Why Zohran Beat Israel with Sumaya Awad, Beth Miller & Milton Perez

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Katie talks to Sumaya Awad and Beth Miller about Zohran Mamdani's victory. Then she talks to Milton Perez about homelessness in New York and what Zohran can do about it. Sumaya Awad is a Palestinian New Yorker, writer and organizer and member of NYC-DSA. She is co-editor of "Palestine: A Socialist Introduction." Beth Miller is the political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, where she spearheads the organization’s Congressional advocacy and electoral organizing. Beth has worked in the movement for Palestinian rights since 2011. Milton Perez, from The Bronx and Puerto Rico, is a Leader in VOCAL, New York's Homelessness Union. He is an advocate for those experiencing homelessness, the formerly homeless and the housing insecure. He is a lived experience consultant after Spending Over 5 Years in The Shelter System. https://secure.everyaction.com/BBiVzIl67UOTB9bk0nJzLw2 ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kthalps Follow Katie on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@kthalps

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0:41.4	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Katie Helper Show.
0:45.0	We are so excited to be here with you in Zoramam Dhani's New York City.
0:50.6	Zoran Mamdani's America.
0:52.3	It's all of our New York City and all of our America, but we're definitely excited to have him be part of it on a mayoral level.
0:59.7	And of course, everyone knows he won the election, and that's very exciting.
1:03.3	And we've been covering on this show, his campaign.
1:06.9	We interviewed him in 2023 about the Gaza hunger strike that he was engaging in.
1:12.1	We talked to him about his activism around taxi drivers.
1:15.9	And so we are really excited that he won the election.
1:18.2	He got that famous Katie Halper show bump.
1:20.2	I think we can all agree.
1:21.2	That was the make or break moment was when he went on the show in 2023.
1:24.7	And we are so excited to have a recap show where we talk about this, about how it
1:29.8	happened, what's going to happen next. And we're going to introduce those guests shortly. But
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