousef insisted he still hopes Americans will learn the truth.
“This conflict isn’t about land — those claims of occupation or genocide are lies,” he said. “Israel is a democracy with Jews, Arabs, Muslims, and Druze who share equal rights. That’s the American model — not the Palestinian one built on victimhood, revenge, and barbarism like October 7.”
He continued bluntly:
“October 7 wasn’t resistance — it was just another lie,” Yousef stated firmly.
Yousef — the former Hamas insider — made clear his anger targets the leadership: “My rage is at Hamas, at the Palestinian Authority — at leaders who gambled with children’s futures for politics. They are reckless, they don’t care about Arab or Jewish children.”
In one of his most forceful statements, the former Hamas insider denounced the manufactured “Palestinian’ identity” — a narrative, he said, that Mamdani cynically exploits for political gain.
“If we really want to save Arab and Jewish children — they are Arab children, not ‘Palestinian’ children,” Yousef said. “‘Palestinian’ is a made-up identity, invented by con artists who sacrifice Arab children for power.”
Recalling his own upbringing, he said: “I was born an Arab. Then they told us we were Palestinians — but never said why. It’s a false identity, used by people like Mamdani to play the victim card for sympathy and power.”
He warned that once figures like Mamdani rise to power on such narratives, “Their true intentions come out. Once they win, they turn on the public. They can’t be trusted,” the former Hamas insider concluded.
Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.