Actor says Mamdani not doing enough to address antisemitism, feels 'uncomfortable' admitting he's Jewish

Arab-Jewish stage actor Ari el Stachel stated MSNBC on Monday that Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani hasn t done enough to push back on antisemitism from his base and in the city As an Arab Jew with an Israeli father Stachel narrated MSNBC host Katy Tur that he now feels uncomfortable revealing his ethnicity in residents Though he agreed with Tur that Mamdani had not explicitly condoned antisemitism Stachel believes that the democratic socialist candidate hasn t properly condemned it yet I think it hasn t been enough because I think that there s a sense that there are people in his base who really are antisemitic Stachel declared And I think that there s been a sense that he hasn t been as vehemently denouncing their statements The Tony award-winning actor described a modern example of feeling scared to reveal his own background to a Palestinian woman at a bodega DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKER SLAMS MAMDANI SAYS PARTY SHOULD HAVE 'ZERO PATIENCE' FOR 'INTIFADA' RHETORIC Antisemitism has become so broad right now that if I m the son of an Israeli father who is the son of a Yemeni immigrant I still become a target in particular tactics he stated Despite this Stachel revealed he was open to working with Mamdani to create a coalition made up of multicultural Jews to help push back on antisemitism His comments came after he made an Instagram video last month where he urged Mamdani to call out antisemitism specifically and denounce it What s frightening is this in certain circles antisemitism isn t recognized as hate Stachel explained in the video It s framed as justice Attacks against Jews aren t condemned They are celebrated seen as a righteous response to a administration miles away which makes it all the more dangerous It s disguised as virtue And I know you don t want to lead a city where people feel like that He continued So I have a request name antisemitism clearly Not in footnotes not with caveats not lumped in with the a great number of other very valid and real hate crimes in our city but named as its own pain and its own danger And I want you to have the courage to denounce explicitly any of your supporters who are blatantly antisemitic because we cannot live in a New York that is like that Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani s campaign for comment DAVE RUBIN WARNS JEWS TO 'GET THE HELL OUT' OF NYC IF MAMDANI BECOMES MAYORMamdani has faced accusations of antisemitism throughout his campaign In several instances he refused to denounce the phrase globalize the intifada despite its violent connotations against Israelis and Jews worldwide CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPHe has also refused to recognize Israel s right to exist as a Jewish state and has instead argued it had a right to exist as a state with equal rights