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At the very least 20 p.c of New York Metropolis Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s administrative appointees are related to teams characterised as anti-Zionist, in keeping with a Monday report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
The report discovered that greater than 80 people amongst Mamdani’s 400-plus transition and administrative appointees both have ties to such teams or a “documented historical past of creating anti-Israel statements.”
The group mentioned Mamdani’s Transition Committee appointees have been linked to teams together with College students for Justice in Palestine, a pro-Palestinian faculty activism community; Jewish Voice for Peace, an American Jewish anti-Zionist group; and Inside Our Lifetime, a New York Metropolis-based anti-Zionist group “identified for main protests outdoors synagogues.”
For instance, the ADL mentioned no less than 4 appointees have ties to Louis Farrakhan, the antisemitic chief of the Nation of Islam. One appointee, Jacques Léandre, was cited for reportedly attending a convention at which Farrakhan denounced “the Jews and their energy.”
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks to members of the media at Flushing Meadows Corona Park within the Queens borough of New York on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (Adam Grey/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
A number of different appointees had been additionally cited for statements that seem to assist or justify violence towards Israel and the Oct. 7 assaults. In accordance with the ADL, Kazi Fouzia posted on Fb hours after the assaults that “Resistance are [sic] Justified when individuals are occupied” with video footage from an anti-Israel protest occurring that day in Manhattan.
The report continued to determine different appointees who publicly expressed hostility towards Zionism.
Examples included Fahd Ahmed, who allegedly acknowledged “Zionism is racism“; Ruha Benjamin, who reportedly signed an announcement saying Israel was “ideologically based on Jewish supremacy”; Lisa Ohta, who was accused of referring to “Zionism’s genocidal ideology”; and Mohammed Karim Chowdhury, who shared a put up allegedly claiming “Zionists are worse than … Nazis.”
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A protester waves a Palestinian flag throughout a protest on faculty campuses in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 2025. (ANDREW THOMAS/Center Eeast Photographs/AFP through Getty Photographs)
The group additionally recognized Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari, who was cited for allegedly posting a photograph of herself at an encampment in entrance of a banner displaying an inverted crimson triangle, a logo related to Hamas, alongside the textual content “LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE.”
The report additionally states that no less than 12 appointees publicly expressed assist for anti-Israel campus encampments through the spring of 2024, with no less than 5 attending the protests in individual. The ADL highlighted Gianpaolo Baiocchi, who was reportedly arrested on the NYU encampment and later asserted that no hate speech was current. The ADL disputes that declare, citing flyers distributed on the encampment that referred to as for “Loss of life to Israeli Actual Property” and “Loss of life to America.”
Demonstrators increase a “Free Palestine” flag on Oct. 4, 2025. (Dan Gainor)
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Mamdani, who takes workplace on Jan. 1, has beforehand and repeatedly emphasised that he stands towards antisemitism.
The ADL famous that many appointees didn’t increase issues and emphasised that no less than 25 people expressed assist for the Jewish neighborhood, together with Rabbi Joe Potasnik, Félix Matos Rodríguez, Wayne Ho, John King, and Jerry Goldfeder. Nevertheless, the group mentioned it stays involved about Mamdani’s group general.
“A lot of Mayor-elect Mamdani’s Transition Committee appointments are inconsistent along with his marketing campaign commitments to prioritize the protection of New York’s Jewish neighborhood,” the ADL wrote within the report.
Fox Information Digital reached out to Mamdani for extra remark.
