On his first day as mayor, New York City’s Zohran Mamdani decided to set the stage for his time in office by slashing key executive orders designed to protect Jewish residents of the city. His choice to cut all executive orders passed by Eric Adams since Sept. 26, 2024, has little to do with his claimed purpose of creating a “clean slate” following the indictment of the former mayor.

Instead, it is a thinly veiled attempt at weakening the definition of antisemitism in a way that allows for Mamdani, an opponent of Israel, to attack the Jewish state and leave Jews across the city vulnerable to discrimination. This city is my home, and my community has been intentionally left vulnerable by our mayor’s abandonment of the legal safeguards that were designed to ensure our safety.