{"id":979003,"date":"2026-08-04T00:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/979003\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:55:14","slug":"some-9-11-families-defend-mayor-mamdanis-inclusion-at-upcoming-remembrance-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/979003\/","title":{"rendered":"Some 9\/11 families defend Mayor Mamdani’s inclusion at upcoming remembrance ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some 9\/11 families are defending New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inclusion in this year’s solemn remembrance ceremony after an online petition asked he not attend<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The focus should be on where are we in this world, 25 years later?” Elizabeth Miller said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miller’s father was killed in the 9\/11 terror attacks nearly a quarter-century ago. She’s been attending the annual remembrance ceremony in Lower Manhattan since, and is now nearly the age he was when he died.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Year after year, mayors, presidents and politicians on both sides of the aisle have paid their respects at the ceremony<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Mayor Mamdani has assured 9\/11 families that he wants to be there to honor our loved ones, and I think he should be allowed to do that,” Miller said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miller is speaking out after an online petition garnered more than 72,000 signatures from the public asking ceremony organizers to carefully consider Mamdani’s participation this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two petitioners whose spouses were killed in the attacks told CBS News New York’s Lisa Rozner last week that their concern stems from the mayor’s public positions and rhetoric.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We felt that having Mamdani there would show a disrespect to our family members because of the people he supports,” Giovanni Galante told Rozner. Galante’s wife died on 9\/11.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miller is the project director of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, which has over 250 members. In a statement, that organization responded, in part, “We strongly condemn the anti-American accusations and Islamophobic sentiment underlying the effort seeking to prevent him from being at Ground Zero.”<\/p>\n

“Clearly calling for the\u00a0mayor of New York City to skip the 9\/11 memorial because he’s a Muslim, or because these guilt-by-association smears, is anti-Muslim bigotry, plain and simple,” said Edward Ahmed Mitchell of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mamdani has reaffirmed his commitment to attend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders forever impacted by that horrific terror attack by standing alongside them,” Mamdani said last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miller said she hopes this debate does not overshadow the true reason they’re all there.<\/p>\n

“The focus really shouldn’t be on who’s there, who’s not there,” Miller said. “It should be on our loved ones.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the 9\/11 Memorial and Museum said, in part, “we have intentionally worked to keep the commemoration free of politics because remembering those we lost on 9\/11 should never be a partisan issue.”<\/p>\n

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