Mayor Adams takes page out of Trumps playbook, launches NYC task force to fight antisemitism

Mayor Adams took a page from President Trump’s playbook and announced the city’s own antisemitism task force – after years of local Jewish groups pushing for action.Hizzoner rolled out a new Office to Combat Antisemitism in City Hall on Tuesday ahead of his weekly off-topic presser with the aim of making sure no city funds flow to any group or organization that promotes hate against Jewish people.The agency will be tasked with monitoring court cases and working with the Law Department on which cases the city should join or bring, as well as advising the administration on potential executive orders.“The Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism will be the first of its kind in a major city across the nation, and will tackle antisemitism in all of its forms,” Adams said.“The office will work to ensure city-funded entities and city agencies do not permit different forms of antisemitism,” he added.The new office — which, as of Tuesday had executive director Moshe Davis as its sole employee — seemingly mimicked Trump’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism that has gone to war with universities over alleged antisemitism on campus.Earlier on Tuesday, the feds revoked another $450 million from Harvard after the school was found to have “repeatedly failed” to tamp down on antisemitism and other racial discrimination.The mayor, though, couldn’t point to any groups when pressed on what antisemitic groups have benefited from taxpayer dollars — only the city’s schools, which twice sent out radicalized messages in newsletters.Adams’ bare bones announcement comes after years of increases in antisemitic hate crimes and was praised by some who have called on the city to do more.“We expect the Mayor’s office to use its legal authority to root out systemic Jew-hatred in all city agencies and offices and take proactive steps to end the tyranny of terror that silences and excludes Jewish New Yorkers in schools, at work, and in the city’s streets,�...