The Islamophobic campaign targeting Zohran Mamdani, New York’s mayor-elect, intensified with the circulation of an AI-generated fake advertisement. In response, leaders of multiple faiths held large gatherings to express their support.
The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced that, according to a new report from the Center for Organized Hate Research, social media platforms witnessed a systematic and coordinated campaign of Islamophobia and xenophobia during the New York City mayoral election period.
Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City, becoming the first Muslim and person of South Asian descent — as well as the youngest in over a century — to hold the position.
According to a new report by the U.S.-based civil rights coalition Equality Labs, more than 1.15 million social media posts targeting Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor, contained Islamophobic content and reached an estimated 150 billion users worldwide.
On the eve of New York’s mayoral election, a surge in Islamophobia targeting Democratic Muslim candidate Zohran Mamdani has fueled tensions across the city’s political landscape.
Tensions have intensified in the final days of New York’s mayoral race following Islamophobic remarks by U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance against Zohran Mamdani, the leading Democratic candidate who could become the city’s first Muslim mayor.
As New York’s mayoral election approaches, Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim frontrunner in the city’s history, has warned of an alarming rise in Islamophobia across the U.S. political and media landscape.
