{"id":505855,"date":"2026-06-22T18:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505855\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:26:18","slug":"ohana-to-jns-nyc-mayor-mamdani-an-antisemitic-monster-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505855\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohana to JNS: NYC Mayor Mamdani an &#8216;antisemitic monster&#8217; &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (June 22, 2026 \/ JNS)\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana sharply criticized New York City leadership over antisemitism during a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/news\/israel-news\/knesset-speaker-to-jns-i-trust-trump-still-stands-by-his-words\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> at the second annual JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old Likud Party member noted he attended New York\u2019s Israel Day Parade (officially Israel Day on Fifth) on May 31 despite the absence of the city\u2019s mayor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis mayor of New York recently labeled Jewish and pro-Israel advocates as monsters. Now these are some of the most peaceful and courageous people he\u2019s talking about, many of whom are occupying the very seats in front of me,\u201d Ohana said. \u201cWell, the real monster in NYC is the antisemite currently occupying Gracie Mansion,\u201d he continued, in a pointed reference to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s official residence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani on June 18 described the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as \u201cmonsters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(June 22, 2026 \/ JNS) Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana sharply criticized New York City leadership over antisemitism during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-505855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}