Mamdani Appointee Resigns Over Decade Old Antisemitic Post

NEW YORK (AP) — One of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani ’s appointees has resigned over social media posts she made more than a decade ago that featured antisemitic tropes, Mamdani’s office said... In a statement, Catherine Almonte Da Costa, who was tapped this week to join the incoming administration, said she expressed “deep regret” for the posts, which date back to 2011 and 2012 and were... “These statements are not indicative of who I am. As the mother of Jewish children, I feel a profound sense of sadness and remorse at the harm these words have caused,” Da Costa said. She had been selected to lead Mamdani’s office of appointments, handling “talent recruitment strategy.” Da Costa worked in the office more than a decade ago and more recently held roles at a private communications... Mamdani has accepted her resignation, his spokesperson confirmed.

NEW YORK (AP) — One of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani ’s appointees has resigned over social media posts she made more than a decade ago that featured antisemitic tropes, Mamdani’s office said... In a statement, Catherine Almonte Da Costa, who was tapped this week to join the incoming administration, said she expressed “deep regret” for the posts, which date back to 2011 and 2012 and were... “These statements are not indicative of who I am. As the mother of Jewish children, I feel a profound sense of sadness and remorse at the harm these words have caused,” Da Costa said. She had been selected to lead Mamdani's office of appointments, handling “talent recruitment strategy." Da Costa worked in the office more than a decade ago and more recently held roles at a private communications... Mamdani has accepted her resignation, his spokesperson confirmed.

A top appointee to New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s incoming administration on Dec. 18 resigned over resurfaced antisemitic social media posts. A day earlier, Catherine Almonte Da Costa had been announced as the incoming mayor’s director of appointments, which leads the administration’s hiring for city leadership. She previously had roles in city government and the private sector, including Sotheby’s, according to the Mamdani transition team’s Dec. 17 news release. On Dec.

18, the Anti-Defamation League posted a series of Da Costa’s old X, formerly known as Twitter, posts between 2011 and 2012 when she made anti-Jewish tropes. Mamdani, who takes office Jan. 1, is set to become New York’s first Muslim mayor, and he's faced criticism from many Jewish groups over his stances toward Israel and Palestine. Exit polls showed most Jewish voters didn’t support Mamdani. New York is home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel. In 2011, when she was around 19 years old, Da Costa posted “Money hungry Jews smh,” as well as “Woo!

Promoted to the upstairs office today! Working alongside these rich Jewish peeps.” A 2012 post called a train line “the Jew train.” Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s appointee Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned just a day after she was tapped as director of appointments. New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pick for a crucial City Hall position resigned on Thursday, shortly after her history of antisemitic posts on X came to light. Mamdani had announced his appointment of Catherine Almonte Da Costa as director of appointments, responsible for staffing City Hall, on Wednesday. But on Thursday, several posts on X where she peddled age-old antisemitic stereotypes were published by the Judge Street Journal, a Substack about New York City politics.

“Money hungry Jews smh,” Da Costa posted on a now-deleted account on X in January 2011, when she 19 years old. In another post from June 2012, she wrote, “Far Rockaway train is the Jew train,” appearing to reference the large Jewish communities off the line. NEW YORK (AP) — One of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani ’s appointees has resigned over social media posts she made more than a decade ago that featured antisemitic tropes, Mamdani’s office said... In a statement, Catherine Almonte Da Costa, who was tapped this week to join the incoming administration, said she expressed “deep regret” for the posts, which date back to 2011 and 2012 and were... “These statements are not indicative of who I am. As the mother of Jewish children, I feel a profound sense of sadness and remorse at the harm these words have caused,” Da Costa said.

She had been selected to lead Mamdani's office of appointments, handling “talent recruitment strategy." Da Costa worked in the office more than a decade ago and more recently held roles at a private communications... Mamdani has accepted her resignation, his spokesperson confirmed.

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