If you are known by the company you keep, then Zohran Mamdani told us all we needed to know a long time ago. We simply just keep getting more confirmation that we were right the first time.

Even though he insists that he really very much totally and sincerely cares about the New York City Jewish community, Mayor Mamdani has a whole lot of associates who very much loathe Israel, or are so left-leaning that any concerns about anti-Semitism must immediately be balanced out with “anti-all the other things.” Lisa told us last week about how Mamdani brought in a rabid leftist to be his new “anti-Semitism czar” after ousting the rabbi who had held the position… but was pro-Israel.

“I’m a proud Jew who wears my kippah on my head and is proud of my heritage and the ancient Jewish relationship with the land of Israel,” Rabbi Moshe Davis, whom Mamdani replaced on Wednesday, said in response to a question about why Mamdani let him go. “Maybe that wasn’t the right vibe for them.”

Mamdani appointed (Phylisa) Wisdom, the leader of the left-wing group New York Jewish Agenda, to run the office in a move that Davis—who worked in the department for more than three years before becoming its executive director in May 2025—said has little to do with his record, which he said “speaks for itself.”

When he was first elected, Mamdani’s team insisted that they wanted “competent people” of “unassailable integrity.”

The Washington Free Beacon has been keeping a running list of anti-Israel and committed leftists that Mamdani is choosing to hire as mayor, and it doesn’t fit what the mayor’s team said they wanted, and it is actually pretty revealing as to what they deem acceptable.

After winning the mayoralty, Mamdani appointed several anti-Israel and anti-Semitic advisers to his transition team and cabinet. As the Free Beacon reported last week, Mamdani hired Waleed Shahid, an anti-Israel activist who blamed Israel for Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack and defended slogans calling for the elimination of the Jewish state in since-deleted posts on X. Mamdani’s initial pick for director of appointments, Catherine Almonte Da Costa, resigned after old social media posts—including one in which she bemoaned “Money hungry Jews”—came to light. A top adviser on his transition team, Hassaan Chaudhary, used the word “Jew” as a slur and praised former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for saying that Israel is a “cancer which will be eliminated very soon.”

Deleted social media posts – or wiping out one’s old X account – has become de rigueur among Mamdani staffers. Cea Weaver, his fragile and sensitive “tenant advocate” deleted both her X account and Facebook profile when she got tripped up by her previous comments. Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned, but not before trying to delete her X account in order to wipe away her anti-Semitic comments. Waleed Shahid, who is supposedly Mamdani’s “deputy communications director for economic justice,” tried the selective deletion route.

I’m going to say this again, and louder, for the people in the back – THE INTERNET IS FOREVER. Deleting your X account will not prevent old comments from being dug up and questioned if you are getting a job in the NYC mayor’s administration, and being paid with taxpayer dollars. So it should come as no surprise that even more new hired by the Mamdani administration are busy deleting old comments and hoping no one notices.

The Washington Free Beacon noticed.

Mamdani soon after taking office appointed Alvaro Lopez, the former electoral coordinator of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, as his Brooklyn borough director, a source familiar with staffing at City Hall told the Washington Free Beacon. Lopez had served as a member of Mamdani’s inaugural committee, during which a since-deleted post on X in which he called people who ripped down flyers of Israeli hostages “heroes” raised eyebrows.

Also on Mamdani’s staff is Drashti Brahmbhatt, an adviser to the mayor for “100 Day Planning and Implementation.” A member of the Democratic Socialists of America since at least 2021, Brahmbhatt has a history of demonizing Israel since her time in college. While a student at Brown University, Brahmbhatt was a leader on campus calling for the university to divest from companies that do business within the Jewish state. In a since-deleted X post from May 2021, she wrote, “Palestine is one of the greatest moral issues of our time,” adding that “Israel is an apartheid state.”

Brahmbhatt even stated that she backed Mamdani BECAUSE he was “supporting BDS and the Palestinians.” She has a long list of deleted X posts that have been preserved for posterity.

Top Zohran Mamdani advisor Drashti Brahmbhatt has been a longtime and ferocious critic of Israel and Jewish people — with a trail of deleted X posts a mile long as well

Including some of the most notable here for the record: pic.twitter.com/EiGJQ8BnSI

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) February 9, 2026

Another new hire, Manvir Singh, is now serving as a senior policy analyst in Mamdani’s administration. Like many other Mamdani appointees, Singh deleted his X account after old posts—including one in support of defunding the police—came to light. A Free Beacon review of his old X account found several other extremist posts, including one in which Singh accused Israel of committing “terrorism” with its operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

I’m sensing a trend here. And according to the Free Beacon, none of these new Mamdani hires want to comment about their bad old tweets! I’m shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.

After two recent attacks on Jewish residents in New York City since Mamdani took office, the mayor stated that he “stands in solidarity with Jewish New Yorkers” and “antisemitism has no place in our city.” However, it is all too obvious that anti-Semitism is perfectly acceptable in City Hall, among the mayor’s staff. If it wasn’t, Mamdani wouldn’t be hiring these people. His boilerplate language when something bad happens is just a rote script that he uses to sound “official” and “inclusive.” His actual hires are telling a much different story.

So, what are you going to believe? Mamdani’s pretty X posts that he puts up to sound good, or the X posts that his hires are busy deleting wholesale?

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