{"id":636459,"date":"2026-10-04T21:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/636459\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:50:21","slug":"over-25-nyc-jewish-groups-oppose-zohran-mamdani-antisemitism-plan-demand-new-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/636459\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 25 NYC Jewish groups oppose Zohran Mamdani antisemitism plan, demand new one"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 25 grassroots organizations, local school groups, and neighborhood nonprofits signed an open letter criticizing Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s<\/a> newly released municipal strategy to combat antisemitism, arguing that it \u201cfalls dangerously short\u201d and ignores the primary threats facing Jewish residents on the ground.<\/p>\n

The coalition, consisting of over 25 New York City-based entities including the BridgeBuilders Grassroots Coalition, the New York Jewish Alliance, JewBelong, and End Jewish Hatred, stated that they represent \u201ceveryday New Yorkers across the city\u201d who deal with antisemitism daily in schools, workplaces, cultural institutions, and neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

The signatories said that the administration\u2019s plan<\/a> largely overlooks contemporary anti-Jewish hostility tied to Middle East politics, noting that the document \u201creaches back eight years to highlight right-wing terrorist attacks in other cities, while failing to discuss, or even mention, a single anti-Jewish incident that occurred in New York in the past three years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter, signed on Friday, said that \u201cour community generally isn\u2019t encountering Charlottesville-style white supremacists in our neighborhoods\u201d but is instead facing \u201canti-Zionist animus that too often veers into anti-Jewish harassment, exclusion, and even violence\u201d.<\/p>\n

Groups state Mamdani’s plan ignores biggest threat to NY Jews<\/p>\n

While noting that some of the proposed measures may have value, the groups said that \u201cthey largely sidestep the biggest threat Jewish New Yorkers<\/a> are dealing with today: anti-Jewish exclusion and violence cloaked as anti-Israel activism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the ‘This Past Weekend’ podcast with comedian Theo Von, October 1, 2026. (credit: Screenshot\/YouTube\/Theo Von)<\/p>\n

The group also said that the \u201comission isn\u2019t incidental. It\u2019s the central failure of the report.\u201d<\/p>\n

Detailing the daily reality on city streets, the coalition said that \u201canti-Zionist harassment has become normalized in our city and the violence it inspires is completely unsurprising,\u201d pointing out that Jewish New Yorkers<\/a> are targeted due to events in the Middle East and Israel.<\/p>\n

The letter noted that \u201c\u2018Free Palestine\u2019 is yelled at Jewish performers in derisive tones\u201d and residents \u201care called \u2018babykillers\u2019, \u2018rapists\u2019, and \u2018genocidaires\u2019 as we walk the street or shop for groceries,\u201d alongside acts of physical violence such as \u201cstabbings, car rammings, bomb threats and assaults.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter criticized the administration\u2019s framework for omitting a definitive stance, stating that the report \u201cexplicitly declines to adopt a definition of antisemitism and provides little concrete guidance for perhaps the hardest and most pertinent questions institutions are confronting: When is conduct framed as anti-Zionist political expression simply anti-Jewish targeting or discrimination?\u201d<\/p>\n

Groups demand new plan<\/p>\n

Concluding that \u201chow can we solve a problem if we refuse to even acknowledge the cause?\u201d The groups demanded a new plan, stating that \u201ca strategy to combat antisemitism in New York City must address antisemitism as Jewish New Yorkers are experiencing it today, and must not deny their agency to identify and define the hate they encounter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter\u2019s release comes in direct response to the municipal strategy report titled \u201cTackling Hate: The Mamdani Administration\u2019s Strategy to Combat Antisemitism,\u201d published by the Office of the Mayor and led by the newly reestablished Mayor\u2019s Office to Combat Antisemitism under Executive Director Phylisa Wisdom.<\/p>\n

The administration\u2019s report outlines a whole-of-government approach across seven strategic objectives, including a nearly ninefold budget increase for the Office for Prevention of Hate Crimes to $26 million.<\/p>\n

This features $7.4 million designated for nonprofit physical security and doubled funding for Partners Against the Hate grants, alongside enhanced educational curricula through New York City Public Schools, expanded cultural competency training via the NYC Commission on Human Rights, and increased support from the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 25 grassroots organizations, local school groups, and neighborhood nonprofits signed an open letter criticizing Mayor Zohran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,16607,85,46,1886,5708,43,14325],"class_list":["post-636459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-antisemitism","tag-antizionism","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636459","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=636459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}