This is Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene workers are assembling on the taxpayer’s dime to attack the nation of Israel.
The grossly antisemitic “Global Oppression and Public Health Working Group,” which held its first meeting Tuesday, is an outrage that demands swift action from Mamdani — but will he?
Held in the middle of the workday at department headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, as well as remotely, the government-sponsored hate fest featured speakers who accused Israeli forces of committing “genocide’’ against Palestinians.
One presenter, Hunter College professor Weeam Hammoudeh, a committee member for the Palestine Global Mental Health Network, displayed not only vicious bias but willful ignorance of the Jewish state.
In this word salad captured on video, she proclaimed, “So Palestinian citizens of Israel are citizens but they’re not considered nationals of the state so they’re more restricted in terms of the areas that they can live in and then some jobs and other opportunities also require military service, and that creates another set of sort of disparities in outcomes.”
It’s a bald-faced lie.
Israel’s Muslim citizens not only enjoy the same civil rights, employment and wages as Jewish Israelis, they can vote and hold public office.
But speakers at this disgraceful conference neglected to mention not only these facts, they ignored the massacre of more than 1,200 Jews on Oct. 7, 2023. Not one mention was made during the more than hour-long conference of terrorists who murdered, raped, tortured and kidnapped Jews, sparking Israel’s self-defensive war in Gaza.
The name Hamas was not uttered at all.
And what does libeling another country have to do with the Health Department’s mandate to protect the health of New Yorkers from illness, from the flu to HIV?
Absolutely nothing.
Speakers, who seemed hand-picked for their hatred of Israel and contempt for the Jewish people were introduced by Sarah McKenney, a director of operations for the rapid response team at the DOHMH, and one of the organizers of the disgraceful event.
Mayor Mamdani is a longtime basher of Israel who’s surrounded himself with Jew haters and bandies about the term “genocide.’’ Lately, however, he’s vowed to protect Jewish New Yorkers from the often violent acts of antisemitism unleashed on streets, Jewish-owned businesses and synagogues throughout Gotham.
It’s time he put his money where his mouth is.
If Hizzoner wants to prove he represents all people of this city and cares if residents live or die, he’ll immediately disband this disgraceful working group and put its ringleaders on notice that their jobs are at risk if they refuse.
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