Leaked documents reveal DSA’s blueprint for Zohran Mamdani’s radical administration

According to a leaked strategy file from the group’s Anti-War Working Group (AWWG), obtained by Just the News, the DSA intends to “make the terms clear going in” for Mamdani’s administration, explicitly linking its support to his willingness to carry out the organization’s agenda. Notes from internal meetings stress the need to “make it clear to electeds that if they want our support, our priorities matter. Make the terms clear going in, public statement on 1st day. However focus on policies and actions, not statements in response to bad faith questions from press.”

The document, AWWG Palestine Policy Meeting Agenda & Notes (November 2, 2025), reads as a blueprint for how DSA expects Mamdani to govern. It urges his administration to divest city pension funds from Israeli bonds, pull city deposits from banks doing business with Israel, and cancel municipal contracts with Israeli-linked companies. It calls for banning Israeli products from city-run grocery stores, revoking nonprofit status from charities that support the Israel Defense Forces, evicting weapons manufacturers from the metro area, dismantling the NYC–Israel Economic Council established under NYC Mayor Eric Adams, and severing all NYPD cooperation with the Israeli military. The plan even proposes arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and active IDF officials for alleged war crimes.

The notes detail how activists plan to pressure Mamdani to appoint ideologically aligned staff, coordinate with sympathetic legislators, and mobilize the same volunteer network that powered his campaign to enforce DSA priorities inside City Hall. “Provide a plan for him to implement,” one section reads. “Pressure him to staff with people whose values are aligned.”

These expectations mirror a national pattern of ideological control visible across DSA chapters. DSA endorsement questionnaires from Seattle and Metro DC obtained by The Ari Hoffman Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI impose nearly identical litmus tests on DSA-backed candidates. In Seattle, a 2019 questionnaire required candidates to support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, pledge to end police cooperation with the Israeli Defense Forces, and oppose “imperialist foreign policy.” Local issues such as rent control, corporate taxes, and drug decriminalization were tied to these foreign policy positions.

A 2024 Metro DC DSA questionnaire went further, requiring candidates to endorse BDS, refuse any ties to organizations such as AIPAC or J Street, and oppose adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism because it “harms Palestinians.” Candidates were also asked to commit to supporting legislation that defunds and sanctions Israel and to attend regular meetings with DSA’s “Socialists in Office” committee to ensure ongoing compliance once elected.

On immigration, DSA chapters call for sweeping open-border and abolitionist policies that go far beyond traditional sanctuary protections. Candidates must support designating their jurisdictions as sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants, oppose all cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and back the outright abolition of ICE. They are instructed to reject migrant detention centers, guarantee benefits for all residents regardless of status, and treat immigration enforcement as an element of the same “imperialist” system DSA links to Israel, policing, and capitalism. These positions reveal a movement seeking not to reform immigration but to erase the concept of national sovereignty in socialist terms.

On gender and reproductive issues, DSA frames its platform around “bodily autonomy” and socialist feminism. Its Metro DC Bodily Autonomy Working Group calls for the “democratization of care work,” the end of legal recognition of the gender binary, the decriminalization of sex work, unrestricted abortion access, and universal gender-affirming healthcare, including for minors. Candidates must support abortion “free at the point of service,” oppose religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws, and pledge to fight “patriarchal capitalist oppression” through policy. These demands link feminism and LGBTQ activism to DSA’s broader project of dismantling traditional social structures and redistributing labor and resources.

Across all these categories, DSA-endorsed candidates are expected to govern as extensions of the movement itself, not as independent representatives accountable to voters. That approach was underscored by activist Linda Sarsour, a DSA member and longtime Mamdani ally, who warned in a livestream that “electing Zohran doesn’t mean we’re going to let him do whatever the hell he wants.” The AWWG notes echo her words, describing a structure in which outside DSA activists dictate priorities to those in office.

Behind the rhetoric of “anti-imperialism” lies a coordinated campaign to institutionalize anti-Israel discrimination within local government. The AWWG document calls for boycotts of Israeli entities, the revocation of charitable status for groups that support Israel, and even criminal penalties for those maintaining partnerships with Israeli institutions. The Metro DC questionnaire insists candidates shun mainstream Jewish organizations entirely and oppose legislation that recognizes antisemitism as hostility toward Israel. Taken together, these plans reveal a deliberate effort to embed hostility to Israel, and by extension, to many in the Jewish community, into municipal policy.

That ideology has already surfaced in public. On October 8, 2023, while Hamas terrorists were still massacring civilians in Israel, the New York City DSA organized a pro-Hamas rally in Times Square, where protesters burned Israeli flags, waved swastikas, and chanted in support of “resistance.”