Add The New York Post on Google The over 100,000 mourners of 9/11 victims opposed to Zohran Mamdani’s attendance at the 25th anniversary memorial are now receiving celebrity support.
Banging his gavel in the name of respect for the 2,977 lives lost on September 11, 2001, Adam Levy, son of world-renowned Judge Judith “Judy” Sheindlin, and star jurist of forthcoming CBS series “Adam’s Law,” is unabashedly backing the throng of protestors who’ve called for Mamdani’s exclusion from this year’s annual remembrance ceremony at Ground Zero, Friday, at 8:46 a.m.
The Bronx native, who was a private-practice attorney at the time of the attack, even deemed the mayor’s dealings, as well as those of Gov. Kathy Hochul, “disgusting,” telling The Post that both leaders are “hypocrites.”
A petition for Mamdani’s ban from the tribute, launched by Giovanni Galante — whose wife, Grace, 29, was killed during the terrorist attack — cites Hizzoner’s reluctance to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” and his associations with individuals like his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who previously represented an al-Qaeda tanker-bombing pilot, as grounds for his status as persona non grata.
Protestors marched on City Hall Tuesday, presenting the petition to Kassem’s chief of staff.
“For 9/11 families, this is not simply a public ceremony — it is a deeply personal day of mourning,” reads the Change.org call to action, with nearly 110,000 signatures (and counting). “The presence of individuals whose words or associations are perceived as conflicting with the solemn purpose of the event risks detracting from that focus and causing additional pain.”
Grieving loved ones, including Galante, plan to completely “ignore” Mamdani, who, despite the demands for his absence, has previously vowed to “proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders forever impacted by that horrific terror attack by standing alongside them at this year’s 9/11 commemoration.”
But a skeptical, critical Levy, 57, says the mayor’s participation in the ceremony will be solely self-serving, rather than respectful.
“I have such little faith in those governing New York City and New York State,” said the NY District Attorney-turned-television judge. “Mamdani’s going to do what benefits him, and Hochul is going to do what benefits her. They’re both hypocrites.”
Levy echoed viral chides against Mamdani for his past controversial remarks and affiliations with anti-American agendas, such as views shared by Aber Kawas.
Kawas described 9/11 as an attack “a couple of people did in the context of U.S. capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia,” and Mahmood Mamdani, the mayor’s father, released a post-9/11 tome, suggesting that suicide bombers should be “understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism.”
Much like the detractors, Levy feels the mayor should stand by his suspicious sentiments, instead of standing alongside brokenhearted parents, spouses, children and friends this week.
“Don’t show up at this memorial when you’ve supported radical Islam in the past,” Levy spat in Mamdani’s direction. “Stand up for what you believe in. Stop talking out of both sides of your mouth.”
“His policies are disgusting. He doesn’t have any business being mayor, he should go back to being a rapper,” he scoffed, referring to the politician’s past profession as emcee “Mr. Cardamom.”
But Levy’s ire doesn’t end at City Hall.
“Hochul, she’s a coward,” he told The Post. “She’s got no business running the State of New York. Zero.”
“Do people feel safer walking down the street or taking the subway?” Levy posed before accusing Hochul and lenient local officials of doing “absolutely everything they can to appease the psychopaths and repeat criminal offenders” in and around the city to the detriment of law-abiding citizens.
“They should open up mental health, psychiatric facilities in locations where these government officials live,” he insisted, “rather than letting criminals loose into communities the politicians couldn’t give a damn about.”
Levy’s heart for do-the-right-thing justice, a quality he inherited from his matter-of-fact mama, Sheindlin, 83, is expressed with equal passion on his upcoming courtroom series, debuting Sept. 14.
From the bench, the legal luminary presides over wild cases brought by feuding plaintiffs and defendants, including everything from remorseless romance scammers fleecing their targets out of more than $14,000 to animal lovers defending their pet kangaroos against claims the marsupial bit a neighbor.
But Levy credits 9/11 with forever reshaping the way he handles every case that comes across his desk.
“I remember exactly where I was. I’d just arrived at my office in Putnam County, and began preparing for a trial scheduled for that day, when I saw that a plane had hit the first tower,” recalled Levy. “Watching the building go up in flames, then seeing the second tower hit and the building go down. It was surreal.”
From that moment, he vowed to use his litigious powers to fight for the innocent, honoring the innocent souls claimed by the al-Qaeda extremists.
“In the aftermath of 9/11, New Yorkers from every walk of life, every race, color, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, came together to rebuild this place we call home — and for the first week things were great, until they weren’t,” said Levy, lamenting over the division and disruption that plague the city and its neighboring counties. “Now, 25 years later, we couldn’t be more polarized.”
“We need to get back to a space where we’re doing good for one another, remembering that we all share the common goal of living in safety and harmony,” he added, rather than the turmoil that’s been spurred by New York’s easy-on-crime authorities.
“We need to remember how we all were on September 12, 2001,” said Levy, “and the legitimate love, respect and support we showed those in mourning.”
Levy’s “Adam’s Law” airs locally on WCBS-TV Channel 2 weekdays at 3:30 p.m.
