Zohran Mamdani, the socialist candidate running to become New York’s next mayor, has come under increasing scrutiny for his repeated refusal to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada.”

While Mamdani has said the expression is not one he personally chooses to use, critics have accused him of condoning antisemitism because the mayoral candidate has declined to disavow the phrase, saying he hears the language as “a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights.”