Mamdani’s NYPD security request for wife comes as DSA criticizes his reversal on ‘defunding’ the police

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The DSA objected to his commitment to add 580 NYPD officers, saying the move “runs counter to the values of the socialist and working-class movement that elected him.”

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office sought NYPD protection for his wife during a planned trip to Syria and Lebanon despite his history of campaigning to reduce police funding and responsibilities, as he faces criticism from fellow Democratic Socialists for retreating from some of his earlier positions on policing.

Mamdani’s office had “strongly” recommended that NYPD officers accompany his wife, Rama Duwaji, on the September trip, the New York Post reported Tuesday. The mayor did not dispute the report but said the request stemmed from a “misunderstanding.”

The NYPD rejected the request, saying it does not deploy officers to countries under the State Department’s highest-level travel warning for personal trips.

“The NYPD does not send officers to countries with level four travel advisories for discretionary reasons not linked to investigative work,” an NYPD spokesperson said early Tuesday.

“This is not an investigative trip, and therefore, NYPD personnel will not be traveling there for it.”

Duwaji is scheduled to leave Sept. 20 to visit relatives in Syria and Lebanon. Both countries are on the State Department’s “Do Not Travel” list for Americans because of dangerous conditions. Her parents are Syrian-American Muslims originally from Damascus.

“It’s not official business. It’s not doing anything for the city,” a source familiar with the trip told the Post.

Mamdani has not disclosed whether alternative security will be arranged for his wife. His office has also provided no further details about the visit or whether seeing relatives is its only purpose.

During his campaign, Mamdani advocated reducing NYPD funding and shifting some responsibilities for responding to crime away from the department. He accused police of discrimination against marginalized communities, supported redirecting police funding and criticized NYPD surveillance practices.

Since taking office, however, Mamdani has faced criticism from the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, of which he is a member, for moving away from some of those positions.

The DSA objected to his commitment to add 580 NYPD officers, saying the move “runs counter to the values of the socialist and working-class movement that elected him.”

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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