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New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued a pair of executive orders aimed at addressing anti-Semitism, his office said, just weeks before Zoharan Mamdani was to replace him.
Adams, who recently returned from a trip to Israel, has issued an executive order barring city agency heads and mayoral appointees from “engaging in procurement practices that discriminate against the State of Israel, Israeli citizens or people associated with Israel.” The order states that it prohibits the city’s pension administrators and trustees from “opposing divestitures from bonds and other assets that would discriminate against the State of Israel, Israeli citizens, or people associated with Israel”.
The second order directs New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to consider ways to control protests near houses of worship. The order comes after a recent protest outside a synagogue on the Upper East Side that was criticized by some Jewish leaders, prompting Tisch to apologize for the way the NYPD handled the incident.
The orders come as Mamdani, a democratic socialist and vocal critic of Israel, is set to be inaugurated on January 1. The Queens Assembly member has long supported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
He no longer holds any Israeli bonds after outgoing Comptroller Brad Lander divested the city’s pension fund. But the fund still has $291 million invested in Israeli companies. Lander, who supports Mamdani, has said that the decision to divest from Israel bonds was based on risk and not motivated by political concerns.
Adams’ executive order comes days after Apollo Global Management Inc.’s Mark Rowan called Mamdani an “enemy” of the Jewish people at a fundraiser.
Mamdani has said that he intends to keep Tish as the city’s police commissioner after taking office.
A spokesman for Mamdani’s transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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