Jon Stewart Betrays 9/11 Work with Fawning Mamdani Interview

Jon Stewart perfected the clown nose on/off maneuver.

“The Daily Show” host pings between being a “serious” journalist and a grumpy satirist. One minute, he’s cherry-picking Fox News clips to gin up liberal outrage.

The next? He’s skewering the latest headlines with an impish grin.

There’s another side to Stewart, one that has drawn bipartisan support in recent years. And rightly so.

The progressive comic has used his cultural gravitas to support first responders dealing with 9/11’s tragic fallout. He’s been a staunch supporter of the Victim Compensation Fund, even speaking to Congress on the matter.

That’s not virtue signaling. It’s an artist using his platform to affect real change.

This week, Stewart continued that long-standing mission while honoring those who helped the city following the terrorist attack.

“It’s important for their morale to understand when they selflessly have our backs every day, 24/7, there’s no respite for them,” Stewart said Tuesday. “For us to be able to say, ‘Hey man, we’ve got your back, too.'”

It’s hard to square that support with the interview Stewart conducted Monday night. “The Daily Show” invited New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on mere days before the Big Apple election.

The far-Left Vulture dubbed the exchange, “chummy.”

By the end, Stewart took a moment to just acknowledge Mamdani’s historic run. “Honestly, I think any New Yorker who looks at someone getting an opportunity, who’s representing communities that have not been as represented: a Muslim, a young person, a progressive, a democratic socialist,” Stewart said. “There are so many different communities that are looking to you and, I hate to put it on you, as a bit of a Jackie Robinson moment. And I know that that probably wields some weight, but man oh man, what an exciting opportunity.”

Yet Mamdani isn’t merely a Muslim candidate. That wouldn’t be an issue, or at least it shouldn’t be. It’s more complicated and far more frightening.

In the final days of his mayoral campaign, Mamdani evoked the 9/11 attacks, but not to mourn for the victims or decry the hate that made it possible.

No, he claimed his aunt was too afraid to ride New York’s subway because she wore a hijab and feared retaliatory violence post-9/11. That lie quickly collapsed when web sleuths debunked it in short order.

He backpedaled, saying it was a cousin, not his aunt, and the person is now deceased.

That yarn is just part of a larger problem, one far bigger than a pathetic sob story.

Lefty NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani gleefully campaigned this week with a notorious, gay-hating Brooklyn imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in 1993 World Trade Center bombing and who has been linked to other terrorist activity in the United States — including urging “jihad” on the Big Apple.

This wasn’t just a quick snapshot with a stranger. Mamdani “was seen laughing and grinning while standing arm-in-arm with Siraj Wahhaj,” and he posted the picture to his X account.

The New York Post also reported that a political action committee supporting the candidate “has ties to a New Jersey-based Palestinian group that hosted a member of a terror organization which was involved in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel.”

There’s more.

Mamdani’s father, Mahmood Mamdani, is part of The Gaza Tribunal’s advisory council. The group, according to Fox News, “supports boycotts and sanctions of Israel, routinely accuses the Israeli government of committing ‘genocide’ and has expressed sympathy for suicide bombers.”

The mayoral hopeful also initially dodged a chance to condemn podcaster Hasan Piker, a radical pundit who said “America deserved 9/11.” Piker also reportedly said, “it doesn’t matter if rapes f—ing happened on Oct. 7.” 

Later, when pressed by mayoral rival Andrew Cuomo in a debate setting, Mamdani finally said the right thing about Piker.

These issues aren’t new for Mamdani. 

In 2017, a young Mamdani penned a rap song praising a radical group convicted of killing a 17-year-old Jewish teen.

My love to the Holy Land Five / You better look ’em up.

Stewart is Jewish, and Mamdani’s track record on Jewish matters is nothing less than disturbing. He’s vowed to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should the world leader step foot on New York City soil.

He also refused to condemn the phrase, “globalize the intifada,” acknowledged by many as a cry to wipe out the Jewish people.

His first official statement a day after the Oct. 7 attacks failed to mention the term “Hamas” and warned Israel against taking any retaliatory strikes.

New York City has the largest Jewish population outside of Israel.

Yet Stewart used his “Daily Show” perch to praise Mamdani, throw softball queries his way and do what he could to promote his candidacy. And that doesn’t begin to explore the candidate’s farcical policies, extreme anti-police rhetoric or other politically dubioius platforms.

Why would someone so personally committed to helping 9/11 victims do such a thing? It’s a question best asked of Stewart directly. The chance that any journalist will do such a thing hovers between slim and none.

And none is the likely answer.

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