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From bedside of his son on life support from terror attack, Israeli envoy to US decries Mamdani’s ‘dangerous lies’
October 7, 2026

Yechiel Leiter, Israeli ambassador to the United States, was so put off by the statement that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released on the third anniversary of Oct. 7 that the envoy decried it from the hospital in Israel, where he is at the bedside of his son, who is on life support after a Palestinian terrorist hit him with a car. “It’s actually hard to find a sentence in Mamdani’s post that isn’t a lie,” Leiter stated. “Paying lip service to the victims of Oct. 7 just to spread blood libels about Israel might play nicely to the red-green/communist-Islamist alliance that he promotes in the United States, but those of us who know better see his perverted language for what it is,” the Israeli envoy stated. “This man is a defender of Palestinian terrorism, a promoter of antisemitism and an advocate of anti-Americanism.”  according to the Israeli envoy. READ MORE

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