🤯 (MUST SEE VIDEO) Mayor of New York literally flies to Israel and says, “I wanted to come back here to Israel and let you know that I served you as the mayor.” Like...what?

Can you imagine if Zohran Mamdani went to ANY country in the world and said this???

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“I served you as the mayor”

Let’s talk about this video.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, standing in Israel, wearing a kippah, looks into the cameras and says:

“I wanted to come back here to Israel and let you know that I served you as the mayor.”

Not “I visited you.”
Not “I support you.”
Not “I stand with you.”

“I served you.”

He is not an Israeli official. He is not a dual office-holder. He is the mayor of New York City — home to 8.5 million people with their own needs, crises, and priorities.

And yet, he traveled to a foreign state and declared that his time as mayor was in service to them.

You don’t need a PhD or a law degree to know how outrageous that is.

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Imagine Zohran Mamdani saying the same thing in Riyadh

Here’s the thought experiment that exposes how rotten this is.

Picture a year from now. Zohran Mamdani — the incoming mayor who just defeated Adams — travels to Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan, or Somalia, or any Muslim-majority country. He stands at a holy site wearing traditional clothing and tells reporters, “I wanted to come here and let you know that I served you as the mayor.”

We both know exactly what would happen.

Cable news would light itself on fire. Fox News would run the clip on repeat, demanding to know whether he is a foreign agent. The New York Post would print a new screaming front page every morning. Members of Congress would launch investigations into “Islamist influence” and “foreign infiltration.” Editorial boards would question his loyalty and call for his resignation. He would be buried in racist conspiracy theories about Sharia law and secret allegiances. The threats would start immediately. His political career would be in jeopardy before his plane even landed back at JFK.

The fact that Eric Adams can say this about Israel — and suffer virtually no political consequence — tells you everything about who is allowed to pledge themselves to a foreign state in America, and who is not.

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Who are you elected to serve?

In theory, this should not be complicated.

When public officials in the United States take office, they swear an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution and to serve the people they represent. That’s it. They don’t swear allegiance to Tel Aviv, Riyadh, Beijing, London, or any other foreign capital.

Every mayor, governor, senator, and president has the same basic job description: put the interests of their constituents and the constitutional order first.

So when Eric Adams says, as mayor of New York City, that he traveled to a foreign state to announce that he “served” them, it forces some very serious questions. What does he actually mean by “served”? What concrete actions did he take in office that were designed to benefit Israel? Did he shape policy with another country’s interests in mind? Did he direct city resources, relationships, or political capital to match that claim? Who paid for those trips? Who was he reporting back to? Whose approval was he really chasing?

There may not be a criminal statute that says, “You can’t utter that sentence on camera in Jerusalem.” Free speech is broad, even for public officials. But ethically and politically, it is a blaring alarm. At the very least, it is an admission that the mayor understands his role as being, in part, in service to a foreign agenda — and is proud enough of that to say it out loud.

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Is it legal? Maybe. Is it corrupt? Absolutely.

By itself, what Adams said is unlikely to get him indicted. Politicians say reckless, offensive, ethically gross things all the time that don’t rise to the level of a crime. To break federal law, you’d need evidence that he acted as an actual agent of a foreign government — taking direction, receiving benefits, trading official favors, lying about it under oath. That’s the territory of FARA and other national-security statutes, and we don’t have that full evidentiary record in front of us.

But the absence of a ready indictment doesn’t mean this is nothing. It’s not nothing.

We know that Adams is on record saying he “served” a foreign state while holding public office in New York City. We know that he has traveled there multiple times and wrapped his political identity around that relationship. We know that he treats criticism of Israel as if it’s a personal attack. We know all of this is happening while New York is drowning in unaffordable housing, record homelessness, a humanitarian crisis among migrants, and a police force that already behaves like an occupying army.

Taken together, that paints a picture of something deeply corrupt — not necessarily in the narrow legal sense, but in the broader moral sense of the word. It suggests that, at minimum, Adams has understood part of his job to be advancing the interests of a foreign government. For an American mayor, that alone should be disqualifying.

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Why Israel is the one exception

Eric Adams could not have made that same statement about any other country and stayed in office.

He could not stand at the Great Wall of China and say, “I wanted to come back and tell China I served you as the mayor.” He could not stand in Moscow and say, “I served you.” He could not stand in Riyadh or Tehran or Mexico City and survive the week politically.

So why is it tolerated — even celebrated in some circles — when the foreign country is Israel?

Because in American politics, Israel is treated not as a foreign state but as something closer to a sacred domestic project. It functions like a protected constituency with veto power over careers. Politicians act as if winning or keeping certain offices requires proof of devotion to Israel, as if it were the fifty-first state or an unofficial branch of our own government.

Question that relationship and you are smeared as anti-Semitic. Oppose Israel’s crimes and you’re painted as dangerous. Stand with Palestinians and you’re told you’re unfit for office.

But wrap yourself in the flag of Israel, brag about serving it, and somehow that’s “leadership.”

This is what people are talking about when they describe Zionist political capture. It’s not a shadowy conspiracy. It’s an observable pattern: one foreign state can demand total loyalty from American politicians, receive billions in weapons while committing genocide on live television, and have its flag flown on U.S. government buildings — and anyone who objects is treated as the problem.

In that environment, Eric Adams feels perfectly comfortable telling Israel, “I served you.” He knows which side of the double standard he’s on.

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What Adams’ words reveal about Mamdani’s victory

In a strange way, hearing Adams talk like this clarifies exactly why Zohran Mamdani’s win was so important.

Adams represents the old New York: a city over-policed and over-surveilled, run for donors and developers, reflexively aligned with Israel no matter what it does. It’s the New York where you prove you’re serious by buying more cops, building more jails, and flying a foreign flag over City Hall while children starve in Gaza.

Mamdani represents something entirely different. His campaign was rooted in the idea that New York should be governed for tenants, workers, families, students, immigrants — not for developers, lobbyists, or foreign governments. He has been clear about Palestinian humanity. He has been honest about U.S. complicity. And he has been elected by New Yorkers who are tired of paying impossible rents while watching their mayor posture on the other side of the world.

Adams could stand in Jerusalem and say, “I served you,” and most of the media shrugged. If Mamdani ever said the same words in any Muslim country — “I served you as the mayor” — the media would try to burn his career to the ground. That contrast tells you everything you need to know about who is allowed to be loyal to whom.

Black, brown, Muslim, immigrant-background leaders are constantly interrogated about whether they are “really American,” whether they bring “foreign politics” with them, whether they might secretly serve another master. Meanwhile, Eric Adams can literally declare that he served a foreign state and still be treated as a legitimate, mainstream figure.

That’s not only hypocrisy. It’s structural racism and structural Zionism working hand-in-hand.

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So what do we do with this?

We don’t just shake our heads, tweet a joke, and move on.

We remember this moment.

We save the clip and the quote. We bring it up every time someone accuses a pro-Palestinian official of having “divided loyalties.” We bring it up when pundits try to paint Zohran Mamdani or any other Muslim or Arab-background politician as inherently suspect. We bring it up when people pretend that loyalty tests only run in one direction.

If Adams ever tries to reinvent himself as an elder statesman or moral leader after leaving office, we pull this tape back out and say, No. This is who you told us you were.

Because at the end of the day, his words are a confession.
He told us whom he was serving.
We should believe him.

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Family, if you want a media ecosystem where these kinds of confessions are not buried, where we actually question foreign capture of our politics, where we hold every politician — left, right, Black, white, Muslim, Christian — to the same standard, then I need you with me.

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Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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