By CAIR
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When Columbia University students were smeared by New York’s political class and brutalized by the New York Police Department for protesting the genocide in Gaza, few of them probably imagined how the tides would turn in New York City just one year later.
Yet those young people and so many other New Yorkers did the seemingly impossible by turning out to vote in massive numbers and electing a Muslim mayor who recognizes and opposes the genocide they protested to lead New York City. His election is, in many ways, their victory too.
Nihad Awad is the National Executive Director and co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States.
