POLITICS: Forget about Mamdani’s illegal donors — his legal ones are even worse

The $13,000 that Zohran Mamdani seems to have accepted in illegal donations from foreigners isn’t as sketchy as some of the legal money his campaign has taken in.

When you combine Mamdani’s two obsessions — socialism now! and the elimination of Israel — with deep-pocketed political donors you wind up with a toxic pool of reprehensible characters.

For starters, let’s play two-degrees-of-separation between the campaign and the Chinese Communist Party.

Relatives of China-based billionaire Neville Roy Singham — who funded multiple radical anti-Israel and Marxist groups linked to the Los Angeles riots and Columbia University protests — have contributed thousands of dollars to Mamdani.

Alicia Goodwin, Singham’s niece, is a Mamdani donor as well as a prominent far-left activist in New York City. She founded “Jews for Zohran,” much like “Chickens for Col. Sanders.”

Omer Hasan and Mohammad Javed — who each gave a cool quarter million to a Mamdani-supporting PAC — made their dough as executives for tech firm AppLovin, which short-selling firm Culper Research alleges is a national-security risk because Chinese national Hao Tang controls nearly 10% of the company.

Then there’s Zohran’s Islamist fans.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, via its “Unity & Justice Fund,” directed a full $100,000 into Mamdani campaign coffers.

CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the notorious 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial; five Holy Land Foundation leaders were convicted of giving Hamas more than $12 million, and were sentenced to decades in prison.

In a 2017 song, Mamdani rapped “My love to the Holy Land Five/You better look ’em up.”

So, a year before the likely next mayor of New York was naturalized as a citizen he was (literally!) singing the praises of convicted Hamas supporters.

Meanwhile, five staffers of the Islamic Circle of North America gave $1,300 in individual contributions to Mamdani’s campaign.

The ICNA is the North American branch of Jamaat-e-Islami, a South Asian Islamist group tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and banned in India and Russia as a terrorist organization.

Former New York City ICNA head Ashrafuzzaman Khan was sentenced to death in absentia for his role in the torture and murder of 18 Bangladeshi intellectuals. 

Mamdani is no Manchurian Candidate: A proud socialist and an open Israel-hater, he’s telling us forthrightly what he stands for.

Bad enough that many New Yorkers like what they hear; worse that even more just stick their heads in the sand about it