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Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Mamdani’s far-left DSA condemns ceasefire, backs Palestinian ‘resistance’
Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent.
The Democratic Socialists of America, the far-left party of New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, criticizes the Gaza ceasefire.
“The Palestinian resistance announced that a ceasefire agreement has been reached and would entail the end of this intensified stage of the genocide,” the national DSA says in a statement. “This will not end Israel’s assault on the Palestinian people or the theft and occupation of Palestinian lands. A conditional ceasefire agreement does not wash the hands of the ruling class.”
The party “welcomes the relief” for Palestinians and expresses its “strongest solidarity to our comrades in Palestine,” but the statement is mostly critical. The statement does not mention the hostages or Hamas.
“DSA harbors no illusions that Israel will honor any negotiated agreement that preserves Palestinian life or self-determination. Past ceasefires only slowed the carnage, and Israel continued military action with impunity,” the statement says.
“DSA stands for the full freedoms and self-determination of the Palestinian people including the end of Israel’s colonization and occupation of all Arab lands, equality, and the right of all refugees to return to their homes and properties,” the party says.
The DSA says it backs the Thawabit, the Palestinian principles that uphold “Palestinians’ rights to resist occupation.”
The group vows to continue protests “to end US complicity in Israel’s genocide and apartheid.”
Mamdani’s own statement is also critical of Israel.
“Today’s scenes of Israelis and Palestinians are profoundly moving: Israeli hostages being freed and families reunited after years of fear, uncertainty, and torture; the first days in Gaza without relentless Israeli bombardment of Palestinians as families return to rubble and loved ones freed from detention,” he says.
“We have watched as our tax dollars have funded a genocide. The moral and human cost will be a lasting stain and requires accountability and real examination of our collective conscience and our government’s policies,” Mamdani says.
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