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00:00his political career and achievements everything about the shakad twain and zohran mamdani his life

00:07and everything about him part two mamdani has argued that increasing policing and incarceration

00:13does little to prevent harm and that dignified work economic stability and well-resourced

00:19neighborhoods can more effectively keep the public safe he has advocated a more community-based

00:24approach to reducing crime focusing on homeless outreach and anti-violence programs he contends

00:31that there is too much reliance on police to fix societal problems saying police have a critical

00:36role to play but right now we are relying on them to deal with the failures of the social safety net

00:41of reliance that is preventing them from doing their actual jobs he has proposed a department of

00:46community safety to expand mental health outreach in june 2020 mamdani tweeted we don't need an

00:53investigation to know that the nypd is racist anti-queer and a major threat to public safety

00:59what we need is to hashtag defund the nypd during the 2025 mayoral race he opposed defunding saying

01:07during the second primary debate that he would not defund the police he would work with the police

01:12mamdani advocates for debt relief among taxi medallion owners mamdani has advocated rent control

01:19strengthening tenant protections and creating a social housing development agency that would

01:24build publicly owned affordable housing he wants to build 200 000 new units of affordable rent stabilized

01:31homes over the next 10 years and double the amount of spending to rehabilitate homes for the city's

01:36400 000 public housing tenants he also wants to increase density around mass transit hubs and upzone

01:43wealthier neighborhoods citing housing policies in jersey city and tokyo as examples

01:49momdani supports raising new york city's minimum wage to thirty dollars per hour by 2030. he advocates

01:55a pilot program in which the city government would operate one grocery store in each borough to drive

02:00down prices momdani supports an increase in corporate taxes in new york state from 7.25 percent to 11.5

02:08to match those of new jersey he also supports a new two percent increase for income tax on city residents

02:14who earn more than 1 million dollars a year to raise 20 billion dollars to fund tuition-free cuny and suny

02:20schools statewide universal child care a subway fare freeze free mta buses and tenant protections

02:28in june 2025 momdani said i don't think we should have billionaires momdani views climate action as

02:35essential to achieving social justice in new york city in 2021 he organized volunteers and lobbied governor

02:42kathy hochel to prevent the expansion of a gas-fired peaker power plant in astoria citing environmental

02:48concerns for low-income non-white communities momdani has also backed statewide measures such as the all

02:55electric buildings act which prohibits installing fossil fuel equipment e.g gas stoves in new buildings

03:02and supported introducing congestion pricing in manhattan to reduce traffic related emissions

03:07as a mayoral candidate momdani proposed a comprehensive decarbonization and resilience

03:13agenda his green schools for a healthier new york city blueprint would retrofit 500 public school

03:19buildings with rooftop solar arrays and upgraded hvac systems build 500 green schoolyards transform

03:25heat absorbing asphalt into green space serving students and community residents convert 50 schools

03:31into year-round resilience hubs to offer shelter and resources during extreme heat storms or flooding

03:36and extend tax incentives such as j51 benefits to support building owners compliance with local law 97

03:43momdini is an advocate for the new york health act which would establish single-payer health care in new

03:47york state he starred in a 2021 advertisement for the campaign for new york health along with state

03:53senator jabari brisport portraying a firefighter momdani is deeply critical of israel condemning israel

04:00apartheid apartheid in 2023 mamdani has expressed support for the boycott divestment and sanctions

04:06movement early in 2023 he introduced a bill called the not on our dime ending new york funding of israeli

04:14settler violence act which would prohibit registered charities from donating to organizations involved in

04:20israel's illegal west bank settlements a later iteration of the bill added organizations lending support to

04:26alleged war crimes in gaza the day after the hamas led october 7th attacks on israel mamdani issued a

04:32statement to mourn the hundreds of people killed across israel and palestine and that israel's war in

04:38gaza stoppage of gaza's electricity politicians rhetoric would lead to more violence with the only

04:44path to peace through ending occupation and apartheid it made no mention of hamas he later condemned the

04:50hamas attacks as a horrific war crime on october 13th 2023 he was among several protesters arrested

04:57during a pro-palestinian demonstration in new york city part of a series of protests calling for a

05:02ceasefire in gaza that day he described israel as on the brink of committing genocide in gaza by mid-2025

05:09he believed that israel was committing one in a 2025 interview mamdani stated that if benjamin netanyahu

05:15travels to new york city he should be arrested in accordance with the international criminal

05:20courts warrant for his arrest in may 2025 mamdani declined to sign on to the annual new york assembly

05:27resolution condemning the holocaust and celebrating the anniversary of the founding of israel because

05:31it contained the wording that israel continues to strive for peace with security and dignity for itself

05:37its neighbors and throughout the world in order to fulfill the prophecy of becoming a light unto the

05:43nations which mamdani's spokesman said was belied by the conduct of the current government of israel over

05:48the past 18 months his decision drew criticism from assembly member sam burger who also criticized

05:55mamdani's condemnation of israel during the gaza war mamdani believes that israel has a right to exist

06:01but has not said he believes it has a right to exist as a jewish state saying instead that israel has a

06:06right to exist as a state with equal rights for all its citizens mamdani had co-sponsored the assembly's

06:12resolution in 2021 but did not in 2022 2023 or 2024 his campaign claimed that he had voted for the

06:21resolutions each year prior to 2025 and cited his social media posts from those years while campaigning

06:28for new york city mayor on the bulwark podcast in june 2025 asked about the phrase globalize the intifada

06:35mamdani described it as a symbolic call against israel's violation of palestinian human rights not

06:40for violence or anti-semitism mamdani said the word intifada has been used by the u.s holocaust

06:46memorial museum in arabic translations referring to jewish resistance during world war ii the museum

06:52denounced his comments saying they sanitized the slogan several jewish public figures also condemned

06:58mamdani's remarks including u.s representative ted deutsch former world jewish congress vice president

07:04mark schneier adl leader jonathan greenblatt rabbi amiel hirsch and u.s representative dan goldman

07:10fellow mayoral candidate and jewish new york city comptroller brad lander defended momdani

07:16saying he personally disliked the slogan but believed momdani would protect jewish new yorkers

07:20as mayor after momdani became the presumptive nominee u.s representative and prominent new

07:25york jewish leader jerry nadler endorsed him saying he had spoken with momdani and that he would join

07:30him in fighting hate republicans have called momdani anti-semitic over his support of palestine and

07:36criticism of israel momdani has stated that his criticism of israel is not equivalent to anti-semitism

07:43maintaining that there is a difference between anti-zionism and anti-semitism after criticism of

07:49his bulwark interview momdani responded i've said at every opportunity that there is no room for

07:55anti-semitism in this city in this country i've said that because that is something i personally believe

08:02momdani has expressed love for jews in new york city he has indicated that anti-semitism is

08:08antithetical to his belief in universal human rights and described anti-semitism as a real issue

08:13for new york city momdani has made mayoral campaign pledges to protect jewish new yorkers

08:20and to combat anti-semitism by establishing a city department of community safety and spending 800

08:26more city funds on anti-hate crime programming at a mayoral forum in may 2025 during which he appeared

08:34alongside brad lander and scott stringer the question of engaging with indian prime minister

08:39narendra modi at a rally such as one at madison square garden was posed in response momdani stated

08:46his firm refusal explaining that he considers modi a war criminal due to his perceived role in

08:51orchestrating a mass slaughter of muslims in gujarat during the 2002 riots he further elaborated

08:58that he believes the impact of these events was so severe that we don't even believe there are

09:02gujarati muslims anymore and that modi should be viewed in the same light as benjamin netanyahu

09:08momdani supported proposal one a 2024 amendment to the constitution of new york that made it

09:14unconstitutional to engage in discrimination based on ethnicity national origin age disability

09:20sex including sexual orientation gender identity and gender expression pregnancy and pregnancy related

09:26outcomes and reproductive health care and autonomy momdani supports enforcement of new york's sanctuary

09:33laws which bar immigration and customs enforcement ice from entering schools hospitals and city

09:38property without a judicial warrant he has also proposed creating a commission to ensure compliance by

09:44city agencies and contractors he said we should strengthen our sanctuary city laws

09:50he has pledged that if he is elected mayor the city will provide legal representation for all

09:55immigrants in detention proceedings on march 12 2025 momdani confronted border czar tom homan in albany

10:02about isis recent arrest of mahmoud khalil momdani yelled do you believe in the first amendment

10:08momdani is pro-trans rights in february 2025 momdani appeared at a rally in union square to protest an

10:16executive order signed by president trump that threatened to withhold federal funding from

10:21hospitals that provide gender-affirming treatments to trans youth as part of his mayoral platform for

10:26nyc momdani supports expanding and protecting gender affirming care citywide he proposed an immediate

10:33investment of 65 million dollars in public providers to ensure funding for medical treatments that lose

10:39medicaid coverage and promise to ensure hospital accountability he also aims to establish nyc as an

10:46lgbtq plus sanctuary city and establish the office of lgbtqia plus affairs to expand and centralize the

10:55services programs and support that lgbtqia plus new yorkers need across housing employment and more

11:03momdani supports permanently eliminating bus fares he advocated for an mta bus fare-free pilot program

11:10which was launched on the q4 b60 bx18 m116 and s4696 routes in september 2023 the program saw a 30

11:21increase in ridership on weekdays predominantly from people earning less than 28 000 a year across the

11:28five routes made free assaults on bus operators dropped by 38.9 the fare-free program ended in

11:34august 2024 after state lawmakers did not reauthorize it in response momdani said the mta was opposed to

11:41this program because they were saying that now is not the time to create any kind of confusion around

11:47fare collection he estimates that it would cost new york city 650 million dollars per year to eliminate

11:53bus fares in december 2022 momdani introduced a series of bills for the 2023 session called fix the

12:00mta he proposed free bus travel over the next four years across the bronx brooklyn queens and then

12:07manhattan and staten island the formula 3 act would fill the 2.5 billion dollars shortfall of the mta

12:14with another plank freezing fares at 2.75 another plank would have set aside further money for more

12:21frequency such as six minute headways for trains and the 100 most used bus routes then using any

12:27additional funds to increase service by 20 percent in 2023 momdani co-introduced a bill to enact a

12:34weight-based vehicle registration fee to dissuade people from owning heavier vehicles in an effort to

12:40make streets safer momdani supports congestion pricing and drafted a bill with new york state senator michael

12:46gianaris titled get congestion pricing right to increase bus service frequency and increase the

12:52number of fare free buses momdani naturalized as a u.s citizen in 2018 becoming a dual citizen of the

12:59u.s and uganda he is a shia muslim and he identifies with the twelver branch in february 2025 momdani married

13:08american animator rama dawaji in a private ceremony at new york city hall the couple who'd met years prior on

13:14the dating application hinge publicly announced their marriage three months after their wedding

13:19momdani and dawaji currently reside in astoria queens dot momdani is a fan of the new york mets and

13:25the new york giants he also supports the english football club arsenal besides english momdani has

13:32used other languages during his mayoral campaign showing different degrees of proficiency in hindi urdu

13:38bengali and spanish i stop at this point today until next time stay curious stay informed and keep

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