At least 20% of Mamdani appointees have ties to anti-Zionist groups, ADL says |
NEW YORK — At least 20 percent of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s administrative appointees are connected to anti-Zionist US activist groups, such as Students for Justice in Palestine, the Anti-Defamation League said in a Monday report.
The ADL released the report after surveying Mamdani’s more than 400 Transition Committee appointees.
Some of the appointees are connected to other anti-Zionist groups, such as Jewish Voice for Peace and Within Our Lifetime, a leading hardline activist group in New York City, the report said.
Two of the appointees posted support for Palestinian “resistance” against Israel, including one who wrote that resistance was “justified” a day after the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion and onslaught, the report said.
At least four of the appointees have ties to Louis Farrakhan, the antisemitic head of the Nation of Islam, including by posting support for Farrakhan online.
The report said at least a dozen........