A Jewish civil rights group is demanding answers from freshly minted Mayor Zohran Mamdani after past posts about combating antisemitism were scrubbed from the Big Apple’s official mayoral X account — raising serious legal concerns.
The Democratic socialist — the first Muslim to lead City Hall — has been accused of deleting two Eric Adams-era posts highlighting the city’s fight against antisemitism that were shared hours before Mamdani was sworn in and took control of the account Thursday, according to the National Jewish Advocacy Center.
“It is difficult to overstate how disturbing it is that one of your very first acts as Mayor of New York City, on your very first day in office, was to delete official @NYCMayor tweets addressing the protection of Jewish New Yorkers,” the organization said in a letter addressed to Mamdani.
“At a moment of unprecedented antisemitic intimidation, violence, and exclusion in the City the decision to erase official statements affirming the safety and protection of Jews is not merely tone-deaf, it is shameful. It sends a message, whether intended or not, that Jewish New Yorkers are uniquely underserving of continuity, clarity, or reassurance from their own government.”
The fiery letter was also sent to the city’s Department of Investigation and the Conflicts of Interest Board, according to National Jewish Advocacy Center Director Mark Goldfeder.
Purging posts from the NYC Mayor X account without first archiving them may violate the city’s charter, as all social media posts are considered public record.
“Even if they were archived, the choice to delete statements specifically addressing Jewish safety on Day One invites scrutiny and erodes public trust,” the letter warned.
“New York City’s mayoralty is an institution, not a social-media account to be curated for convenience or optics. The record matters, the law matters, and the safety and dignity of Jewish New Yorker’s most certainly matter.”
Mamdani spokesperson Dora Pekec insisted the deleted posts are in fact being archived and weren’t targeted over their content.
“The Mayor’s team has begun archiving posts from the @NYCMAYOR account that were published by the previous administration, in chronological order,” Pekec said in a statement.
“This ongoing process is administrative in nature and is not based on the content of the posts.
“The Mayor remains steadfast in his commitment to root out the scourge of antisemitism in our City and will deliver on his commitment to renewing the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism and increasing funding for the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes by 800%,” the statement said.
In his final act as mayor, Adams shared three consecutive posts Wednesday morning touting the city’s “first-ever municipal report” on fighting antisemitism, calling it a “blueprint for 2026.”
But the next day, when Mamdani assumed office, two posts within the thread were gone, leaving just the final one, with notices above reading, “This Post was deleted by the Post author.”
The far-left pol has faced ongoing criticism for his Israel bashing and support of Palestine.
Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has repeatedly refused to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and vowed to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a war criminal if he ever sets foot in the Big Apple.
While a portion of his transition team have ties to radical anti-Zionist groups, Mamdani has worked to earn support from more of New York’s Jewish community since getting elected, including appearing in a recent Hanukkah video with actor Mandy Patinkin.
Hours after taking office, Mamdani also signed an executive order that wiped out most of the orders issued by Adams following his historic September 2024 federal indictment, that was later dismissed.
While the 34-year-old vowed to reissue certain Adams-era orders from that period of time, including one that would maintain the Office to Combat Antisemitism, the advocacy group slammed him for scrapping a decree that adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism.
“Your first days in office will define your administration,” the National Jewish Advocacy Center concluded their scathing letter.
“This is not how that definition should begin.”
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