Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams was confronted by an irate anti-Israel passenger on a recent flight who recorded herself hurling obscenities at him and slamming his policies as mayor.
Footage of the incident Monday captured the bewildered leader looking into the camera as the person holding it screamed "F--- you!" and accused him of partying while New York City falls apart and supporting "genocide."
"Are you Eric Adams?" the unknown woman asked, going up to the mayor as he sat in the middle seat next to what appeared to be an aide. Adams appeared to nod, after which the passenger launched into her tirade.
"Yeah? F--- you! You support the genocide in Palestine. There are homeless people all over New York. You’re always partying! You don’t actually care about the citizens of New York," the woman yelled.
By this point, the gentleman sitting to Adam’s left could be seen standing up and attempting to block the passenger from getting too close to the mayor.
Undeterred, the woman blasted the mayor for being out of town while there are major issues to be dealt with in his city.
"Why are in you in Miami?" she asked, adding, "You know that people are being arrested there. People are homeless in New York. People cannot afford food. You keep cutting the education budget, so you can fund the police!"
"That’s all you care about! Funding the police!" she yelled. "Everything is underfunded because of you!"
Exasperated passengers could be heard telling the passenger she is holding up the line. The video ended with her walking down the aisle toward her seat.
The woman, who identified herself as "Pro Palestinian Flyer," said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital that Adams didn't deserve to be treated peacefully.
"I would also like it mentioned wherever it's posted because I think it's important context that I was motivated because I don't believe that politicians like Eric Adams deserve any peace," she said. "Adams proudly supports the genocide in Palestine, where over 34,000 people have been murdered, including 14,000 children in the span of 6 months. Millions of people have been displaced and are being deliberately starved by the Israeli government's refusal to allow food or medicine in, and when that aid is seldomly [sic] let in, the IDF directly targets and kills Palestinians trying to get the aid. While Adams was flying back from Miami, hundreds of college students and faculty protesters who were calling for a ceasefire and end to the occupation were being violently arrested by the NYPD at the behest of Eric Adams. I am forced to work hard at my job everyday so that my tax dollars can go towards sending more weapons to kill children and more policing in NYC rather than being invested in our schools (recently the education budget was cut my $500M), libraries, social programs, and housing. I strongly believe that if Palestinians don't get peace, if protestors don't get peace, if New Yorkers don't get peace, then Eric Adams most definitely does not deserve peace anywhere, any time."
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Adams has been criticized for an apparently lavish lifestyle. The New York Times published a piece in 2022 detailing how Adams and his entourage would often go out to "expensive city restaurants and nightclubs" and may not have been paying for the outings.
At the time, Adams team called this report a "silly, silly story."
The New York Post reported that the mayor’s office stated that Adams was visiting Miami for a Monday conference and that he had traveled to the city the previous Sunday only to return Monday evening.
The same day he left for Miami, Adams slammed the ongoing anti-Israel protests going on at Columbia, stating, "I am horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and around the Columbia University campus."
Blasting students and other demonstrators who promoted pro-Hamas propaganda during the rallies, he added, "I condemn this hate speech in the strongest of terms. Supporting a terrorist organization that aims to kill Jews is sickening and despicable. As I have repeatedly said, hate has no place in our city, and I have instructed the NYPD to investigate any violation of law that is reported."
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