Overview
- Zohran Mamdani nullified nine Eric Adams executive orders issued after Sept. 26, 2024, including New York City’s formal use of the IHRA antisemitism definition and a ban on municipal boycotts or divestment related to Israel.
- Israel’s Foreign Ministry denounced the move as antisemitic, and major Jewish organizations along with local Republicans and Eric Adams criticized the reversals as weakening protections for Jewish New Yorkers.
- Mamdani kept the city’s Office to Combat Antisemitism in place, while the New York Civil Liberties Union welcomed the revocations as safeguarding protected speech on Israel and Gaza.
- He announced new tenant-protection measures and created two housing teams—Lift to identify buildable public land and Speed to streamline approvals—to accelerate affordable development.
- Other changes included rescinding permission for ICE to operate at Rikers Island as he began his term as New York’s first Muslim mayor and the city’s youngest leader in more than a century.