Zohran Mamdani’s Father Calls America “The Root of All Evil,” Claims Abraham Lincoln Taught Hitler Genocide

Imagine being raised on a constant diet of this poison – to despise the country you now govern.

Why do these America haters come to America?

Zohran Mamdani’s father:

“America is the root of all evil in the world, and it was the inspiration for the Nazis. Hitler learned genocide from Abraham Lincoln.”

I’m sure someone who was raised with this mentality has America’s best interests in mind. pic.twitter.com/AYhlkFubx5

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) October 16, 2026

Zohran Mamdani’s father:

“America is the root of all evil in the world, and it was the inspiration for the Nazis. Hitler learned genocide from Abraham Lincoln.”

I’m sure someone who was raised with this mentality has America’s best interests in mind.

Zohran Mamdani’s father:

“America is the root of all evil in the world, and it was the inspiration for the Nazis. Hitler learned genocide from Abraham Lincoln.” pic.twitter.com/F7YYjLhkui

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 16, 2026

Here’s Zohran explaining that his parents shaped his ideology, raising questions about how much influence his father had on his obsession with and hatred for the Jewish state.

Many people know Zohran Mamdani’s father, Mahmood Mamdani, as a terror-apologist and antisemitic radical.

“But that’s his father, not him,” you might say.

Here’s Zohran explaining that his parents shaped his ideology, raising questions about how much influence his father had… pic.twitter.com/Al70ROfdKC

— Canary Mission (@canarymission) July 27, 2026

More:

Here’s Zohran Mamdani’s father writing an intellectual justification for suicide bombers in his book ‘Good Muslim, Bad Muslim’

Columbia Professor Mahmood Mamdani: “We need to recognize the suicide bomber, first and foremost, as a category of soldier. Does not the suicide bomber… https://t.co/RRFrgoBuXw pic.twitter.com/QM2qQeZlLK

— Drew Pavlou (@DrewPavlou) October 26, 2025

Awful.

Democrat Elections
NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s professor father claimed Hitler inspired by Abraham Lincoln

By Alec Schemmel, Fox News, July 6, 2025:

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s father, a longtime academic and Ivy League professor, said during a 2022 panel discussion about one of his many books that Adolf Hitler drew his inspiration for the Holocaust from Abraham Lincoln.

The younger Mamdani, a self-proclaimed socialist, has credited his parents with providing him a “privileged upbringing,” one that included frequent discussions on politics and global affairs, according to a New York Times profile on the mayoral candidate and his parents. Mamdani’s mother is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker.

During a 2022 panel discussion hosted by the Asia Society, Mamdani’s father, Mahmood, asserted that America was the “genesis of what we call settler-colonialism” around the world.

“With the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations, they herded American Indians into separate territories,” Mamdani, Columbia’s Herbert Lehman professor of government, said. “For the Nazis, this was the inspiration – Hitler realized two things: one, that genocide is doable. It is possible to do genocide, that’s what Hitler realized. Second thing Hitler realized, is that you don’t have to have a common citizenship.”

Zohran Mamdani and his parents at election victory party
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani stands with his mother Mira Nair and father Mahmood Mamdani during an election night gathering at The Greats of Craft LIC on June 24, 2025, in Queens, New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The elder Mamdani also argued during the talk that the racist and antisemitic Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany “were patterned after American laws.”

Other comments included claims that there is no difference between “nationalism and colonialism” and that the Allied forces during World War II shared the same goals as the Nazis.

“The Nazi political project was shared by the Allies, and that political project was to turn Germany into a ‘pure’ nation. A ‘pure’ nation rid of its minorities,” Mamdani said at the Asia Society event. “When the Allies defeated the Nazis and went into Eastern Europe, they began to create ‘pure’ nations. To ethnically cleanse Eastern Europe of Germans – move them back into Germany. One crime doesn’t wipe out another.”

Following the political upset in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, critics began unearthing videos of the younger Mamdani espousing similarly radical views.

One of those moments came from remarks the NYC mayoral candidate made at a Young Democratic Socialists of America conference in 2021, during which he told attendees not to compromise on goals like “seizing the means of production.”

In an interview about his book, “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror,” the older Mamdani asserts that the term “suicide bomber” is a misnomer because they are no different from “soldier[s] whose objective is to kill.”