Nyc Mayoral Frontrunner Zohran Mamdani's Professor Father Claimed Hitler Inspired By Abraham Lincoln

New York City mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani's father, a longtime world and Ivy League professor, said during a 2022 sheet chat astir 1 of his galore books that Adolf Hitler drew his inspiration for nan Holocaust from Abraham Lincoln.

The younger Mamdani, a self-proclaimed socialist, has credited his parents pinch providing him a "privileged upbringing," 1 that included predominant discussions connected politics and world affairs, according to a New York Times floor plan connected nan mayoral campaigner and his parents. Mamdani's mother is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. 

During a 2022 sheet chat hosted by nan Asia Society, Mamdani's father, Mahmood, asserted that America was nan "genesis of what we telephone settler-colonialism" astir nan world.

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"With nan Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized nan solution of reservations, they herded American Indians into abstracted territories," Mamdani, Columbia's Herbert Lehman professor of government, said. "For nan Nazis, this was nan inspiration – Hitler realized 2 things: one, that genocide is doable. It is imaginable to do genocide, that's what Hitler realized. Second point Hitler realized, is that you don't person to person a communal citizenship."

New York mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani stands pinch his mother Mira Nair and begetter Mahmood Mamdani during an predetermination nighttime gathering astatine The Greats of Craft LIC connected June 24, 2025, successful Queens, New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The elder Mamdani besides based on during nan talk that nan racist and antisemitic Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany "were patterned aft American laws." 

Other comments included claims that location is nary quality betwixt "nationalism and colonialism" and that nan Allied forces during World War II shared nan aforesaid goals arsenic nan Nazis. 

"The Nazi governmental task was shared by nan Allies, and that governmental task was to move Germany into a ‘pure’ nation. A ‘pure’ federation free of its minorities," Mamdani said astatine nan Asia Society event. "When nan Allies defeated nan Nazis and went into Eastern Europe, they began to create ‘pure’ nations. To ethnically cleanse Eastern Europe of Germans – move them backmost into Germany. One crime doesn't swipe retired another."

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Following nan governmental upset successful New York City's Democratic mayoral primary, critics began unearthing videos of nan younger Mamdani espousing likewise extremist views.

One of those moments came from remarks nan NYC mayoral campaigner made astatine a Young Democratic Socialists of America convention successful 2021, during which he told attendees not to discuss connected goals for illustration "seizing nan intends of production."

Zohran Mamdani raises hands pinch Al Sharpton during a run arena astatine nan NAN House of Justice successful nan Harlem connected Saturday, June 28, 2025. (Bloomberg/Contributor)

A 2nd included a video from The Gravel Institute, during which Mamdani discusses nan request to move lodging from a backstage commodity to a nationalist one. In nan video, he called for luxury condos to beryllium replaced pinch communal-style surviving that would see things for illustration shared laundry accommodation and nutrient co-ops.

"If we want to extremity nan lodging crisis, nan solution has to beryllium moving toward nan afloat de-commodification of housing," Mamdani urged successful nan video for The Gravel Institute.

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Meanwhile, different remarks by Mamdani's begetter person raised concerns astir really nan Democratic mayoral candidate's upbringing could effect his governing style. 

In an question and reply astir his book, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, nan Cold War, and nan Roots of Terror," nan older Mamdani asserts that nan word "suicide bomber" is simply a misnomer because they are nary different from "soldier[s] whose nonsubjective is to kill."

Zohran Mamdani, Mira Nair, Mahmood Mamdani and Nishant Tharani get astatine nan world premiere of Disney's "Queen of Katwe" astatine Roy Thompson Hall arsenic portion of nan 2016 Toronto Film Festival. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)

Professor Mamdani has besides reportedly based on that Israel is "the logical conclusion of Nazism," according to an excerpt of a study chronicling his world arguments shared by nan Washington Free Beacon. 

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Fox News Digital reached retired to some Professor Mamdani and his boy for comment.