The pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League (ADL) plans to track and monitor the policies and personnel appointments of New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, according to a press statement released on Wednesday.
“Mayor-Elect Mamdani has promoted antisemitic narratives, associated with individuals who have a history of antisemitism, and demonstrated intense animosity toward the Jewish state that is counter to the views of the overwhelming majority of Jewish New Yorkers,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL's CEO and national director, said in a statement.
“We are deeply concerned that those individuals and principles will influence his administration at a time when we are tracking a brazen surge of harassment, vandalism and violence targeting Jewish residents and institutions in recent years,” he added.
The ADL has long been denounced by pro-Palestinian groups for describing Palestinian rights movements as antisemitic. The organisation has also, in the past, worked with US law enforcement to spy on and target Arab-American groups and has facilitated and funded US police training trips to Israel.
The ADL said it would establish a tipline that will serve as a “hyper-focused resource for New Yorkers to report antisemitic incidents in the city, including on the streets, in schools, in their workplace”.
