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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s father, a longtime scholar and Ivy League professor, said in a 2022 panel discussion that Adolf Hitler drew inspiration for Abraham Lincoln.
The young Mamdani, a self-proclaimed socialist, believes his parents provided him with “privileged growth” which includes frequent discussions Political and global affairs, According to the New York Times, personal profiles about the mayoral candidate and his parents. Mamdani’s mother is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker.
In a 2022 panel discussion held by Asian society, Mahmood, Mandani’s father, asserted that the United States is the “original” of what is called “settler colonialism” around the world.
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“With the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln outlined the solutions to reserve, and they put American Indians on separate territory,” said Mandani, a professor in Herbert Lehman’s administration in Colombia. “For the Nazis, it was inspiration – Hitler realized two things: one thing, genocide was feasible. What Hitler realized was genocide. The second thing Hitler realized was that you don’t have to have a shared citizenship.”
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani stands with his mother Mira Nair and father Mahmood Mamdani at the Craft Lic great men’s party on June 24, 2025 in Queens, New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Elder Mandani also argued in his speech that racists and Anti-Semitic The Nuremberg laws in Nazi Germany were “made in accordance with American laws.”
Other comments include claiming that there is no difference between “nationalism and colonialism”, where the Allies during World War II had the same goals as the Nazis.
“The Nazi political project was shared by allies, and the political project was to turn Germany into a pure state. A pure state got rid of the minority.” “When the allies defeated the Nazis and entered Eastern Europe, they began to create ‘pure states. To clean Germany’s Eastern Europe racially – move them back to Germany. One crime does not eliminate the other.”
After political frustration in New York City’s democratic mayoral primary election, critics began to discover videos of young Mamdani espouse similar radical views.
One of these moments comes from the establishment of the New York City Mayor Candidate at the 2021 American Conference of Young Democratic Socialists, during which time Tell the attendees Don’t compromise on goals like “grab productivity.”

Zohran Mamdani raised her hand with Al Sharpton during a campaign at the Nan House House House in Harlem on Saturday, June 28, 2025. (Bloomberg/Contributor)
The second includes videos from Gravel Academy during which Mamdani Discussion The need to transform the house from private goods to public goods. In the video, he calls for the replacement of luxury apartments with public-style living, which includes shared laundry facilities and food co-ops.
“If we want to end the housing crisis, then the solution must move towards full housingization,” Mamdani urged in a video of the Gravel Academy.
Meanwhile, other remarks from Mamdani’s father have raised concerns about how the growth of the Democratic mayoral candidate affects his management style.
In an interview with his book Good Muslims, Bad Muslims: America, the roots of the Cold War and the Horror, the older Mamdani asserted that the term “suicide bomber” was a wrong person because they were no different from “soldiers”[s] The goal is to kill. ”

As part of the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, Zohran Mamdani, Mira Nair, Mahmood Mamdani and Nishant Tharani performed the world premiere at Disney’s “Katwe of Katwe” at Roy Thompson Hall. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images by Disney)
According to reports, Professor Mandani also believes that according to a study, the study records academic arguments shared by Washington’s free beacon, which is the “logical conclusion of Nazism” in Israel.
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Fox News Digital contacted Professor Mamdani and his son.

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