If you only read the first 49 words of Mayor Mamdani’s statement marking the three-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks, you might’ve thought you were witnessing another New York miracle — like the Knicks winning it all after 53 years without a title, or Captain Sully landing that plane on the Hudson.

Here, after all, was the mayor, plainly stating the facts: 1,100 Israelis killed and 251 abducted in an attack that can only be called a horrific war crime.

But the artist formerly known as Mr. Cardamom, it soon turned out, hasn’t really changed his tune since he rapped lovingly about the Holy Land Five, Muslim community leaders indicted for funneling millions to Hamas.

The bit about dead Israelis, it turned out, was only throat-clearing.

The main act was precisely what you’d expect from Mamdani: bluster and bigotry, a perfect crescendo of performative Third Worldism.

Genocide! Apartheid! Starvation! Journalists targeted for telling the truth!

The mayor’s statement reads like a greatest-hits compilation of all the depraved lies we’ve been hearing for the past three years from those whose main passion is cheering for Jew killers.

Fist bump to base

How to respond to such an intellectually feeble, morally repugnant and utterly pernicious statement?

A normal person’s first instinct is to counter Mamdani’s fabrications with facts — reminding him, say, that an overwhelming majority of so-called journalists killed by the Israel Defense Forces turned out to be terror operatives.

Or explaining, yet again, that “genocide” is a preposterous term to use considering that Gaza’s population grew by 2% in 2024 alone, and that its elected leaders could’ve ended the war at any time simply by returning the hostages they brutally kidnapped from their homes.

But Mamdani doesn’t care about the facts.

His statement wasn’t an ill-conceived blunder: It was a deliberate fist bump to his base, reassuring the terror aficionados marching up and down our streets and waving Hamas and Hezbollah flags that he’s still committed to their cause — the cause of Jew and America hatred.

It leaves not only New York’s Jews but all New Yorkers in an unimaginably tough spot.

What to do when the man entrusted with your safety and well-being is gleefully siding with the ghouls committed to slaughtering you no matter the cost?

Protests, sharply worded statements, political pressure and all the other tools of civic engagement don’t seem to work.

The mayor doubles down on his dedication to demonizing the Jews not only in word but also in deed: This week, we learned that his so-called strategy to combat antisemitism includes handing a cool $6 million to a group partnered with none other than Linda Sarsour, who had to resign her leadership of the Women’s March after blatantly discriminating against its Jewish members.

And with his recent screed, Mamdani gave us the clearest indication yet since assuming office that he remains staunchly on the side of America’s sworn enemies, standing with the genocidal jihadis rather than with the West trying to curb their murderous violence.

Message is clear

Mamdani’s made his statement.

It’s now time for the rest of us to make ours.

Let’s make sure the mayor pays a price for his prejudice.

Let’s explore every legal avenue available to hold him accountable for spreading hate and lies.

And, most important, let’s build a coalition that gives him and his fellow radicals the boot in 2029.

Shame on Mamdani, for once again showing himself to be a rank little bigot.

But shame on us, too, if we don’t do what New Yorkers do best — and give this petty hater an unvarnished and impolite piece of our mind.

Liel Leibovitz is editor at large for Tablet and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.