New York City (QNN)- Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order in his first day as mayor on Thursday revoking all orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams, including two that support Israel.
One of the revoked orders, signed last month by Adams, barred city agencies from boycotting or divesting from Israel. Another that the former mayor signed last June implementing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, that equates Israel’s criticism with antisemitism.
Mamdani did not revoke the creation of the city’s office to combat antisemitism, which Adams created in May.
Still, the former mayor and others who had opposed Mamdani’s candidacy criticized the new mayor’s actions.
In a post on X, Adams said Mamdani “promised a New Era and unity today. This isn’t new. And it isn’t unity.”
Inna Vernikov, a Republican councilwoman from Brooklyn, attacked the mayor on Thursday night, saying on social media that one of the revoked orders “protects from discrimination Jews who believe in self determination.” A little more than an hour later, she added that “the pro-Hamas antisemites emboldened by” the mayor “are coming!”
Mamdani promised on Thursday to be a mayor for all New Yorkers, and has made it clear that antisemitism will not be tolerated, while also saying he will advocate for Palestinians.
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Mamdani was sworn in as the first Muslim mayor of New York City on Thursday during a private ceremony where he took his oath using his grandfather's Quran and a 200-year-old copy of the Quran on loan from the New York Public Library.
Mamdani drew global attention to his campaign because of his strong stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Recently, he stated that the United States is funding the genocide during a meeting with President Donald Trump.
Standing alongside Trump, Mamdani was asked by a reporter about previous comments he had made about the US government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide, including the current administration. Mamdani replied that he had shared with the president “the concern that many New Yorkers have of wanting their tax dollars to go towards the benefit of New Yorkers”, noting the city is “in the ninth consecutive year of more than 100,000 schoolchildren being homeless”.
“I’ve spoken about the Israeli government committing genocide and I’ve spoken about our government funding it,” Mamdani said, adding that the Trump voters he met “were tired of seeing our tax dollars fund endless wars”. It was the first known occasion that Israel’s genocide in Gaza was mentioned within the walls of the White House.
At one point he said that he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - per the International Criminal Court arrest warrant - if he visited New York.
He has decried Israel as an apartheid state, said it should ensure equal rights for followers of all religions instead of favoring Jews in its political and legal system, and has supported the BDS movement.
