{"id":976250,"date":"2026-08-02T18:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/976250\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:56:13","slug":"israels-nyc-consul-general-says-mayor-is-antisemitic-with-fake-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/976250\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel’s NYC Consul-General says mayor is antisemitic with fake smile"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> is an antisemite hiding behind a fake smile, Israel’s Consul-General in New York City, Ofir Akunis, accused in an interview with CBS News on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“He is saying, I will ensure the security of the Jewish community in New York. How will you do it if you are saying that Israel is responsible for a genocide in Gaza?” Akunis said. “This is a disgusting lie, Mr. mayor. You know that there is no genocide in the Gaza Strip.”<\/p>\n

Akunis also condemned Mamdani<\/a> for using the word “monsters” to describe the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the influential pro-Israel lobby group in the United States.<\/p>\n

“It’s the same word that the Germans, that the Nazi<\/a> regime used against the Jewish community,” Akunis said.<\/p>\n

The consul-general finished the interview by warning the United States, saying that he was a big admirer of the country.<\/p>\n

“It’s very emotional to me to see the American flag right here in the streets of Manhattan,” he stated. “I don’t want to see them force the Sharia laws<\/a> on you. You must stop them now before it will be too late for you.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an antisemite hiding behind a fake smile, Israel’s Consul-General in New…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":976251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[110582,5229,12648,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,391857,119114,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":["post-976250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aipac","tag-america","tag-antisemitism","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-ofir-akunis","tag-sharia-law","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117027444293974517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/976251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}