Mayor Mamdani’s First Act: Greenlighting the Persecution of Zionist Jews
By scrapping IHRA, killing anti-BDS safeguards, and rolling back an effort to protect synagogues, New York’s new mayor gave government sanction to the abuse of Zionists
With a stroke of his pen Thursday, Zohran Mamdani sent an unmistakable message to Zionist Jews of New York City: so long as they support Israel, their new mayor will work to protect those who seek to abuse and persecute them.
On his first day in office, Mamdani issued a sweeping executive order that erased the city’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism, undid a plan to protect synagogues from antizionist racist demonstrators, and stripped the city of its firewall against boycotts of Israel. It was a statement of priorities by the 34-year-old socialist antizionist. And it made clear that targeting Zionism - and by extension most of the city’s Jews - will be a defining feature of Mamdani’s mayoralty.
