NEW YORK — An appointee to New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s incoming administration resigned on Thursday after old antisemitic social media posts surfaced earlier in the day.

Mamdani named Catherine Almonte Da Costa as his administration’s director of appointments on Wednesday. The director of appointments is a high-ranking role in the mayor’s office that oversees the recruitment and placement of key staff.

On Thursday, a day after Mamdani tapped her for the role, the Anti-Defamation League exposed antisemitic comments Da Costa posted on X in 2011 and 2012.

Da Costa wrote, “Money hungry Jews smh,” using an acronym that stands for “shaking my head.”

She also wrote, “Promoted to upstairs office today! Working alongside these rich Jewish peeps,” and, “Far Rockaway train is the Jew train.”

Jewish greed and wealth are centuries-old antisemitic tropes.

Immediately after the ADL publicized the posts, Da........

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