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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reportedly appointed a Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) rabbi to a taxpayer-funded role as the official liaison between city hall and New York’s Jewish community.
JVP opposes Israel’s existence as a Jewish and democratic state, has compared Zionism to Nazism, leads boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaigns from college campuses to Congress, calls for an end to all American economic and military support for Israel, and has collaborated with groups tied to designated terrorist organizations.
The appointee, Rabbi Miriam Grossman, was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. A current JVP member, she previously served on its Rabbinical Council and holds a leadership role in Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ).
Mamdani placed the role inside his newly-created Office of Mass Engagement, headed by Tascha Van Auken, a veteran Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) organizer.
In a past speech captured on video, Grossman condemned Israel for operating “a system of Jewish supremacy that places Palestinians at the bottom.”
“We will not let the rhetoric of so-called two sides distract or detract from the reality that one side has enacted a brutal military occupation, ongoing colonization, and decades of apartheid and disregard for Palestinian life, all of that with the backing of global superpowers and American tax dollars,” she said.
“Peace does not mean a return to the situation as it has been at any point in the last 75 years, which is one of ethnic cleansing, Palestinian dispossession, and apartheid,” Grossman added.
New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed antizionist Rabbi Miriam Grossman as the taxpayer-funded faith liaison between City Hall and the city’s Jewish community. 🤦♀️ She and Mamdani both want to defund Israel. pic.twitter.com/pEqM5EIsWA
— Joni Job (@jj_talking) May 18, 2026
At a JVP event in New York in 2021, Grossman declared, “As long as Palestinian families in east Jerusalem face ongoing ethnic cleansing, as long as Gaza remains an open-air prison, our house as a people is not in order.” Less than two weeks after the Hamas massacre, Grossman published an op-ed in Lilith magazine stating that “war crimes do not justify war crimes. She also participated in demonstrations against aid to Israel both before and after October 7.
Grossman’s rhetoric directly contradicts the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism, which identifies as antisemitic both the denial of Jewish self-determination and the inversion of the Holocaust against the Jewish people.
JVP’s Rabbinical Council has done precisely that by comparing the situation in Gaza to the Holocaust. On his first day in office this past January, Mayor Mamdani revoked the city’s adoption of that definition and rescinded the order barring city agencies from boycotting Israel. In doing so, he removed the only guardrail standing between New York’s Jewish community and the ideology he champions, now sitting in City Hall.
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