On his first day in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani made three moves that should alarm anyone tracking the rebranding of Antisemitism in American progressive politics. I say this as a mainstream liberal who left the Democratic Party last year to become an Independent. I had seen enough of how Mamdani and his anti-Zionist allies were reshaping the party by trying to redefine Antisemitism for the rest of us.

Within hours, Mamdani re-legalized the possibility of BDS in New York City. He overturned the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of Antisemitism, rejecting IHRA’s recognition that anti-Zionism is a common form of Jew-hatred. But he also announced he would keep the city’s Office to Combat Antisemitism, created by his predecessor, Mayor Eric Adams.

What do these actions mean together?

They are a coordinated demonstration, advanced for years by anti-Zionist groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, designed to prove a fraud: that one can be anti-Zionist without being Antisemitic.

Had Mamdani eliminated the Office to Combat Antisemitism, his agenda would have been too obvious. The........

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