The Anti-Defamation League has launched an initiative to track and monitor policies and personnel appointments overseen by the incoming Mamdani administration to protect Jewish residents in New York City, it said on Wednesday.
The Mamdani monitor initiative was announced following the election of Zohran Mamdani as city mayor on Tuesday. It will focus on providing transparency around City Hall decisions that affect Jewish New Yorkers, such as education and budget priorities.
Alongside this, the ADL is launching a “tipline initiative,” which will serve as a hyper-focused resource for New Yorkers to report antisemitic incidents in the city, including on the streets, in schools, and in the workplace. ADL experts will use data gained from incidents to track and monitor the impact that the new administration could have on the safety of Jewish residents.
Initiative comes amid rising antisemitism in New York
The ADL said the initiative comes amid surging antisemitism, as well as Mamdani’s history of promoting antisemitic narratives and association with individuals who have a history of antisemitism.
“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,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s CEO and national director.
“We expect the mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in the world to stand unequivocally against antisemitism in all its varied forms and support all of its Jewish residents just as he would all other constituents,” he said.
“This is just a start. But make no mistake: ADL’s core purpose is to protect the Jewish people, and we will be relentless and unyielding in our work to ensure the safety and security of all Jewish New Yorkers,” Greenblatt continued.