New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani (D.) has hired an anti-Israel activist who blamed Israel for Oct. 7 and defended slogans calling for the elimination of the Jewish state in since-deleted posts on X. He will serve as Mamdani's deputy communications director for economic justice. Waleed Shahid—who advised far-left politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and former congressman Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.) before joining Mamdani’s administration—called Hamas’s attack "a byproduct of