Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s newly announced inaugural committee is already raising eyebrows — giving controversial children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel a place on the team.
Mamdani on Wednesday named dozens of supporters to the committee — including actress and activist Cynthia Nixon of “Sex and the City” fame — who are advising his transition team on his Jan. 1 inauguration party.
“I’m honored to be joined by some of the most creative and experienced minds in the city as we build an inauguration that is truly by and for New Yorkers,” he said in a statement.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural committee is raising more eyebrows — giving controversial children’s podcaster Ms. Rachel a place on his team. YouTube/@msrachel
But the inclusion of the toddler whisperer, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, didn’t sit well with everyone.
“Ms. Rachel? She brings false charges against Jews. She smears Jews,” former CUNY trustee Jeffrey Wiesenfeld told The Post.
“What a disgrace.”
He also pointed out that the two Jewish groups represented on the inaugural committee — Jewish Voice for Peace and New York Jewish Agenda — are far-left and anti-Israel, like Mamdani.
Mamdani will officially take office as NYC’s next mayor on Jan. 1, 2026. Stephen Yang for the NY Post
“Jews and Christians are in for a rough ride,” Wiesenfeld said. “Mamdani is not representing the Jewish community in any way, shape or form. This is not David Dinkins’ ‘gorgeous mosaic.’”
Griffin Accurso was accused by a Jewish civil rights watchdog group in April of repeatedly posting pro-Hamas propaganda while ignoring the plight of Israeli children affected by the war in Gaza.
StopAntisemitism called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to launch an investigation into the comments, which the group maintained amounted to anti-Israeli rhetoric – and inappropriate for a podcaster who reaches millions of children.
“We urge you and your office to investigate whether or not Ms. Rachel is being remunerated to disseminate Hamas-aligned propaganda to her millions of followers,” the group’s director, Liora Rez, wrote in a letter to Bondi.
Rez claimed Griffin Accurso “consistently amplifies misinformation from Hamas.”
In a statement on Wednesday, StopAntisemitism questioned Mamdani’s inaugural committee choices.
“If Mamdani sought to reassure Jews that he would be a mayor for ‘All New Yorkers,’ naming this rogue’s gallery to be advisors was not a good way to go about it,” the group said.
“For those Jewish New Yorkers considering relocating, we’re happy to put them in touch with realtors eager to help in Florida, Texas and other locations where they will be welcome.”
Griffin Accurso has defended her comments in the past, saying she cares for the plight of “all children” including Palestinians, Israelis and Americans.
“I care deeply about families and young children,” she also said in a statement to The Post on Wednesday.
“Affordable, accessible, high-quality childcare deserves bipartisan support nationwide, and I’m so glad our city will be prioritizing it with Zohran as mayor,” she said.
Also on the committee are actors Luis Guzman, John Turturro and Kal Penn, along with Broadway star Cole Escola, novelist Min Jin Lee, and internet personality, The Kid Mero.
The posts on the inaugural panel are unpaid and largely symbolic, involving brainstorming ideas for Mamdani’s massive “Inauguration of a New Era” party near City Hall, which is expected to draw tens of thousands of New Yorkers.
Not all nearly 50 people on the committee will be in attendance for the bash — where socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders will swear-in Mamdani as New York City’s 112th mayor, the transition team said.
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Others serving on the volunteer inaugural panel are a slew of lefty Mamdani supporters, among them five campaign staffers and the NYC Democratic Socialists of America’s Electoral Coordinator Alvaro Lopez.
Reps from the left-wing Working Families Party and NY Communities for Change group also made the cut, as did Robert Wolf, a former advisor to Barack Obama, and Patrick Gaspard, the ex-president’s onetime political director.
The inaugural committee flap was just the latest development from Mamdani’s mayoral transition to rattle the Big Apple Jewish community.
Last week, high-profile Mamdani appointee Catherine Almonte Da Costa was forced to step down over newly disclosed antisemitic comments, including rants about “money-hungry Jews.”
The Mamdani camp has yet to name several top posts at City Hall — even while planning the well-funded inaugural bash that one veteran Democratic consultant called more “show” and more costly than productive.
“The reality is that having it in the street is a way of telling everybody, ‘He’s the people’s mayor and not a fancy guy,” consultant Hank Sheinkopf said.
“When in fact, it’s a very fancy event — taking over the streets, costing the city an awful lot of money to do it.”
— Additional reporting by Chris Nesi and Matthew Fischetti