New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed the Zionist leader of a liberal Jewish community group to lead his Office to Combat Antisemitism.
Phylisa Wisdom, who will be leading City Hall’s fight against Jew-hatred, has led the New York Jewish Agenda since 2023.
The group opposed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, an anti-Israel initiative Mamdani has previously expressed his support for.
The group been instrumental in calling out antisemitism over the years. Last month, after a protest outside a synagogue saw activists chant “we support Hamas”, NYJA condemned it as “unambiguous and unacceptable antisemitism”.
Something like this happened in Australia, with the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism being Jillian Segal, whose husband is a major donor to a right-wing think tank.
Gillian called out every little thing anti-Zionist thing they could imagine about pro-Palestine protests, while consistently ignoring white supremacists and even self-declared neo-Nazis, including the time they gave explicitly anti-Jewish speeches in public in front of NSW Parliament, holding up a banner saying “Abolish the Jewish Lobby”.
https://theklaxon.com.au/jillian-segal-misleads-senate-over-neo-nazis/