Radio host Sid Rosenberg unleashed a blistering attack on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a Saturday appearance on Fox News, accusing the far-left Democrat of embracing extremist ideology and endangering Jewish New Yorkers.
The clash followed Mamdanis recent boast that his administration was exploring whether he could order police to detain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the Israeli leader visits New York in September for the United Nations General Assembly, as reported by Gateway Pundit. In an appearance on The New York Times podcast *The Interview*, Mamdani declared that Netanyahu belongs in the Hague, branding him a war criminal in light of charges brought by the International Criminal Court over the Gaza conflict.
That rhetoric drew a sharp response from President Donald Trump, who stated that Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America. Netanyahu, speaking on Rosenbergs own radio program, went further, asserting that Mamdani is aligned with the terror actors.
Mamdani has long cultivated an aggressively anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian profile, frequently adopting positions that critics say veer into open hostility toward Jews and open sympathy for Islamist movements. His latest posture has prompted growing concern that he is edging toward support for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.
Rosenberg, a prominent New York radio personality, did not temper his language when asked about the mayor on Fox News.
People are very nice people, but trying to talk to Mayor Mamdani is like trying to talk to the IRGC, okay? This guy is a terrorist. That's the bottom line. I'll say it. You don't want to say it. I'll say it. He's a terrorist. He's a jihadist. He hates the Jewish people. He hates America. He hates the Italian people. He hates the Irish people. He hates the German people. Unless you're Muslim, Mayor Mamdani has no use for you."
Rosenberg went on to accuse Mamdani of fueling a climate of hatred that has real-world consequences on New Yorks streets.
"He is a horrible person and maybe has perpetrated the worst American and Jewish hate in the history of this country. Those two people stabbed the other day in the Upper East Side of New York City. That blood is on his hands. That blood is on your hands, Mayor Mamdani."
The host argued that Mamdanis presence in office represents a profound moral and political failure for the city. "We got to find a way to get this guy out of here. Maybe Dr. Naomi Wolf is right. Maybe that election wasn't what it looked like on paper. Maybe he really didn't win. But either way, this guy is the worst thing to happen to New York politics, maybe in the history of our state."
Rosenberg then dispensed with any remaining niceties.
"He's a lowlife."
Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins, clearly uneasy with the severity of Rosenbergs charges, attempted to rein him in on air.
"I mean, I think you may be a bit over your skis in calling him, labeling him a terrorist, and you're probably getting flagged."
Jenkins tried to shift the focus to the voters who put Mamdani in office, suggesting that his radicalism was hardly a secret.
"But let me ask you this, because the New Yorkers elected this guy. They knew everything about him before. Like, this is predictable. You talk about predictability. This is a predictable"
Rosenberg, however, refused to back down and drew a comparison to Hamas leadership abroad. "Let me ask you this. The Hamas guys that are in Qatar right now, they've never put on a bullet excuse me, an explosive vest. They've never shot anybody. Would you consider those guys terrorists? Because I would."
He argued that terrorism is defined as much by ideology as by direct violent action. "Okay, so his ideologies are in line with the terrorists."
Rosenberg then broadened his critique to include radical activists on American campuses. "Mahmoud Khalil is a campus terrorist. You don't have to kill somebody to be a terrorist. You have to share the ideology."
For Rosenberg, that shared worldview is what makes Mamdani so dangerous in a position of power. "That's what this guy is. He's no better than the person who actually goes and shoots somebody because he respects that person. He likes that person. That makes him one of them."
The exchange underscores a growing divide in American politics: on one side, progressive officials willing to demonize Israel and flirt with anti-Western narratives; on the other, conservatives warning that such rhetoric emboldens extremists and abandons Americas closest Middle Eastern ally. As Netanyahu prepares for a possible visit to New York, the question is no longer just whether a radical mayor will try to grandstand, but whether voters will continue to tolerate leaders whose sympathies appear closer to the terror actors than to the citizens they were elected to protect.
Login