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Mamdani’s father compares Abraham Lincoln to Hitler as recently as 2022, New Yorkers called ‘FOOLS’

October 30, 2025 | | Print Article

New York City Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s radical father once compared former President Abraham Lincoln to deceased Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

Mahmood Mamdani, a Columbia University professor, made the outrageous comparison during a 2022 panel discussion hosted by the Asia Society, according to Fox News.

He started by alleging that America is the “genesis of what we call settler-colonialism” before suggesting that Lincoln’s actions were Hitler’s inspiration for the Holocaust.

“With the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations; they herded American Indians into separate territories,” he explained.

“For the Nazis, this was the inspiration – Hitler realized two things: one, that genocide is doable. It is possible to do genocide, that’s what Hitler realized. Second thing Hitler realized is that you don’t have to have a common citizenship,” he continued.

Mamdani’s father also alleged that nationalism and so-called colonialism are the same thing, and that the Allies and Nazis had shared the same overall goal during World War II.

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“The Nazi political project was shared by the Allies, and that political project was to turn Germany into a ‘pure’ nation,” he claimed. “A ‘pure’ nation rid of its minorities.”

“When the Allies defeated the Nazis and went into Eastern Europe, they began to create ‘pure’ nations. To ethnically cleanse Eastern Europe of Germans – move them back into Germany. One crime doesn’t wipe out another,” he added.

These radical views haven’t been sitting well with conservatives.

“Mamdani’s father hates America, taught his son to hate America,” Libby Emmons of The Post Millennial tweeted. “Why do all the America haters still live here?”

“This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever heard, and I say that as someone who used to work at the Young Turks,” commentator Dave Rubin wrote on X.

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According to The National News Desk, Mamdani’s father also sits on the Gaza Tribunal, which was established to address what he and others call a “total failure of the organized international community to implement international law” amid the alleged “genocide” in Gaza.

“The aim of the Gaza Tribunal is to awaken civil society to its responsibility and opportunity to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” the tribunal reportedly states on its website.

The writings of Mamdani’s father are also an issue.

“Suicide bombing needs to be understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism,” he wrote in a 2004 book. “We need to recognize the suicide bomber, first and foremost, as a category of soldier.”

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During a 2020 interview, Mamdani admitted to having been radicalized by his parents.

“I mean, from the beginning, my identities are already considered radical by a lot of mainstream American political thought,” he said. “So, being a Muslim, being an immigrant, these are things that already kind of put you in the box of ‘other.’”

“And so it’s not that far of a jump because whenever you … stand up to speak up for the rights of others who share the same identity as you, then you’re a radical, right? So, often people in this country are considered radicals if they stand up for Palestinian human rights,” he added.

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