Please tell me this does not surprise you.
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At least 20% of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition committee members have ties to radical anti-Zionist groups that “openly promote terror and harass Jewish people,” the Anti-Defamation League found in a stinging report Monday.
The ADL pinpointed several activists who have downplayed the horrors of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel or were involved in the anti-Israel encampments that sprung up on New York City college campuses last spring.
Roughly 80 of the 400 people named to staff Mamdani’s 17 transition committees “have a documented history of making or sharing anti-Zionist or anti-Israel statements,” the report found.
A handful were also found to have ties to the Nation of Islam or its antisemitic leader Louis Farrakhan, including Jacques Léandre, a member of the transition’s Committee on Legal Affairs, the ADL said.
The revealing report came less than a week after Mamdani’s director of appointments, Catherine Almonte Da Costa, was forced to resign when decade-old antisemitic and anti-police remarks she made on social media resurfaced — including rants about “money hungry Jews” and defunding NYPD “piggies.”
This is the team mamdani has assembled.
And let’s remember that the “at least 20%” statistic means those are just the ones that have been found/documented so far. Would you be surprised if the actual number is higher? A lot higher?
New York City has elected a rabidly anti-Israel, and, I think it is fair to surmise, rabidly anti-Jewish, self-avowed socialist as Mayor. Someone who thinks giving “the people” lots of free stuff…which is paid for by “rich people” and “rich corporations”- who have the ability to leave New York, let’s remember – will make New York City great.
Everybody will be blissfully happy in mamdani’s socialist paradise…just like they are in socialist paradises around the world (name one; I dare you).
So enjoy the next four years, New Yorkers. It’s going to be quite a ride.
