Mamdani’s anti-Zionist policies are targeting New York’s Jewish businesses
On his first day in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani revoked executive orders designed to assist city agencies in identifying and preventing antisemitic discrimination based on a perceived association with Israel.
The following morning, prominent Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee, issued a joint statement denouncing the move.
Mamdani’s administration has remained defiant about reinstituting any sort of definition of antisemitism, let alone one that recognizes the all-too-common points of intersection between anti-Zionism and anti-Jewish bigotry.
Meanwhile, it has gone out of its way to target businesses with an apparent connection to Israelis or the State of Israel.
In early January, Mamdani attempted to prevent the sale of a large, rent-controlled housing portfolio to the Israeli-owned real estate company Summit Properties USA.
