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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Alice Speri

Israel is playing an outsized role in New York City’s mayoral race. Will it matter?

a composite image showing a man speaking into a microphone with a sign attached to it that reads 'Biden you are starving Gaza permanent ceasefire now' and a man walking in a parade while holding an Israeli flag
Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo. Composite: CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images, EuropaNewswire via Alamy

Speaking from a Jerusalem bomb shelter last week as Iran and Israel exchanged fire, a New York state senator posted a video message to New York City voters: “There is a mayoral primary coming up this week where one of the candidates does not believe the Jewish state has a right to exist,” said Sam Sutton, the senator from Brooklyn. “We don’t want to be in a situation like this in America.”

Sutton called on New Yorkers to elect a “great friend of the Jewish people”: Andrew Cuomo, New York’s former governor.

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