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Mondani has faced previous criticism from prominent Jewish organizations over his rhetoric concerning Israel.

In fact, last week, UJA Federation of New York, JCRC New York, and AJC New York, and the New York Board of Rabbis praised portions of Mondani's new strategy against anti-Semitism, but warned that it failed to confront rhetoric They say it demonizes and delegitimizes Israel and can contribute to Jewish New Yorkers being targeted, which they have been.

But this is, well, New Yorkers, the majority of New Yorkers voted for this guy.

Maybe next time you won't.

Media reports revealed she is Jewish.

Concerns were previously raised by Jewish groups like the JCRC regarding her anti-Israel activism and alleged classroom import of inflammatory content.

and antisemitic tropes, including remarks made at a rally and materials that appeared to erase Israel from maps.

For continuing coverage of antisemitism around the world, listen to Antisemitism Watch from Clockwork Media.

The plan doubles funding for a group called Partners Against the Hate to $6.4 million.

The program supports six core organizations, including the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Arab American Association of New York.

New York Post is reporting the Arab American Association, formerly led by Mamdani ally Linda Sarsour, supported anti-Israel campus encampments after October 7th.

The group received $3.3 million in city funding between 2017 and 2024, according to The Post.

And, and so much of these, like, uh, moments in the spotlight where Zohran fails to hold his own standard, that we are going to obviously, uh, defend.

The other side of the story that I found to be, uh, not great, okay? The other, the other side of the story is one that also Mehdi Hasan, uh, referenced as well, where Zohran Mamdani-- Zohran Mamdani also fun- is, you know, offering funds to certain institutions like the JCRC that are under the banner of the UJA, uh, uh, Federation of New York, right? That are outright criticizing Zohran for offering them funds.

This is the joint statement from the JCRC New York and AJC Global and New York Board of Rabbis in response to Mayor Mamdani's strategy to combat antisemitism.

"Any effort to confront antisemitism in New York City must fully address the reality Jewish New Yorkers face today.

While the mayor's plan has a number of positive elements, including some increased security funding for Jewish institutions and expanding proven programs, it fails to address a central issue that the mayor himself has perpetuated.

Rhetoric that demonizes and delegitimizes Israel inevitably leads to the targeting of Jewish New Yorkers." So JCRC is not only receiving millions of dollars in funding that they asked for to protect synagogues and other, you know, Jewish cultural centers and the like, which is fine, right? I don't have an issue with that.

It's understandable.

You know, one could, one could turn around and argue, well, you know, are we, are we receiving the same funding for mosques, for example, who are also under attack? But regardless, the very same institutions are now getting state funds and simultaneously turning around and still saying, "It's not enough.

[gentle music] Welcome to Boston Jewish Now, a podcast from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston.

I'm Jeremy Burton, CEO of the JCRC.

Our aim is to help Greater Boston's Jewish community make sense of the world around us, what's happening locally, nationally, and globally, and why it matters to us here in Massachusetts, and also to help our civic partners understand how our Jewish community is thinking about these issues.

As we sit down to record this podcast, we're a few days away from October 7th, the third anniversary of that horrific day.

We're thinking about the ways in which October 7th is very much still a part of lived memory for essentially anybody who has been going into this coming week's commemorations.

And we often talk about the fact that we have other experiences, both in living memory and in history, that inform our understanding of memory, history, and education.

And education, of course, being a large part of the work we focus on here at JCRC.

In particular for us at JCRC, in terms of how we teach about the Holocaust and how we acknowledge that the Holocaust is now over eighty years in our past, and there aren't as many people left who have a living memory of that.