Zohran Mamdani’s Intern Took Holocaust Survivor Money — Then Marched for a Jew-Free State

By T. Gillette and D. Pradith

Honored for fighting hate, this Zohran Mamdani intern now helps spread it.

The young woman caught on a viral video this past February, raging in NYPD officers’ faces, calling them “pigs,” and hurling abuse in Arabic and English, once competed for, and received a $5,000 award from a Holocaust remembrance foundation for promoting tolerance.

Her name is Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik. She took $5,000 in honor of Holocaust survivors.

Now she marches with antisemites.

In 2020, Malik received the Friedlander Upstander Award, funded by the Claire Friedlander Foundation, a Holocaust memorial group founded by a survivor. The award is given to students who “stand up against hate and bigotry.”

In her winning essay, Malik wrote about the pain of discrimination, the need for tolerance, and the responsibility to be an “ally to the oppressed.”

“I take it into my own hands whenever I see any bigotry or hatred upon others” —

Hadeeqa Malik, Friedlander Essay, 2020

Today, she does the opposite.

She appears regularly at NYC “Free Palestine” protests, spewing slurs at police, glorifying violence, and marching with mobs chanting slogans meant to terrorize Jews.

Later, Malik became an intern for Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist (DSA)-aligned New York State Assembly Member and mayoral hopeful whose movement has repeatedly harassed Jewish New Yorkers under the banner of “justice.”

This is who Mamdani chooses to elevate. Even Muslim NYPD officers aren’t spared. Malik was seen berating one directly, interfering with his ability to protect the public, simply because he wore a badge and wouldn’t parrot her ideology.

Because in this movement, identity isn’t enough. You either submit to the cause or become the enemy.

Democratic Socialists and Free Palestine activists are so closely intertwined that they often operate as one movement. For much of the past year and a half, protesters were even instructed not to disclose their affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), highlighting a coordinated effort to conceal these links while advancing their agenda.

 

 

Malik claims to be fighting injustice. But she took money and recognition from the Jewish community, then used her platform to vilify them. She weaponized the language of tolerance to gain praise, then turned it into a tool of deception.

And this isn’t just about her. It’s the modus operandi of Mamdani’s machine:
dehumanize one group in order to elevate another. Use the language of allyship to win sympathy, then twist it into a campaign of division and ideological control.

It’s not activism. It’s a con.

We are watching a generation trained to say the right words, claim the right wounds, and exploit real pain for radical ends. They speak in the vocabulary of human rights while marching under banners that defend terror and erase Jews.

Mamdani and his DSA cohort claim to fight inequality, but their real goal is to tear down power structures and install a rigid ideological regime.

No one disputes the need for progress. But blindly backing a person or movement without examining their broader goals risks replacing one form of oppression with another.

The stakes here aren’t abstract. They are about protecting the foundations of an open society, where dissent and difference are honored, not crushed under enforced conformity.

Malik didn’t radicalize in a vacuum. She was groomed by a fringe movement that offers belonging in exchange for extremism. Her story is a symptom of a political ecosystem shaped by figures like Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

This is part of the world Mamdani wants to expand. He has publicly called for defunding the police and, in a recorded interview from July 2020, questioned whether law enforcement is even needed for subway safety or domestic violence.

These are not reformist ideas. They emerge from radical abolitionist frameworks that seek to dismantle core public institutions, without any plan for who will protect the vulnerable once they’re gone.

While Mamdani hasn’t explicitly endorsed religious law, the concern isn’t whether he supports Sharia; it’s that his policies, intentionally or not, create conditions where extremist or illiberal systems can thrive.

That’s the lens through which Malik’s actions must be seen, not as an outlier, but as a byproduct of a culture that values ideological obedience more than public safety, decency, or truth.

Cutting police funding without real, effective alternatives puts the most vulnerable at risk, especially children and survivors of violence.

When fewer officers are available to respond quickly, emergencies turn deadly. It’s not just a budget line; it’s about who shows up when a child is in danger, when abuse is happening behind closed doors, or when a community needs protection. Defunding isn’t a theory; it’s a harsh reality that leaves people exposed and unsafe.

So why do they keep pushing it?

Because this was never about reform or safety, it’s about control. Not building a better system, dismantling the one we have.

DSA doesn’t want to embrace difference; they want to erase it. Their goal is to impose a rigid ideology where every voice echoes the same slogans and every institution obeys the same script.

Rage is the entry point. Division is the fuel. Obedience is the goal.

They demand obedience because their ideas can’t survive open debate. That’s the strategy. And here we are, following it right on script.

Protests like these are engineered to create crises so overwhelming that institutions and individuals feel they have no choice but to give in. Malik is what all our daughters could become in 15 years, unless we draw the line now.

This is not an isolated incident. It’s a pattern playing out across the West. The Jewish community believed in her. She betrayed that trust.

So we must ask: Is Mamdani radicalizing young minds, or simply attracting those already steeped in hatred? Whether he likes it or not, when Mamdani elevates individuals like Malik, it’s an endorsement by association, one that either shows a dangerous lack of judgment or reveals exactly what kind of movement he’s building.

New York doesn’t belong to one ideology or one group of people. It belongs to all of us. Don’t tell citizens they should survive domestic abuse without police protection and call that justice. We know extremism when we see it, even when it’s delivered with a bright, white Colgate smile.

Hands off, New York, Mamdani.

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