LAWSUIT: After Mamdani Scrapped Jewish Protections, Anti-Jew Hate Crime Skyrockets 150%, Then Illegally Hid the Evidence

Jihadi Mayor Zohran Mamdani gutted legal protections for Jewish New Yorkers in his first hours in office, then his administration illegally buried the records that could expose why City Hall did it, who helped shape the decision, and how far its anti-Israel agenda now reaches, a new lawsuit alleges.

The suit, filed in New York State Supreme Court by veteran investigative journalist Richard Behar, seeks to force the city and Mamdani to turn over public records tied to Executive Order No. 1, the mayor’s Jan. 1, 2026 order rescinding a series of executive orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams after the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel and ensuing explosion of anti-Jewish bigotry across the U.S.

Adams’ orders created the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism, adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, barred city participation in BDS-style discrimination against Israel, protected Israeli investments and economic ties, and directed enhanced NYPD protections for houses of worship.

Mamdani wiped those protections out on day one.

Then, according to court filings, City Hall did all it could to keep the public from knowing why and how Mamdani’s decision was made — including who may have influenced it.

Read the AO7 article here.

Mamdani’s New York: Anti-Jewish hate crimes up 150% last month

By Robert Spencer: Jun 15, 2026 5:00 pm

A previous report said anti-Jewish hate crimes were up 71% over a year ago. But the situation is rapidly worsening, as the report below explains. As Intifada on the Hudson documents, Mamdani’s antisemitism was known from the beginning of his political career. He has even said that he got into politics because of the “Palestinian” issue. He made no secret of his disdain for Israel and Jews throughout his campaign, particularly in his notorious refusal to condemn the phrase “Globalize the Intifada,” which is a thinly veiled call for the murder of Jewish civilians everywhere. So it’s no surprise in the slightest degree that his friends and supporters would be feeling emboldened, and acting accordingly.

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“Anti-Jewish hate surging at ‘staggering margin’ in NYC, up 150% last month, by some NYPD metrics,” by Menachem Wecker, JNS, June 12, 2026:

(Jun. 12, 2026 / JNS) The New York City Police Department said that anti-Jewish hate crimes were up 70.8% in the city last month compared to May 2025. It didn’t inform the public that, if it compared statistics from the months in a broader way, the increase was more than double that—150%.

Under New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who overturned many of his predecessor’s executive orders protecting Jews and Israelis hours into his tenure, the city has twice changed the way it reports hate crimes after the Big Apple recorded a 182% increase in antisemitic hate crimes in Mamdani’s first month on the job.

In February, the city shared only “confirmed” hate crimes but not “reported” ones, and after a backlash, it said in March that it would record “confirmed” and “reported” hate crimes separately.

Mamdani’s spokeswoman has said that synagogues that host pro-Israel events violate international law, and the mayor has said several times that he would have the Israeli prime minister arrested in New York City. Jewish leaders have told JNS that the mayor isn’t doing enough to protect Jews in the city.

A JNS analysis suggests that since the city reported hate crime statistics for “confirmed” and “reported” incidents separately for March, the city has suggested that there is no percentage change in the 103 anti-Jewish “confirmed” hate crimes in that span in 2026 compared to 2025. But if the city also shared the statistics for “reported” anti-Jewish hate crimes, it would suggest that the 140 reported anti-Jewish hate crimes in the city from March to May are a 32% increase over similar incidents from March to May in 2025.

Last month, the NYPD said that there were 41 “confirmed” anti-Jewish hate crimes in the city, which it said was a 70.8% increase on the 24 “confirmed” in May 2025. When the department shared statistics last month on “reported” hate crimes, it said that 60 such reports targeted Jews. It didn’t provide information on how that compared to reported incidents in May 2025.

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The 41 “confirmed” hate crimes targeting Jews in New York City last month represent more than 60% of the total number of “confirmed” hate crimes, 68, that month. Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the NYPD, has said that Jews make up about 10% of city residents….