{"id":281334,"date":"2026-06-29T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281334\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:42:09","slug":"nyc-ny-state-politics-live-updates-on-city-budget-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281334\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC, NY state politics: Live updates on city budget, more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phylisa Wisdom<\/a>, the head of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office to combat antisemitism, abruptly left an event to honor Holocaust survivors in Brooklyn Sunday after pro-Israel activists heckled her and refused to let her speak.<\/p>\n

She spoke briefly before departing when the heckling subsided in what had become\u00a0an ugly spectacle, video shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to leave to honor the survivors. I, too, have holocaust survivor family and I wish I could be here with you today to do this remembrance for all our families,” Wisdom said.<\/p>\n

“I hope survivors get more respect than this,” Wisdom said, before leaving Holocaust Memorial Park in Sheepshead Bay.<\/p>\n

There were about a dozen Holocaust survivors and one was crying amid the chaos, an eyewitness said.<\/p>\n

“Phylisa Wisdom, shame on you! These are holocaust survivors,” said Stephanie Neta Benshimal, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, who heckled Wisdom throughout.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This is sacred ground. You’re on Hitler’s side. Shame on you!”<\/p>\n

Organizers tried to stop the heckling of Wisdom–\u00a0to no avail.<\/p>\n

“She is an invited guest. How about showing some respect,” one organizer said, according to a four-minute video of the encounter.<\/p>\n

But an attendee shot back sarcastically, “Why don’t you invite Nazis?. Why don’t you invite Hamas?<\/p>\n

“She works for Mamdani!”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mamdani is a staunch critic of Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Democratic state Assembly candidate Joey Saban, who was at the Sunday event, said Wisdom should not have been invited.<\/p>\n

But he added, “It was wrong to take the focus off Holocaust survivors. This is sacred ground.\u00a0 Haven’t they been through enough? We have to do better.”<\/p>\n

Elected officials, including Councilwoman Inna Vernikov and Assemblyman Michael Novakhov, boycotted the event.<\/p>\n

“I boycotted the event,” said Novakhov, who Saban is challenging in the general election.<\/p>\n

“I don’t\u00a0think Wisdom is representative of the Jewish community. I think she is a self-hating Jew and Mamdani is an antisemite,” Novakhov claimed.<\/p>\n

Wisdom and the mayor’s office\u00a0offered\u00a0no immediate comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phylisa Wisdom, the head of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office to combat antisemitism, abruptly left an event to honor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4241,14927,1091,5309,57,9,24,56,63,65,64,58,82],"class_list":["post-281334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-albany","tag-city-budget","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-live-blogs","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281334","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=281334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}