{"id":253284,"date":"2026-06-03T05:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/253284\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:07:15","slug":"new-yorkers-press-hochul-to-oust-mamdani-from-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/253284\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers press Hochul to oust Mamdani from City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Yorkers pushing for Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s removal from office continued their mission outside Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s Midtown office on Monday, calling on the gov to begin removal proceedings against NYC\u2019s 112th mayor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Organized by the #EndJewHatred movement, a group of New Yorkers gathered outside Hochul\u2019s Third Avenue office on June 1, to hand-deliver a letter to the governor that explained why they want the mayor out of office \u2014 namely that Mamdani is, in their view, too soft on antisemitism and not doing enough to protect Jewish New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re here to hand-deliver this letter to Governor Hochul,\u201d said Michelle Ahdoot, director of programming strategy at EndJewHatredsaid. \u201cWe appreciate that she came out to the [Israel Day] parade yesterday, but words are words. Actions speak much louder than words.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

amNewYork contacted the governor\u2019s office to ask whether she received the letter and, if so, whether she has a response, as well as Mamdani\u2019s office to ask for his response to the letter. The newspaper is awaiting responses from both officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Addressing antisemitism<\/p>\n

The letter lists what organizers called charges against the mayor, which include his dismantling of the city\u2019s antisemitism protections put in place by former Mayor Eric Adams without replacing them.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn his first day in office, Mayor Mamdani revoked his predecessor\u2019s executive orders that had adopted the IHRA [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] working definition of antisemitism and related contracting guidance,\u201d the letter stated. \u201cThe charge is not that any mayor must adopt IHRA; the charge is that he tore down an existing, citywide framework in the middle of a documented crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

The crisis, organizers said, is the rise in antisemitism. On April 2, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch reported that hate crimes rose <\/a>nearly 12% citywide in the first quarter, with a majority of them being antisemitic<\/a>. Hate crimes against Jewish New Yorkers have increased since the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"peopleThe group made signs enlarging the letter they sent to Gov. Hochul.Courtesy #EndJewHatred<\/p>\n

Although Mamdani erased all of former Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 executive orders after Adams\u2019 federal indictment on Sept. 26, 2024, he has c<\/a>ontinued the previous administration\u2019s Office to Combat Antisemitism<\/a>, which is tasked with identifying and developing efforts to combat antisemitism and anti-Jewish hate crimes, supporting victims of antisemitism, and celebrating Jewish culture and traditions. However, the City Council, led by Speaker Julie Menin, has questioned the department\u2019s activities since Jan. 1, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The letter organizers sent to Hochul also alleged that Mamdani \u201cfailed to protect safe access\u201d to Jewish schools, synagogues, and neighborhoods.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite having notice of specific incidents targeting Jewish New Yorkers \u2013 and their houses of worship \u2013 Mayor Mamdani failed to enforce existing law against obstruction, assault, threats, targeted harassment, vandalism, and trespass even-handedly, resulting in Jewish New Yorkers being afforded lesser protection than anyone else when they attend school, worship, shop, or walk,\u201d the letters stated. \u201cA mayor may defend the right to protest, but he may not let that defense become a reason to underenforce the law for one community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several organizers of the rally delivered remarks, including Muslim women\u2019s rights activist and American Muslim & Multifaith Women\u2019s Empowerment Council founder Anila Ali; producer and content creator Zach Sage Fox; Michelle Ahdoot, Director of Programming and Strategy at #EndJewHatred; and Gerard Filitti, Senior Counsel at The Lawfare Project, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization.<\/p>\n

Ali said she was at the rally to empower moderate Muslim Americans.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are as Americans, to strengthen American communities, we can not have people in public office, like Mamdani, who divide us,\u201d she said. \u201cThat is not how America works. I\u2019m here as a proud Muslim American to say do not divide us. Do not use my religion to condone the people that are intimidating Jewish people going to synagogue, schools, walking the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Letter follows massive protest outside Gracie Mansion<\/p>\n

Ghazal Mizrahi, a singer and activist whose mother escaped the Iranian regime, leaving her whole life behind for freedom in the United States, spoke at the rally.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe left her whole life behind so me and my sister didn\u2019t have to grow up under the same terror,\u201d Mizrahi said. \u201cAfter everything my family sacrificed, to see that same terror brought to free and beautiful streets in America, we will not let that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"manPeople protest Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Gracie Maision.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

Organizers drafted the letter a day after nearly 1,000 New Yorkers, including those from EndJewHatred, protested near Gracie Mansion on May 26, expressing their opposition to Mamdani as mayor.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yorkers pushing for Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s removal from office continued their mission outside Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s Midtown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3862,95777,81,3932,22925,9,11,10,98791],"class_list":["post-253284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-antisemitism","tag-endjewhatred","tag-eric-adams","tag-gov-kathy-hochul","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-polittics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253284","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=253284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}