Judge appointed to Mamdani panel accused of taking no action against virulent antisemitism and racismat nonprofit

Zohran Mamdani appointed an ex- judge to his Advisory Committee on the Judiciary who is accused of allowing racism and antisemitism to fester at a non-profit, court papers reveal.Milton Tingling was appointed to the new committee last month, but also serves as board chair of the West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC), currently under fire over alleged racism from its executive director, Zaed Ramadan.“Ramadan … engaged in a pattern of unprofessional and discriminatory behavior in the workplace, including racist, antisemitic, and otherwise ethnically offensive remarks,” the lawsuit filed by ex-board member Vince Morgan charges.Ramadan’s remarks intensified after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, according to the lawsuit, which claims in the days afterward Ramadan held a two-hour meeting in Morgan’s office with New York State Assemblyman Charles Fall, and a Brooklyn imam to consult on what the WHDC’s response to the terror attack should be, according to legal documents.The imam at the meeting was identified as Siraj Wahhaj, a controversial Brooklyn religious leader  once named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who urged “jihad” on New York City in the early 2000s.After the meeting about the Oct.7 attacks, which left 1,200 people dead, “Ramadan informed plaintiff he had become very skilled at using language that would pass the Jewish community standards for rhetoric considered antisemitic, and he devised special code words to use so his anti-Israeli statements and statements about Jews could not be directly described as antisemitic, although the statements were made to highlight Jewish greed and attempt to control and manipulate New York politics,” the lawsuit states.In another incident, Ramadan — also a board member of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in New York City — also allegedly “spent considerable time describing how [former] Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and h...