{"id":487843,"date":"2026-01-02T20:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/487843\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:19:15","slug":"nyc-mayor-mamdani-faces-backlash-for-revoking-antisemitism-orders-by-predecessor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/487843\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Mamdani faces backlash for revoking antisemitism orders by predecessor"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani <\/a>is facing flak for revoking three executive orders signed by former Mayor Eric Adams that codified protections for Jewish New Yorkers against antisemitism and curtailed anti-Israel sentiment in city leadership.<\/p>\n

Mamdani<\/a> signed an order revoking these three executive orders among many others signed by Adams after September 26, 2024 \u2014 the day Adams was indicted on federal charges which were later dropped \u2014 because he wanted to operate the city on a clean slate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a date that marked a moment when many New Yorkers decided politics held nothing for them,\u201d Adams said on Thursday to reporters.<\/p>\n

Mamdani <\/a>revoked an executive order signed by Adams last month which prevented city officials from boycotting or divesting from Israel. Mamdani also nullified an executive order which adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance\u2019s definition of antisemitism, which consists of 11 examples of antisemitism in action, seven of which include criticisms of Israel.<\/p>\n

The Israel Foreign Ministry took to social media to express its disdain with Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn his very first day as New York City Mayor Mamdani shows his true face: He scraps the IHRA definition of antisemitism and lifts restrictions on boycotting Israel,\u201d Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry wrote in a post. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t leadership. It\u2019s antisemitic gasoline on an open fire.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, not all Jewish organizations share the Israeli\u2019s disdain for Mamdani\u2019s decision to roll back Adams\u2019 executive orders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is not consensus necessarily around whether the I.H.R.A. definition of antisemitism should be codified in this way,\u201d Phylisa Wisdom, the executive director of the New York Jewish Agenda, a progressive group, told the New York Times. <\/a>\u201cNot everyone thinks you need to codify I.H.R.A to keep the Jewish people safe, in the same way we don\u2019t necessarily have codified definitions of other forms of hate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani also revoked Executive Order 61, which mandated that the New York Police Department strengthen its protection around synagogues in the wake of growing harassment and threats from protesters. The order included a directive ensuring the establishment of safe zones which prohibits protests from occurring within a certain distance of sites of religious worship.<\/p>\n

However, Mamdani ensured that his administration remained focused on protecting Jewish New Yorkers by pointing to \u201cthe continued incorporation of the Office to Combat Antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is an issue that we take very seriously and as part of the commitment that we\u2019ve made to Jewish New Yorkers: to not only protect them, but to celebrate and cherish them,\u201d Mamdani told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing flak for revoking three executive orders signed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":487844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12648,19887,220188,99,220187,5708,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-487843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-antisemitism","10":"tag-executive-orders","11":"tag-ihra-definition","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-jewish-protections","14":"tag-mamdani","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nypd","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115827360737721701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}