By Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi
Emile Zola’s immortal J’Accuse was not merely an accusation against one man. It was an indictment of a political culture that had surrendered reason to prejudice, justice to a hateful ideology, and truth to falsehoods. More than a century later, the United States of America confronts a different but equally troubling question: What happens when elected officials employ rhetoric that the vast majority of American citizens reasonably perceive as legitimizing extreme hostility toward Jews, while invoking the language of historical justice steeped in an avalanche of lies.
The newly minted Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani’s fledgling political career has been born of the intellectual, moral, and political disorder that the United States of America in general, and the Democrat Party since the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama in particular have been subjected to by the all encompassing cult of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” and by the hateful desire for the subversion of all the laws of Democracy.
Yet, what really is at the bottom of Zohran Mamdani’s absolute hatred? Born in Kampala, Uganda, as the son of a political scholar Mahmood Mamdani and a filmmaker Mira Nair, the family moved permanently to New York City in 1998. He grew up in a multicultural, multi-faith household with a Muslim father and a Hindu mother. His formal education has been unremarkable, earning a bachelor’s degree in African Studies from Bowdoin College. These “global” roots have made him a born rebel with an unhealthy temperament, dominated by the unswerving spirit of contradictions. This youthful conundrum, in turn, has grown into a feeling of loneliness that has placed him in the personal vacuum of the proverbial no man’s land. Feverishly, he has been looking for his internal equilibrium by claiming that he alone possesses the truth, which has led him to the conviction that only he can grasp reality. From here, he has become the prisoner of a desperate kind of utopianism, which he has found in the destructive mixture of the global extremism of Islamism and Marxism. Yet, these kinds of unhealthy extremisms always enslave those who try to exercise them.
Based on these facts, I accuse Mayor Zohran Mamdani – not of committing crimes, for that is a matter for the courts applying established legal standards – but of something that may be even more corrosive to a constitutional democracy: abandoning the moral responsibility that is an essential part of public leadership. I accuse him of repeatedly employing language that, in the judgement of the overwhelming majority of American citizens, blurs the line between legitimate criticism of both the 250 years old American Republic and the over 70 years old State of Israel, which contributes to suspicion, alienation, or hostility toward both. I accuse him of treating mostly Jewish fears of rising Anti-Judaism with inhumane Islamic arrogance at a moment when antisemitic incidents have increased across the globe. I accuse him of embracing a hateful political style that almost always values crooked ideological absolutism over the careful moral distinctions upon which democratic societies depend. His views on “Democracy” are inherently anti-democratic, in particular concerning the sovereignty of the individual, the concept of equality before the law, judicial review, religious liberty, the separation of powers, and the relationship between religion and the state.
Mayor Mamdani’s campaign mostly centered around the State of Israel and its military responses in Gaza, the West Bank, southern Lebanon against Hezbollah, and occasionally against the Houthies in northern Yemen. His presentations of these conflicts have aligned totally with the lies of all the organizations beholden to terror stained Islamism. When his illegal announcement concerning the inevitable arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu – based on the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) unfounded arrest warrant signed by the since disgraced Muslim prosecutor Karim Khan – failed, he called upon the New Yorkers to “take to the streets” when the Israeli Prime Minister will visit the city. Adding his hateful insult to his lawless injury, he crossed the red line between constitutional right of free speech to criminal incitement by urging everybody to “express their level of frustration and opposition” to the visit of “the war criminal” who “is not welcome in New York City.” Finally, doubling down on his and his followers First Amendment Rights, he intoned thus: “It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant. The federal government however does and I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant.” Clearly, Mamdani’s blind hatred toward the Jews corresponds with the prevailing opinion of the most violent Islamism of the Muslim Brotherhood. What he has done is not a call for peaceful public protest but willful incitement to unlawful violence. Those who defend him and argue that his calls are within the realm of constitutionally protected speech ignore the fact that mayors have a heightened responsibility to consider the foreseeable public safety consequences of their irresponsible rhetoric. In his July 22, 2026, so-called press conference, he verbatim repeated Hamas’ accusation of “genocide” by claiming the death toll in Gaza as having exceeded 70,000 by exclusively relying on Hamas’ propaganda. Finally, in a June 17, 2025, interview, in which Zohran Mamdani discussed antisemitism, Islamophobia, and political rhetoric during his mayoral campaign, he denied the legitimacy of the State of Israel by saying that “Israel is not a place,” and “not a country.” These and countless other anti-Judaic pronouncements raise the suspicion that his overall conduct could be in violation of 42 U.S.C. Paragraph 1983 and 18 U.S.C. Paragraph 242, according to which, when the Constitution forbids the conduct and the perpetrator proceeds anyway, consciously disregards an obvious constitutional prohibition, and continues the conduct after receiving authoritative legal warnings, judicial orders, or binding precedents, commits either the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, or willful violations of the same rights, which are criminal incitement.
In his political beliefs, Mayor Mamdani calls himself a devout member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Founded in 1982 through the merger of two organizations led by Michael Harrington and others, the Democratic Socialists claim that Capitalism is inherently unjust, that Democracy must extend into the economy, that universal social rights, strong labor movement, redistribution of wealth, and domineering role of the government is needed to bring about the Marxist utopia of absolute equality. In order to accomplish these objectives, the entire American Republic must be radically altered. Starting with the Constitution and continuing with Congress, the independent judiciary, private property, and free exercise of religion, a broader political-ideological objective is the creation of a super-state that rules over the society in a tyrannical fashion. Furthermore, like in Islam, in which God is the only sovereign and the legitimacy of every earthly ruler must have the blessing of Allah, people’s sovereignty must be abolished. Thus, the inherently dangerous nature of Mayor Mamdani and the DSA organization are beyond any doubt.
In conclusion, the Constitution is not merely a legal document. It is also a moral covenant. It assumes that those entrusted with public office will exercise not only their rights, but also judgement, restraint, and civic virtue. When those virtues are ignored or diminished, the Constitution itself cannot supply what character has abandoned. Individual liberty which is the fundamental right of the American Constitution and which is the essence of American greatness, must be defended by all legal means against the predators of the people’s sovereignty like Mayor Zohran Mamdani.