cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43076490
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”.
Love2triangulate. Why does this office even exist?
So its a bullshit scam office but he’s too chicken to just delete it. Did no one from JVP want the bullshit job or did Phylisa actually deliver him some voting bloc?
lol I didn’t even know this office was created a year ago. Then there is literally no excuse not to abolish it
There’s the simple reason of avoiding the headlines and the media attack cycle.
Success!
As we know, playing nice with Nazis always works out
That’s honestly is good press for Mamdani. Makes Phylisa look better than she is.
Why not just have someone good or abolish the position entirely. I thought we were playing nice with zionists to avoid “the headlines and the media attack cycle.”
Because the headline you posted makes Mamdani look like a moderate.
He’s not too chicken, he sincerely wants to hire Zionists
As in Phylisa probably delivered some liberal-zionist votes and is being rewarded. If you remember Brad Lander, he deliberately formed a liberal-zionist + anti-zionist coalition for Mamdani.
“Liberal Nazis for Mamdani”