India, July 8 -- New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, on his campaign trail, had visited a Brooklyn mosque whose cleric had last year called for the "annihilation of Israel".

In a photo posted by Zohran Mamdani on social media, he can be seen standing beside cleric Sheikh Muhammad Al-Barr at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge.

"It was a privilege to join Jummah prayers at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge today," Mamdani captioned the January 17 post.

The post was made five months after Al-Barr's sermon at the Brooklyn mosque, wherein he appealed to God to "liberate Palestine from the occupiers and the plunderers".

"Oh Allah, annihilate those who occupied their lands, and those who betrayed and deserted them, and those who spill...