New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani reacted to the outpouring of hate he received after hosting his first iftar at New York City Hall. Andar Mamdani was called an enemy and in response, NYC’s first Muslim mayor said there should be a similar outcry from politicians in Washington when children go hungry. Mamdani responded to Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville’s post, writing, “There should be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when children are hungry as there is when I break bread with the people of New York.” The enemy is inside the gate.Mamdani’s hosting of an iftar where he had invited community members and was seen breaking the fast by sitting on the floor, turned into a meme as trolls compared the photo to 9/11. New York Senator Chuck Schumer came to Mamdani’s defense and called out Tuberville’s Islamophobia. Schumer wrote, “This is mindless hate. Muslim Americans are police, doctors, nurses, teachers, bankers, masons, mothers, fathers, neighbors, mayors, and more. This kind of Islamophobic hate is fundamentally un-American and we must confront and overcome it whenever it rears its ugly head.” MAGA activist Laura Loomer also alleged that one of the guests at Mamdani’s iftar gathering gave an ISIS finger salute. Loomer posted, “A Muslim who was invited by @ZohranKMamdani to the NYC Mayoral Residence for Ramadan Iftar yesterday gave a one-finger ISIS salute inside the Gracie Mansion. This comes after 2 ISIS terrorists bombed Americans in NYC this weekend.”Before this iftar gathering, Mamdani was criticized for hosting a dinner for Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil and his family to mark the one-year anniversary of Khalil’s arrest. “A year ago, Mahmoud was driving home through our city after having iftar with his wife, Noor, when he was detained by federal agents, taken to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. At that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. This is all for exercising our First Amendment rights to protest the ongoing genocide in Palestine,” Mamdani wrote. “Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he’s from New York City.”