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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced Wednesday an unprecedented initiative to monitor incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, citing deep concern over his record of anti-Israel statements and associations with figures accused of antisemitism.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said the “Mamdani Monitor” and a new antisemitism tipline were necessary to “protect Jewish New Yorkers during a period of unprecedented antisemitism” in the city, which has the world’s largest Jewish population outside Israel.
“Mayor-elect Mamdani has promoted antisemitic narratives, associated with individuals who have a history of antisemitism, and demonstrated intense animosity toward the Jewish state,” Greenblatt said in a statement…