Can Zohran Mamdani denounce Islamic terror on 9/11 without blaming US, Israel?

Go ahead, Zohan Mamdani — make my day.

Say something stupid about 9/11. Those of us who’ll take anybody else for mayor, even a Times Square Elmo, will thank you for it.

Please don’t give us an unequivocal condemnation of the 9/11 perpetrators — without parceling out the blame on America, George W. Bush, capitalism, “neocolonialism,” Israel or Zionism.

Mamdani is so far ahead in polls, many New Yorkers regard him as mayor-in-waiting. But I suspect it’s because they don’t know about, or ignore, just how abhorrent his beliefs are.

Consider his history, including recent history, of cozying up to the worst terrorist running-dogs. Like his cheerful sit-down and handshake in April with “influencer” Hasan Pike, who’s on record as saying that the United States “deserved” the 9/11 attack.

The Democratic-socialist mayoral nominee has thus far himself said nothing, zero, nada, bupkis, in his campaign about the imminent anniversary of the single worst day in New York City’s history.

New Yorkers might quibble over the school system or property taxes. There’s no quibbling over 9/11.

But the chance for an unqualified Mamdani condemnation of the terror attack without ideological asterisks attached is as remote as if he suddenly renounced “progressive” economics in favor of free enterprise.

The slaughter of 2,996 people, the destruction of 30 million square feet of downtown property and the crippling of subways and broadcast facilities were not an ancient event.

Their legacy haunts us to this day.

Nearly 50,000 first-responders and others near Ground Zero at the time have suffered multiple forms of cancer.

The World Trade Center area remains unfinished 24 years later. That it’s still one skyscraper short of a full quartet reflects the pall that hung over Downtown in the attack’s aftermath.

I was proud to be part of the New York Post’s years-long support for rebuilding, which flew in the face of prevailing political and ideological winds.

Had we not held City Hall’s and Albany’s feet to the fire, had we not called out other media and elected officials for obstructing reconstruction, the 16-acre site would today be as barren as it was 20 years ago.

Mamdani has no interest in the World Trade Center — or in anything to do with the true life of the city.

What little he’s said or downplayed in the past relating to Islamic terrorism isn’t comforting. He refused to condemn and disavow the phrase “globalize the intifada,” widely used by haters of Israel — he merely would “discourage” its use.

He had close ties with academic As’ad Abu Khalil, who essentially blamed the United States for the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

He criticized the FBI’s surveillance of al-Qaeda member Anwar al-Awlaki, who vowed to make terrorism “as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea” until we put out his lights with a well-aimed drone.

Now is Mamdani’s chance to make everyone forget his past record and say the right thing about 9/11. Is he capable of it?