New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday defended his revocation of \u200bexecutive orders that his predecessor Eric Adams issued after being indicted in 2024 on federal charges of accepting illegal campaign contributions. The dozen orders Adams issued since his indictment included a directive to allow federal agents, including \u2060immigration officers, to use an office on Rikers Island, the city’s main jail. That order was \u200clater struck down \u2060by a court. The new mayor also struck down executive orders that Adams had portrayed as addressing antisemitism. Mamdani, a Muslim who some \u200dhave accused of antisemitism over his support of Palestinians in Gaza, told reporters on Friday that he would fund measures to prevent hate crimes, and would make protection of Jewish \u2060New Yorkers a focus of his administration. Mamdani recalled September 26, 2024, the day when Adams was charged with accepting illegal campaign contributions and luxury travel from Turkish nationals seeking to influence him, as “a moment when
many New \u200cYorkers lost even more faith in New York City politics and the ability of city government to actually prioritize the needs of the public, as opposed to the \u2060needs of the person.” In April, a U.S. judge dismissed the charges against Adams, a Democrat, at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, which had argued that the case was distracting the mayor from helping Republican President Donald Trump step up deportations. Mamdani, from \u2060the left wing of the Democratic Party, has clashed with Trump over the immigration crackdown. On Thursday, Mamdani revoked orders by Adams that had prevented city institutions from divesting from Israel \u200dand that defined antisemitism in a way recognized by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, an intergovernmental organization of 35 countries that promotes Holocaust education. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is among \u200cgroups that argue the IHRA \u200bdefinition has been used to \u200ctry to silence advocates for Palestinian rights. Wh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday defended his revocation of \u200bexecutive orders that his predecessor Eric Adams issued after being indicted in 2024 on federal charges of accepting illegal campaign contributions. The dozen orders Adams issued since his indictment included a directive to allow federal agents, including \u2060immigration officers, to use an office on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n