Friday’s PBS News Hour featured a taped interview between co-anchor Amna Nawaz and New York City’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani. Would there be hard-hitting questions about Mamdani’s previous silence on anti-Semitism? His pro-Hamas, October 7 rape-denying wife? His ominous promise to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism”? No chance.
Instead, the interview was a commiseration conversation. The interview took place on March 19, time enough to incorporate a breaking story by the Washington Free Beacon -- yet another damning indictment of anti-Jewish social media from Mamdani’s wife Rama Duwaji. The total absence of such questions was particularly striking, especially when Nawaz went out of the way to bring up Mamdani’s “family,” which presumably includes his wife.
. steve malzberg
. Craig Millward
