By Garsha Vazirian

Gaza’s shadow over NYC: How a mayoral race turned into a moral referendum

Calling genocide by its name, Zohran Mamdani forced a reckoning and unleashed a fierce counterattack

TEHRAN – Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the Ugandan-Indian son of a postcolonial scholar who was born in Uganda, has done something the pundit class assumed impossible: his campaign dragged the once-distant politics of Gaza into the center of a New York mayoral election and forced voters to decide whether American power remains accountable.