New York City: Breaking with a decades-long political custom, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Sunday skipped Israel Day Parade. The parade is organised every year honouring Israel. Notably, the Israel Day parade has always been a must-attend event for mayors, governors and other political leaders. Every year people gatther on Fifth Avenue to celebrate the birth of the Jewish state in 1948. Mamadani reportedly skipped the annual event because of his support of Palestinian rights.Meanwhile, ex-NewYork mayors attended the event. Two weeks ago, Mamdani's office released a video commemorating the Nakba, an Arabic word for "catastrophe" that is used to describe the displacement of an estimated 700,000 Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel's establishment. "I said on the campaign trail that I wouldn't be attending the parade, and I've made my views on the Israeli government abundantly clear," Mamdani said at a news conference on Thursday. But he also promised a robust police presence to make sure it went off "seamlessly and peacefully." The city's police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, who is Jewish, also did attend the parade. ON Thursday she said, ""It is the mayor's decision not to march, and it is my decision to march proudly." Also Read: 'No Way Bro Made an Arsenal Kurta': Zohran Mamdani’s Eid Drip Breaks the Internet Mamdani's opponents are criticising him for not attending the Israel Day Parade. Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue on Long Island and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, which advocates for better relationships between Jews and Muslims, called Mamdani's decision to not attend the parade "a slap in the face to all Jewish New Yorkers," reported The Associated Press. "Do us a favour, stay home," he said. "We don't need you. We don't want you." Schneier also slammed Mamdani's Nakba video as "propaganda," echoing concerns from other Jewish leaders who said it excluded context about Jewish peoples' displacement during the period. City mayor, featured the story of a woman who was displaced at 9 years old, interspersed with text about the Nakba, as she described a feeling of missing home, saying "it's the soft hills of Palestine that actually touched me." "I've lived in different places, and I've always been an outsider," said the woman, Inea Bushnaq. Supporters of Israel were outraged, saying the video should have acknowledged the mass displacement of Jews from Muslim-majority countries or the role that the mass slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust played in the drive to establish a Jewish state. Mayors in New York City, which has America's largest Jewish population, have long been visible supporters of Israel, often visiting the country. Notably, Mamdani is New York's first Muslin mayor. He has remained steadfast in his pro-Palestinian advocacy. Get Latest News Live on Times Now along with Breaking News and Top Headlines from US News and around the World.