Exclusive | Jewish rights group urges Trump admin to probe Mamdani, NYC over failure to protect against antisemitic hate

A Jewish civil rights group is urging the Justice Department to investigate Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his administration for alleged “discriminatory failure to protect Jewish residents from antisemitic hate” crimes.The bombshell accusations from the National Jewish Advocacy Center come two days after the Poetica Coffee shop in Brooklyn told pro-Israel Jewish Rep.Dan Goldman never to enter the eatery again, claiming it doesn’t serve “genocdial enablers.”“The National Jewish Advocacy Center writes to request that the Civil Rights Division open an investigation, under its pattern-or-practice authority … into whether the City of New York and the New York City Police Department are denying Jewish New Yorkers the equal protection of the laws by failing to protect them against a documented and severe wave of antisemitic violence,” said the letter signed by NJAC CEO Mark Goldfeder and other staff lawyers.NJAC cites NYPD data showing Jewish New Yorkers were the victims of 330 reported hate crimes in 2025 — or 57% of the total – while Jews account for just one of every 10 New York residents.“That’s more than six a week.

This referral asks the Division to answer why the City’s response to that record runs in the opposite direction from the data,” Goldfeder said in the letter dated Tuesday to Patrick McCarthy, acting chief of the Justice Department’s Special Litigation Section Civil Rights Division.The referral claims the mayor’s own decisions and words have contributed to discrimination against Jews.“Whether the City adopts or revokes a definition of antisemitism for its agencies, how it structures and funds the office charged with combating hate, and whether a Council bill protecting Jewish schoolchildren becomes law or is vetoed, are executive policy choices the Charter assigns to the Mayor,” the letter to the Justice Department said.Mamdani, upon taking office in January, rescinded executive orders approved by preceding Mayor Eric Adams t...