At least 20% of the 400 people appointed to New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team have a history of “making or sharing anti-Zionist or anti-Israel statements,” according to a Monday report by the Anti-Defamation League.
The report by the ADL, which has been screening Mamdani’s transition advisers for comments seen as hateful toward Jewish people, came after the organization discovered last week that Mamdani’s incoming City Hall appointments director, Cat Almonte Da Costa, made offensive social media posts about Jews when she was a teenager.
The disclosure prompted Da Costa to apologize and announce she would not join his administration.
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