New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani was slammed for his Gracie Mansion breakfast with Mahmoud Khalil and his family on a day that also marked the one-year anniversary of Khalil's detention. Mamdani said he and his wife Rama Duwaji were honored to welcome Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor and their son Deen to the mayor's residence to break the fast together. "Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City," Mamdani wrote as he posted a photo where Mahmoud Khalil can be seen at the breakfast table smiling.
"A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine," the NYC mayor posted.
