CCP-Linked Heiress Leads “Jews for Zohran” Campaign to Shield Anti-Israel Socialist — Is Mamdani a Foreign Asset in Disguise?

According to a report that first appeared in the New York Post, a shadowy network of far-left operatives tied to a Chinese-based billionaire may be working behind the scenes to prop up Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — raising questions about foreign influence in New York City’s political system.

At the center of the controversy is Alicia Singham Goodwin, the niece of Neville Roy Singham — a Marxist tech tycoon now living in Shanghai who has funneled tens of millions of dollars into radical activist groups aligned with Chinese Communist Party messaging. Goodwin is leading the “Jews for Zohran” initiative, a political operation widely seen as a cynical attempt to give Mamdani — who has defended slogans like “Globalize the Intifada” — cover from mounting accusations of antisemitism.

In a July 1 radio interview on communist radio station WBAI, Goodwin bragged about targeting Jewish voters: “We had our own voter file … and for phone banks that were only Jewish voters, and had, like, Jews talking to Jews,” she said. “We developed early on these talking points about antisemitism and a way for volunteers to engage.”

As the New York Post noted, the group is now working with city Comptroller Brad Lander and Rep. Jerry Nadler to pressure high-profile Jewish officials like Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Dan Goldman to endorse Mamdani — a move that many say would whitewash his record of inflammatory anti-Israel rhetoric.

Former City Councilman Rory Lancman slammed the effort as dangerous. “The demonization of Israel leads to the demonization of Jews who support Israel,” Lancman told the Post. “Receiving the endorsement of Jewish elected officials represents a normalization of the demonization of Israel and the demonization of Jews that naturally flows from that.”

But the story goes even deeper.

Alicia Singham Goodwin’s mother, Shanti Singham, is a department chair at East China Normal University in Shanghai — a state-run institution — and has promoted China’s Confucius Institutes, which U.S. security experts have called soft-power tools of Beijing’s propaganda machine.

Her father, Daniel Goodwin, was longtime general counsel and executive at ThoughtWorks — Roy Singham’s former software firm — and both parents donated $4,200 to Mamdani’s campaign and affiliated PACs from their penthouse in Morningside Heights.

Since selling ThoughtWorks for $785 million in 2017, Roy Singham has taken up residence in China and, as the Free Beacon reported, poured funding into far-left groups including CodePink — an organization led by his wife Jodie Evans that parrots CCP messaging on issues ranging from Taiwan to U.S. foreign policy. Social media photos show Evans and Goodwin posing with Mamdani at campaign events.

While there’s no public evidence proving Mamdani is knowingly working on behalf of foreign interests, the connections have led some political observers to speculate: is Mamdani an unwitting puppet in a broader effort to destabilize America’s largest city through radical policies and foreign-aligned ideological subversion?

His platform — defunding the NYPD, dismantling capitalism, dramatically raising taxes, decriminalizing crime, and attacking Israel — reads like a dream for foreign adversaries who would love to see America’s financial and cultural capital brought to its knees from within.

House Republicans, as the Post noted, have raised flags about Singham’s suspected influence in U.S. protest movements and have pushed for investigations into whether he is operating as a de facto foreign agent.

For now, neither Mamdani nor any member of the Singham family has responded to requests for comment.

But in a political era where foreign meddling has become more sophisticated — using nonprofits, influencers, and even identity-based groups as camouflage — it’s worth asking: Is “Jews for Zohran” truly a grassroots movement, or is it just a cleverly branded shield to advance the ambitions of global actors (CCP)  who despise the very system Mamdani seeks to dismantle?