A video has gone viral on X with the claim that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was seen dining at a Palestinian restaurant on the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Critics ripped the mayor for eating at the restaurant, identified on social media as Hinds Hall.
“@NYCMayor making quite a statement. Having dinner at the only Palestinian restaurant on the Upper West Side this October 7th,” an X user wrote , sharing a video of Mamdani inside the restaurant, filmed from outside. Mamdani added, “The suffering did not begin nor end that day. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.”
It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed.
“How Zohran Mamdani is commemorating October 7: eating at Hinds Hall, a Palestinian restaurant in NYC,” wrote journalist Olivia Reingold.
