Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Rep. Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed when you called AIPAC “monsters who move dark money.”
Mamdani: “I want to be very clear.” He said the focus should be on the war, arguing that chi...
Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Rep. Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed when you called AIPAC “monsters who move dark money.”
Mamdani: “I want to be very clear.” He said the focus should be on the war, arguing that children are being killed daily and that more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire.
He also cited the death of Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Wishah, who he said was killed in an Israeli strike. (Israel has identified Wishah as a confirmed Hamas terrorist.)
Mamdani accused AIPAC of supporting “a status quo of immorality” and said the organization has opposed efforts to bring safety and stability to the region.
He added that AIPAC helps defend that status quo through political donations and, at times, through “dark money,” which he said is routed through outside groups whose donors are not fully disclosed until after elections.
“When we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place,” he said.
IDF: Ahmed Samir Muhammad Washah, a Hamas sniper operative who doubled as an Al Jazeera photojournalist, was killed in an airstrike in central Gaza today alongside two other operatives. The military says he had been planning sniper attacks against IDF troops. His brother Mohamed, also a Hamas operative and Al Jazeera employee, was killed in a strike in April.
The IDF says it killed a “key” Hamas operative in central Gaza who it claims worked as an Al Jazeera journalist, identifying him as Muhammad Washah.
The military says he was involved in rocket, drone and weapons production, and was actively planning attacks on Israeli troops, operating “under the guise” of a journalist.
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