(Queens Chronicle) Muslim communities in South Queens, which formerly had expressed support of Eric Adams’ mayoral bid, have reined it in over the past month based on his comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The political arm of the Yemeni American Merchants Association, an organization with wide roots in Queens and Brooklyn, which was on track to issue an endorsement of Adams, decided against it at the last moment.
Kaled Alamarie, a Yemeni-American candidate for City Council in District 32, who has visited mosques around Ozone Park on a weekly basis throughout his campaign, said that the tenor of the area’s Muslim community suddenly shifted when Adams took a firm pro-Israel stance amid the days of violence between Hamas and Israel in May.
