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The son of Hamas’s co-founder delivered a chilling warning about New York City’s socialist mayor-elect, describing Zohran Mamdani as a catastrophic figure who will “only succeed in one thing — burning the castle down” by functioning as a “Trojan horse” for what he identified as the Red-Green Alliance — a coordinated effort between radical communist and Islamist forces seeking to dismantle Western capitalism and fundamentally transform America’s largest city.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Mosab Hassan Yousef — the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, who broke with the terror group and later worked covertly with Israeli intelligence as “The Green Prince” — argued Mamdani’s election marks more than a local shift: it signals a coordinated takeover of New York’s government by an alliance of radical socialists and stealth Islamist networks that financed his rise and will now demand their return.
“How can somebody who’s pro-disorder, pro-chaos, be trusted with ruling one of the most advanced cities in the West?” Yousef asked. “Now, here’s what’s more dangerous about Mamdani. Mamdani is only a Trojan horse.”
The son of Hamas explained that Mamdani embodies what he called the Red-Green Alliance — a tactical collaboration between socialist/communist forces and Islamist networks united by a goal to dismantle Western liberal democracy and undermine the Jewish state.
“Mamdani identifies as a socialist — communism rebranded — while embracing Islamist ideology,” Yousef said. “These twin ideologies represent catastrophic failures wherever they’ve been implemented.”
Hamas Insider: ‘He Wants to Globalize the Intifada’
Yousef said Mamdani’s exploitation of identity politics is a key warning sign.
“The fact that he uses the Muslim victim card is another angle that tells me a lot about this person — making up stories that never happened, promoting chaos rebranded as ‘Intifada,’” Yousef said. “He wants to globalize the Intifada.”
Just weeks before the election, after Mamdani faced criticism for campaigning alongside Imam Siraj Wahhaj — a radical Brooklyn cleric named by prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing — he was called out for falsely claiming that his “hijab-wearing aunt” feared for her safety after 9/11, a story later shown to be untrue, as the woman was actually his father’s second cousin.
Wahhaj has preached that homosexuality is a “disease” and once called for an “army of 10,000 men” to wage a gun-free jihad through New York City. Mamdani defended the imam, praising him as “one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century.”
Wahhaj is also the same extremist figure antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour — Mamdani’s longtime political mentor — has described as her “mentor and motivator.”
Mamdani’s political identity has long revolved around the Palestinian cause — a theme he describes as “central to my identity.” He co-founded Students for Justice in Palestine at Bowdoin College, has supported the BDS movement since 2014, and praised the “Holy Land Five,” directors of a charity convicted of funding Hamas, in a 2017 rap song.
Post-election polling showed 83% of Mamdani’s voters cited the Palestinian issue as their primary motivation. His campaign deliberately leaned into it, making it the centerpiece of their strategy — with informal adviser Patrick Gaspard acknowledging that Mamdani’s Israel/Gaza views were the gateway before discussing other policies.
The former Hamas operative dismissed Mamdani’s central campaign promise as economically impossible and deliberately deceptive.
“To promise the masses that New York is going to become affordable — I don’t know how this is even possible. It’s a very expensive city,” Yousef said. “For somebody to just throw promises at the public, I think he’s selling people fish in the sea.”
He characterized the mayor-elect as fundamentally unqualified: “I don’t trust this person who doesn’t have experience in this field and has radical ideals but no realism — that’s a very dangerous person.”
Yousef cautioned that Mamdani’s attempt “to bring two failing models — the communist model and the Islamic model — to challenge capitalism, which is the ideology that made New York what it is — is very dangerous.”
He added a sharper comparison: “Look at the Islamic countries — they can build tall towers and grand skylines, but they can never recreate New York’s freedom or America’s spirit…. That’s what Mamdani’s socialist model would destroy.”
“What makes Western civilization and American culture unique,” Yousef emphasized, “is not measured by how impressive the buildings are, or how affordable or how expensive. It’s about the freedom of the people who built it.”
The Red-Green Alliance: What Do They Want in Return?
The son of Hamas pointed to recently surfaced information about the mayor-elect’s campaign funding as evidence of coordination between radical leftist and Islamist groups.
“By supporting groups like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood — and just look, things recently started surfacing that CAIR, which is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, has been funding his campaign — so what do they want in return once they are in power?” Yousef asked pointedly.
Campaign-finance records show the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), through its Unity and Justice Fund, contributed $120,000 to the largest PAC supporting Mamdani.
CAIR is under congressional investigation for alleged Hamas ties and was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a 2008 terrorism-financing case. Linda Sarsour, who has mentored Mamdani politically since 2017, said at a CAIR conference last Wednesday that “Muslim money” funded his rise — and vowed to “hold him accountable” from outside City Hall to ensure he delivers on radical promises.
Newly exposed DSA documents outline plans to pressure Mamdani once in office to advance an anti-Israel agenda — echoing Sarsour’s vow to “hold him accountable.”
Yousef reiterated the ideological danger, calling Mamdani “a man with no experience and a confused vision of the city — a toxic brew.”
If one could peer inside his mind, Yousef said, they would find “a mixture of dangerous ideologies that contradict the American way of life and its capitalist foundation.”
The former Hamas member said Mamdani’s real function is to serve as a vehicle for the wider Red-Green alliance — a convergence of communist and Islamist forces working to undermine the United States.
“This is exactly what’s happening in New York,” Yousef explained. “His Democratic Socialist agenda is fused with a network of stealth Islamist allies who financed his rise. Together they aim to sabotage capitalism, weaken America, and push it into the backseat instead of leading the world.”
He cautioned that the more he studied Mamdani, the more catastrophic he appeared. “The more I learn about this individual who poses as a savior, the more I see how dangerous his ideas are,” Yousef said. “As mayor, he’ll bring New York to a place we won’t even recognize.”
Asked about the liberal voters who elected Mamdani, Yousef said many don’t grasp what they’ve empowered.
“We are a democracy, so whatever the people decide, we have to respect it,” he said. “But many may not realize the consequences of voting for such a confused individual filled with resentment toward New York’s Jewish minority.”
The Hamas insider pointed to Mamdani’s rhetorical sleight of hand on antisemitism.
“He says his hatred is not for Jews but for Zionists — a clever disguise to convince the public he isn’t antisemitic,” Yousef noted. “But at his core, he backs jihadists and validates the barbarism committed against Israel.”
Yousef also called Mamdani’s affordable-housing pledge a scam. “He knows he can’t deliver it,” Yousef said. “It’s not up to him — it’s just the reality of New York City. He’s scamming the public and the poor-minded people.”
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