No public record shows Zohran Mamdani hosting Israeli families of October 7 victims or hostages at Gracie Mansion. He has hosted Palestinian families from Gaza there, plus activist Mahmoud Khalil, who has justified elements of the attack.
He has called the October 7 massacre a "horrific war crime" and condemned civilian killings, yet declined to demand Hamas disarm or leave power in Gaza, backs BDS, labels Israel's Gaza campaign a genocide, and rejects Israel as a Jewish state.
He repeatedly declined to condemn "globalize the intifada," framing it as a call for Palestinian rights, though he later said he would discourage the phrase.
He has met multiple times with Sheikh Fadhel Al-Sahlani, who praised the October 7 attack and has minimized the Holocaust; his office condemned those remarks while maintaining the ties.