😡 A Zionist Just Posted What Might Be the Most Despicable & Offensive Campaign Tweet I've Ever Seen to Scare People About Zohran Mamdani

Ellie Cohanim posted 9/11’s most painful image to scare New Yorkers about Zohran Mamdani. “Never Forget” doesn’t mean “never stop exploiting.”

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Ellie Cohanim hit “post” and tried to borrow New York’s deepest wound to win a news cycle. Her despicable tweet pairs two images from 9/11—the North Tower fireball and the Falling Man—with a line urging New Yorkers to vote against Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim and who now leads the mayoral race. The message is unmistakable: Put a Muslim in City Hall and you’ll bring this back.

Let’s name it plainly: that is Islamophobia with a fresh coat of paint. It is also a desecration.

The Falling Man is not a stock photo. He is a human being in the last seconds of his life, unidentified to this day, who jumped to avoid burning to death. For families, survivors, first responders, and millions who still carry that morning inside their bodies, that image is sacred. It belongs to the dead, not to political operatives looking for engagement.

And the slander is as ignorant as it is cruel. When 9/11 happened, New York City’s mayor was Rudy Giuliani, a Republican and a Catholic. The President was George W. Bush, a Republican and an evangelical Christian. The point is not to blame their faiths for that day any more than you should blame Zohran Mamdani for anyone’s crimes. Nevermind that he was literally in elementary school when this happened and LOVES New York City to his bones.

The point is that terror isn’t a religion and leadership isn’t a blood test. Scapegoating a Muslim candidate with a snuff image is not “security.” It’s bigotry.

Cohanim’s post isn’t “Never Forget.” It’s never let go of fear if it helps your side win. It’s an old playbook: take the worst thing that’s ever happened to a city, strip it of human context, and use it as a cudgel against the newest person you want the public to fear. It says nothing about transit, housing, schools, safety, budgeting, ethics, or competence. It says everything about contempt—for voters, for truth, and for the dead.

You want to talk about “saving our city”? Start by respecting our grief. Start by not turning the most searing image of that day into a campaign poster. Start by not telling two million Muslim New Yorkers that their faith disqualifies them from trust.

I write this as someone who has sat with families who lost loved ones on 9/11. I’ve stood at the memorial and watched mothers and fathers trace names with their fingers. They don’t want their loved ones’ final moments turned into clickbait. They don’t want the Falling Man deployed as a racial dog whistle. They want dignity. They want leadership. They want a city that never again confuses fear with policy.

Objection & Answer
“It’s just a reminder to vote.” Then use your platform, not a corpse. Tell us your plan for mental health, for affordable housing, for subways, for school safety. If your message can’t stand without a man’s final plunge, you don’t have a message.

“It’s about security.” Security without humanity becomes cruelty. New York knows the difference. The safest cities are not the most bigoted ones; they are the most competently governed ones.

“You’re overreacting.” No. Ask the families whose photographs were plastered on missing-person posters that week. Ask the survivors who still wake up at 3 a.m. That image is a grave, not a banner ad.

To Zohran Mamdani and to every Muslim New Yorker who felt the sting of that post: you don’t owe anyone an apology for your existence. The smear fails because you live here—because you build here. This city is yours too. This is your home.

To Ellie Cohanim: take it down. Apologize to the families and to the city. Then try doing politics the old-fashioned way — by convincing people with ideas instead of trauma-bait. I say this knowing full well you have no shame. Or dignity. She’s said as much already. Zionists are universally shameless.

New York deserves better than this. The dead deserve better than this. And if you share this conviction—if you want a media platform that calls out this garbage in real time and keeps Gaza and justice coverage free—I need you with me.

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