The facts
On Thursday evening, the Children of Abraham Peace Walk, started a year after the 2001 attacks, retraced a Manhattan route for the 25th anniversary. The New York Post reported more than 100 people walked. The route started at Hebrew Union College, stopped at Judson Memorial Church, and finished at the Islamic Center of New York City.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined only the final stop at the Islamic Center, the Post reported, and delivered remarks there honoring 9/11 victims and first responders. He has faced a petition, now past 110,000 signatures, asking him to skip Ground Zero ceremonies. He attended the official memorial Friday anyway, shook Rudy Giuliani's hand, and later spoke at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, the only house of worship destroyed on 9/11.
The walk's flyer said it was to "come together to remember those we've lost, and to recommit to our shared vision of safety in solidarity."
Our take
Interfaith means you walk the whole stupid route. Synagogue, church, mosque. That is the bit. Mamdani, the first Muslim mayor, skipped the Jews and the Christians and clocked in at the Islamic Center, then gave a speech about solidarity. Solidarity is easier when you only attend your own building.
He went to Ground Zero the next morning. He went to the Greek church later. Fine. Thursday night he still treated the interfaith walk like a buffet where you take the last dish. The petition families wanted him gone from the plaza. He showed up there. The walk was the easier test, the one with three doors, and he used one.
Nobody is owed a mayor at every pew. He put his name on a three-stop memorial and made one stop. That is the whole story. The flyer said shared vision. The calendar said he had somewhere else to be until it was the mosque.
