Why Did Top Democrats Just Attend A Genocide Parade?
By Prem Thakker|Zeteo Photos: YouTube Screenshot|Wikimedia Commons In October 2025, Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa uttered a fateful phrase. “Every parade has the right to exist in New York City.” But does that mean the mayor has to go to every parade? On Sunday, New York was host to the Israel Day Parade. Crowds of pro-Israel marchers, Christian Zionists, Israeli officials, and U.S. politicians descended on the Upper East Side. Mayor Zohran Mamdani attracted vicious criticism for being the first New York mayor in more than 60 years not to attend the event, which honors an apartheid state internationally that is credibly accused of genocide. Mamdani avoided marching alongside Israeli officials who have expressed extremist, genocidal, and viciously racist sentiments about Palestinians – and at least one for whom the International Criminal Court is reportedly seeking an arrest warrant. That did not stop many other Democrats from marching. New York Senator Chuck Schumer, Governor Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Council Speaker Julie Menin, disgraced former Mayor Eric Adams, disgraced former Governor and failed mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo, Rep. Dan Goldman, Rep. Jerry Nadler (and Alex Bores, vying to take Nadler’s seat) – were in attendance. New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler joined them. So, who were all these New Yorkers marching with? Let’s take a survey… Subscribe to Zeteo to unlock the rest.
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By Prem Thakker|Zeteo
Photos: YouTube Screenshot|Wikimedia Commons
In October 2025, Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa uttered a fateful phrase. “Every parade has the right to exist in New York City.”
But does that mean the mayor has to go to every parade?
On Sunday, New York was host to the Israel Day Parade. Crowds of pro-Israel marchers, Christian Zionists, Israeli officials, and U.S. politicians descended on the Upper East Side.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani attracted vicious criticism for being the first New York mayor in more than 60 years not to attend the event, which honors an apartheid state internationally that is credibly accused of genocide.
Mamdani avoided marching alongside Israeli officials who have expressed extremist, genocidal, and viciously racist sentiments about Palestinians – and at least one for whom the International Criminal Court is reportedly seeking an arrest warrant.
That did not stop many other Democrats from marching. New York Senator Chuck Schumer, Governor Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Council Speaker Julie Menin, disgraced former Mayor Eric Adams, disgraced former Governor and failed mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo, Rep. Dan Goldman, Rep. Jerry Nadler (and Alex Bores, vying to take Nadler’s seat) – were in attendance. New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler joined them.
So, who were all these New Yorkers marching with? Let’s take a survey…
Subscribe to Zeteo to unlock the rest.
