Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) movement is already furiously hating on New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani. Now, Republican politicians have also joined the unsettling discussions, urging the US president to revoke the Indian-American newcomer’s citizenship and deport him from the country.

Mamdani, who is a Muslim by faith and Uganda-born, moved to New York with his family when he was seven years old in 1998. He ultimately became a naturalised US citizen in 2018.

Despite his legal status, the far-right is launched a “call to action” against him on X. “The radical Zohran Mamdani cannot be allowed to destroy our beloved city of New York,” The New York Young Republican Club wrote.

In addition to urging Trump to invoke the Communist Control Act and revoke his citizenship and “promptly” deport Mamdani, the group said it was counting on border czar Tom Homan and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller to take action against the South Asian rep.

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Republican Rep Andy Ogles from Tennessee joined in as well. Contentiously pointing at Mamdani’s religion, he wrote on X, “Zohran ‘little muhammad’ Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York.”

“He needs to be DEPORTED. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalization proceedings,” he added.

Stephen Miller, on the other hand, similarly reacted following Mamdani’s sweeping victory. In light of how the Democrat mayoral primary turned out, he called New York the “clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration.”

He went on to say, “The entire Democrat party is lining up behind the diehard socialist who wants to end all immigration enforcement and abolish the prison system entirely.”

Even Trump branded the New York State Assemblyman “a 100% Communist Lunatic” on Truth Social this Wednesday.

Earlier this month, New York City Council Member and fellow Republican Vickie Paladino also called for Mamdani to be deported. “Let’s just talk about how insane it is to elect someone to any major office who hasn’t even been a US citizen for ten years—much less a radical leftist who actually hates everything about the country and is here specifically to undermine everything we’ve ever been about,” she said as per Newsweek.

Subsequently, her team attempted to right the wrongs in her statement without retracting the overall sentiment backing her scathing remarks. “Councilwoman Paladino stands by this statement, and while Zohran has clearly achieved US citizenship and thus is not eligible for deportation, the fact remains that under current administration policy Zohran likely would have been removed from the country before achieving citizenship due to his involvement in multiple antisemitic and far-left organisations in college.”

Zohran Mamdani didn’t sit silent and responded to her on X: “Like nearly 40% of all New Yorkers, I wasn’t born in this country. I moved here at age 7. It’s my home. And I’m proud to be a citizen, which means standing up for our Constitution. Councilmember Paladino might consider reading it.”

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Is Zohran Mamdani antisemitic?

The NY representative has largely maintained a pro-Palestinian stance, an instance of which gained traction after a podcast appearance with Tim Miller when he refused to condemn the “Globalise the intifada” slogan. Pro-Palestinian activists and those standing by the Gaza cause have a noticeably different understanding of the phrase as opposed to how Israelis and Jews have perceived it.

For Mamdani, it highlights the “desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights.”

Mamdani was also accused of being antisemitic when a track called “Salaam” from his old days as a rapper resurfaced online. Vehemently anti-Mamdani claims came to the forefront when the Canary Mission, a group fighting antisemitism, said that the Indian-origin assemblyman had expressed his “love to convicted Hamas funders” on the song.

In his Thursday social media attack on Mamdani, Andy Ogles even asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to look into the same 2017 song which highlights the lyric, “Free the Holy Land Five / My Guys.” These words allude to the now-defunct Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development’s leaders collectively known as the “Holy Land Five.”

The leaders in question – Shukri Abu Baker, Mohammad El-Mezain, Ghassan Elashi, Mufid Abdulqader and Abdulrahman Odeh – were all convicted in 2018 for supporting terrorism, tax fraud and money laundering. They funded the militant group Hamas responsible for the October 7 Israel attack.