A New York City program that Mayor Zohran Mamdani says will combat antisemitism involves a partnership with aggressively anti-Israel activists.

The city’s “historic” plan to stop hate crimes will include increased funding for Partners Against the Hate, an initiative launched in 2021 with six leading advocacy groups, Mamdani’s office said Tuesday. One of them is Arab American Association of New York, or AAANY, which had Palestinian firebrand and Mamdani supporter Linda Sarsour as its leader for over a decade. It also cheered on a violent 2024 encampment demonstration at Columbia University and other pro-Gaza protests following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, even when they led to arrests, its social media posts show.

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