Mamdani booed and branded a 'traitor' at NYC October 7 vigil amid global anniversary protests
From the Newshound archive · first published 7 October 2026 · last updated 8 October 2026.
Isaac Herzog posted on X at 6:29am on October 7. Commemorations began nationwide at that precise moment — the exact time Hamas launched its attack three years ago.A corridor at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, where newly released security footage shows 674 people were treated in the first 24 hours — more than five times the number the hospital had ever rehearsed for.The fire-damaged buildings of Kibbutz Nir Oz, where one in four residents was killed or taken hostage — this is the first anniversary to pass with no hostages still in captivity.Footage of a woman hiding in a dumpster during the Hamas attack, as Israel marks three years since the deadliest assault in its history killed 1,200 people.Footage of Hamas gunmen shooting a father as he tries to flee with his daughter under his arm on October 7, as Israel marks three years since the attack that killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.Footage of an RPG attack on an ambulance at the Nova festival site, where crowds of Israelis have been gathering to commemorate three years since the massacre.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was heckled, booed, and denounced as a "traitor" by anti-Israel protesters at a Union Square candlelight vigil marking three years since the October 7 Hamas massacre, with demonstrators accusing him of complicity in "genocide." Critics also condemned a social media post Mamdani made on the anniversary, calling it rooted in antisemitism and accusing him of acting as a spokesman for Hamas. The disruption was part of a broader wave of anti-Israel protests across New York and beyond on the anniversary.
Anti-Israel groups disrupted memorials at Columbia and NYU, chanting "long live the intifada," while pro-Palestinian students at UCLA called for "death and destruction" of Israel.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps marked the anniversary by celebrating the Hamas-led massacre and vowing to press on until "the complete destruction of the occupying Zionist regime," with state broadcaster Radio Tehran calling the 2023 attack "the first phase of the total elimination of Israel."
A terrorist-designated group's flag was waved at a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney, alongside a tribute poster to slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, architect of the October 7 attack.
