Mamdani will VETO NYC schools ‘buffer zone’ bill — he’s determined to protect anti-ICE, pro-Hamas student protesters

Mamdani wants to make sure that patriotic Americans who support ICE, and oppose the jihad against Israel, will be terrorized as much as possible in his New York City. He doesn’t want to allow them to have any place where they feel safe. Even as their children go to school, he wants them hounded, harassed, vilified, and terrorized. It’s plain evil. And it’s what New Yorkers voted for.

“Mamdani to veto NYC schools ‘buffer zone’ bill to protect anti-ICE, pro-Palestinian student protesters,” by Craig McCarthy, New York Post, April 24, 2026:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani will veto a bill creating a “buffer zone” around schools for protests because he worries it’ll stifle demonstrations against ICE or in support of Palestinian rights.

The move announced Friday would be the first veto of Mamdani’s tenure, likely killing the bill sponsored by Eric Dinowitz (D-Bronx) – which passed the City Council 30-19, just shy of a veto-proof majority.

The potential law was identical to another bill, which passed the same day last month, that requires a no-protest zone to be set up around synagogues and other houses of worship in the Big Apple.

But the religious buffer zone bill, which had been championed by Speaker Julie Menin (D-Manhattan), sailed through the council on the same day with an overwhelming majority, 44-5.

Hizzoner, along with his lefty comrades, has signalled skepticism over Dinowitz’s no-protest zones outside of schools.

Sources said Mamdani has informed the council he plans to sign the veto as early as Friday morning….

The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America went on full offense ahead of the vote in late March, launching a phone bank campaign to drum up support to try to kill both of the bills.

Pro-Palestinian student protesters outside NYU, one holding a sign that reads “FREE PALESTINE” and “END ALL AID TO ISRAEL.”

“These bills expand the capacity of the NYPD to police and surveil Black, brown, and immigrant New Yorkers, jeopardizing the safety of protestors exercising their First Amendment rights and students attending school,” they wrote…