NYC Health Department’s anti-Israel working group: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 10, 2026
I thought the Department of Health’s mission was the health and safety of New Yorkers (“Healthy dose of hate,” Feb. 5).
Since when did foreign policy issues, such as the war in Gaza, become a concern?
Would it be proper for the department to have a study group showing how MAGA has increased the health outcomes of New Yorkers? Of course not.
This is a prime example of how woke politics have taken hold of our bloated government.
Mark Seitelman
Manhattan
The DOH’s “Global Oppression and Public Health Working Group” ought to relearn medicine’s prime maxim: “Do no harm,” because doing harm seems to be the group’s entire purpose.
This working group takes involved employees away from their jobs, wastes taxes and diminishes public trust in a critically important municipal function.
This is just one more example of the antisemitism increasingly infecting the........
