Zohran Mamdani has backed a controversial choice for his replacement in the New York State Assembly who once said 'white supremacy' was to blame for the attacks on September 11, 2001.
Aber Kawas, a Palestinian-American activist who only moved to the district last year, has received Mamdani's backing in her fight to take his seat in the state's 36th district in a special election, The New York Daily News reported.
The mayor-elect endorsement has gained the 34-year-old newfound attention on some of her more extreme opinions, including one dug up from an Asian American Writers' Workshop in 2017. In it, Kawas - who holds a Master's in Islamic Liberation Theology from a university in South Africa, connects the attacks on 9/11 to the 'American system'.
'The system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy and Islamophobia have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people, so this is a long trajectory and we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9/11,' she said.
Kawas added that 'a lot of times when people are asking us to respond about, you know, an attack when if you look back historically, a lot of come from lands that were colonized and where wars were being waged.'
'The idea that we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple people did and then there is no apology for genocides or slavery is something that I find reprehensible,' she finished. Mamdani has positioned himself as a firebrand leftist - both he and Kawas are members of the Democratic Socialists of America - with his own anti-Israel activism.
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