SNOPES: WHY SOME 9/11 FAMILIES SIGNED PETITION TO EXCLUDE MAMDANI FROM MEMORIAL EVENT: CLAIM RATED AS TRUE

 

They have rated the claim as “True”:

That petition was real and had more than 60,000 signatures at the time of this writing.

Giovanni Galante, whose wife died in the 9/11 attacks, started the petition, which asked organizers of the 25th-anniversary commemoration ceremony to "carefully consider whether Mr. Mamdani's participation would align with the intention of the ceremony and the expectations of the families most directly affected by the tragedy."

Meryl Mayo-Marshall, whose husband died on 9/11, also told local media she had signed the petition and shared her comments in a Facebook post.

Given the above, we've rated the claim that some families of 9/11 victims signed a petition aimed at excluding Mamdani from the ceremony as true.

Contrary to what some posts suggested, there was no evidence that the petition and its request to consider excluding Mamdani from the 9/11 commemoration ceremony represented the views of all of the families of the 2,976 people killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Galante reportedly estimated that up to 7,500 relatives of victims had signed the petition, but told the self-described progressive Substack newsletter Popular Information that his estimate was not based on the actual list of signatories.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mamdani-911-families-petition/

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NOTE AS OF 8/3 LATE AFTERNOON, THE PETITION IS AT OVER 72,000 SIGNATURES AND CLIMBING Petition · Please sign to support honoring the memory of those lost on September 11th with dignity. - United States · Change.org