Iranian state media steals video statement on West Bank by anti-Israel NYC Congressional hopeful, candidate says

The Iranian state media outlet Press TV publishes footage of an anti-Israel New York City Congressional hopeful recounting his visit to the West Bank, without his permission.

Cameron Kasky is a Jewish survivor of the Parkland school shooting who is running to represent the 12th Congressional District in Manhattan. Longtime representative Jerry Nadler, also Jewish, is retiring.

Kasky is an anti-Israel activist who says his top priority is to “stop funding genocide.”

He recently visited the West Bank and took part in activism aimed at protecting vulnerable Palestinian villages from Israeli settler violence.

Press TV posts a video statement by Kasky discussing his trip to the outlet’s hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.

“American activist Cameron Kasky, who visited the occupied West Bank, recounts the horrors faced by Palestinians living there,” Press TV says in the posts.

“It is unfathomable, the horrors that we put them through,” Kasky says of the Palestinians in the video statement.

Kasky posted the video on social media several days ago, though, and says Press TV did not contact the campaign for permission to use the footage.

“Our campaign did not grant Iranian state media any permission to use this footage, nor would we have had they reached out in the first place,” the campaign says.

Kasky is one of several political candidates in New York City who are highlighting their anti-Israel positions after the anti-Zionist Zohran Mamdani won the race for New York City mayor.

The 12th Congressional District is home to a large Jewish population where many voters sided with the pro-Israel Andrew Cuomo over Mamdani in the mayoral race.

Kasky moved from Parkland, Florida, to New York City to attend Columbia University, where he later dropped out.