The New York mayoral candidate told a group of the city’s top business leaders that he would “discourage” use of the phrase.

City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani, who faced fierce backlash after declining to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” told a group of business leaders this week he decided to discourage its use after a recent conversation with a Jewish woman who told him the phrase evoked memories of violence.