Several Jewish groups have condemned statements by a hardline liberal candidate in New York’s Democrat mayoral primary who defended the phrase “Globalize the intifada,” which has been used by pro-Palestinian protesters and seen by many as a call for violence against Jews.

Zohran Mamdani, a New York state assemblyman seeking to become the Big Apple’s first Muslim mayor, told The Bulwark podcast Tuesday that the slogan captured “a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights.”

“I think what’s difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic, because it’s a word that means ‘struggle,'” said Mamdani, a member of the Democrat Socialists of America.

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