‘Jewish’ NY Congress Candidate Prays in Mosque As Imam Calls for Killing Infidels

Brad Lander, a close Zohran Mamdani ally, who repeatedly claims to be Jewish, while covering for Mamdani and every other leftist and Islamist, took it to a whole new level. So much so he ended up on MEMRI.

In a truly astonishing video, Brad Lander speaks at a mosque, repeats the Hamas propaganda about “genocide”, while claiming to be a “proud Jew”, recites an Islamic prayer, and the Imam prays for the death of infidels.

Brad Lander, a Democratic primary candidate for New York’s 10th Congressional District, recited a verse from the Quran in Arabic during a May 15, 2026 visit to the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Queens, New York. Describing himself as “a proud Jewish New Yorker,” Lander said that what he called “Israel’s genocide in Gaza” violates the belief that all people are created in God’s image. He added that if elected to Congress, he hopes to build the same kind of partnership he has with Zohran Mamdani alongside Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

Following his remarks, the imam led the congregation in a supplication asking that relief come to the believers through the Mahdi and through the killing of infidels by his sword.

NY Democratic Congressional Candidate Brad Lander Recites Quran Verse at Queens Mosque, Says He Hopes to Partner in Congress with Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib; Imam Prays for Mahdi to Kill Infidels with His Sword pic.twitter.com/s4FWPLUaI5

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 21, 2026

It’s not as if this is even new, Mamdani had been previously criticized for being at the mosque during the prayers to kill infidels. So Lander could very well have known about it and was fine with the murder of non-Muslims.

There’s probably no way to top this video. It’s the absolute peak of “as a Jewness” so much that you would almost think that it’s ‘Rabbi Linda’ style satire if you didn’t know that Brad Lander is all too real.

“I believe, as a proud Jewish New Yorker, that Israel’s genocide in Gaza is a desecration,” Brad Lander declares. “In Congress I will not vote for any more U.S. military aid to Israel – not the bombs that are destroying the hospitals and schools in Gaza, and not the occupation in Lebanon, which is now I believe unfortunately on its way potentially to being a genocide as well.”

These people started out in Peace Now and J Street and then went on to If Not Now, it’s 2026, and by 2030, they’ll be actively cheering the murder of Jews while claiming that they’re “proud Jews”.

The mosque predictably is alleged to have ties to Iran.

Then there’s Brad Lander’s Islamic recitation which can be seen as an acknowledgement of the Islamic deity: surely a very Jewish moment. Perhaps a little joke on him by whichever Muslim staffer prepped him for it.

The recitation is Surah Al-Ikhlas Chapter 112 of the Koran. Here’s Chapter 109. “In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful. Say, “O disbelievers, I do not worship what you worship. Nor are you worshippers of what I worship. Nor will I be a worshipper of what you worship. Nor will you be worshippers of what I worship. For you is your religion, and for me is my religion.”

Perhaps Brad Lander should have read that one instead.