New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met Mustapha Kharbouch, a Palestinian student at Brown University who was falsely accused online of being involved in a campus shooting. The accusations began after his photo wearing a keffiyeh circulated on social media, leading to death threats and intense Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian abuse. US authorities later identified the real shooter as a former Brown University attendee who acted alone and died by suicide.