New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has faced renewed online criticism after commentators highlighted that his annual 9/11 tribute messages have changed little in wording since 2019, prompting accusations that the tributes are formulaic or insincere. Critics, including Israel-based venture capitalist Adam Fisher and former Democrat David Sivella, argue the posts draw a moral equivalence between American victims and those killed fighting al Qaeda, and note that Mamdani rarely mentions first responders while frequently posting about Gaza.

The pattern reportedly began after 2019, around the time Mamdani was first pursuing a seat in the New York State Assembly, which he won in 2020, with each subsequent 9/11 post largely repeating the same phrasing with only the year altered. Commentators also pointed to similar repetition in his Holocaust Remembrance Day messages between 2021 and 2023, which used near-identical wording each year. The renewed scrutiny comes amid separate efforts by 9/11 families and Republican senators to have Mamdani excluded from the 25th-anniversary remembrance ceremony over what they describe as his "hostile" record.