{"id":123265,"date":"2026-02-04T23:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123265\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:31:10","slug":"mayor-mamdani-is-colonizing-new-york-city-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123265\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani is colonizing New York City government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your tax dollars at work: The city Health Department\u2019s new Global Oppression and Public Health Working Group is, no surprise, another Israel-bashing outfit \u2014 and likely a sign of many more to come under Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>It transparently has <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/04\/us-news\/mamdani-nyc-health-dept-staffers-launch-working-group-accusing-israel-of-genocide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nothing to do with health<\/a> in New York City (or anywhere), really: It\u2019s all about the usual \u201cpro-Palestinian\u201d noise about \u201cgenocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet at least some public resources are supporting it: The \u201cworking group\u201d met in the middle of the workday Tuesday at DOH headquarters in Long Island City (with some staff zooming in); how many were on the clock?<\/p>\n<p>This is simply rank politicization, washed through the lefty-groupthink insistence that everything bad is related and driven by some combination of capitalism, white supremacy, \u201csettler colonialism\u201d and so on: The uni-cause is all.<\/p>\n<p>If he had any interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/02\/opinion\/mamdanis-failing-at-his-core-job-keeping-nyc-functioning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doing his job<\/a>, the mayor would stand up for professionalism in the city workforce by ordering the \u201cworking group\u201d shut down, or at least forced off city property and out of working hours.<\/p>\n<p>But our mayor is a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/02\/opinion\/on-his-first-day-mamdani-chose-to-attack-israel-and-make-jews-less-safe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">committed, lifelong Israel-hater<\/a> himself, and his Democratic Socialist movement is all about using public resources to fuel its \u201ctransformative\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n<p>So he\u2019s more far likely to defend this <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/25\/opinion\/mamdani-keeps-playing-dumb-on-israel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by dishonestly pretending<\/a> the issue is city employees\u2019 right to have and express their own views etc. etc. \u2014 all the things he\u2019d never say if the outfit were pro-Israel or even anti-Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Fact is, the true chief purpose of organizations like the \u201cworking group\u201d is to claim turf \u2014 to warn pro-Israel DOH staff to keep their heads down or better yet find jobs somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>This is ideological Jew-hate colonizing city government, pure and simple \u2014 a complete disgrace of a kind you can expect to see prosper for the next four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your tax dollars at work: The city Health Department\u2019s new Global Oppression and Public Health Working Group is,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,304,5237,9,24,55,54,56,299,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-123265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-editorial","10":"tag-health-department","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-opinion","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}