[ May 29, 2026 ]
The official Israel Day Parade (officially known as the Celebrate Israel Parade) began in 1965. From 1965 until 2025, every sitting mayor attended.Mayor Zohran Mamdani became the first sitting mayor in 62 years to skip the event.
Mamdani’s hatred of the Jewish people is so consuming, it defines his mayoralty.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will not attend the city’s annual Israel Day Parade on Sunday — breaking with a tradition every NYC mayor has upheld since 1964.
The decision comes as Mamdani has continued appearing at major cultural and religious events across the city,… pic.twitter.com/MRCVmJJVpO
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 29, 2026
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SCOOP: Source tells me New York Governor Kathy Hochul has been communicating with @ZohranKMamdani about issuing a stand down order for the NYPD for the upcoming Israel Parade in NYC.
Source says Hochul is getting pressure to not attend this year and Mamdani is telling his staff…
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) May 13, 2026
When Mamdani marches in the Pakistan parade, it should be understood as an endorsement of the genocidal, Islamic supremacist government of Pakistan. https://t.co/lvHmJ7oxLe
— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) May 29, 2026
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Mamdani slammed after revealing why he’s boycotting NYC’s Israel Day Parade: ‘I’ve made my views clear’By Amanda Woods, Carl Campanile and David Propper, NY Post, May 28, 2026:
Mayor Zohran Mamdani will notably be skipping the Israel Day Parade — saying Thursday its because he disagrees with the Jewish state’s government.
ADVERTISEMENTThe mayor’s comments drew consternation from Jewish leaders, who slammed Mamdani for turning the annual celebration political, as he held firm to his longtime decision not to attend the parade set for Sunday.
“You know, I said on the campaign trail that I wouldn’t be attending the parade, and I’ve made my views on the Israeli government abundantly clear,” Mamdani said, standing alongside NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch during a security briefing about the event.
“And I also said on that same campaign that I would have a responsibility as the mayor of the city to ensure the safety and security of each and every New Yorker,” he added.
Participants in the 2025 Israel Day Parade on Fifth Avenue, including politicians and members of the public, holding Israeli flags and banners with messages of support for Israel.
The parade brings thousands of revelers yearly.
The top cop, who is Jewish, pointed to herself during the briefing when a reporter asked if anyone would be representing the Mamdani administration at the parade.
“It is the mayor’s decision not to march, and it is my decision to march proudly,” she said.
ADVERTISEMENTBut some members of the Jewish community weren’t convinced by Mamdani’s reason for ditching the event — pointing out it is a celebration of religious identity and comes at a time when antisemitism continues to roil the city.
“It’s not a policy parade. It’s a Jewish people parade,” Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, the executive director of the New York Board of Rabbis, told The Post.
“He can march in the parade and have a different point of view [and] show respect for the Jewish people.”
Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, had a blunt message for the Democratic Socialists of America darling in a Daily News op-ed earlier this week.
Mamdani has long been a critic of Israel.
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“The mayor was elected to lead all of us. He has decided that some of us are not worth his time. That is his right. It is also our right to remember it.”Hizzoner’s snub stands in sharp contrast with his predecessors and comes after he happily joined other festivities this year, including the Lunar New Year Parade, the Phagwah Parade and the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
The 34-year-old former Queens state assemblyman has long expressed anti-Israel views and railed against its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu-led government. He has also slammed Israel for its military action in Gaza after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attack.
Mamdani said on the campaign trail last year he doesn’t believe Israel should be a Jewish state, but a state with equal rights and threatened to order the arrest of Netanyahu if he steps foot in the city.
He also made clear during the campaign he would not be marching in the Israel Day Parade, insisting he looked forward to joining and hosting other events for Jewish New Yorkers instead.
Former recent mayors like Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams marched in the parade while they were in office.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a press conference with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a press conference with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
Michael Nagle for NY Post
Adams trolled his successor on Wednesday, saying in an X post he planned on attending the parade.Tisch said Thursday the NYPD was preparing to deploy “the most extensive security plan” that the department has ever put together for an Israel Day Parade, including “the largest number of officers ever assigned to that detail.”
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