Zohran Mamdani Appointee Resigns After Antisemitic Tweets Surface

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Dec 28, 2025, 1:38 PM

zohran mamdani appointee resigns after antisemitic tweets surface

Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2025. Donate today Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations Zohran Mamdani’s newly tapped director of appointments resigned Thursday hours after the discovery of antisemitic social media posts she made more than a decade ago. “I spoke with the mayor-elect this afternoon, apologized, and expressed my deep regret for my past statements,” Catherine Almonte Da Costa said in a statement provided by Mamdani’s transition team. One day after Mamdani’s announcement of the appointment, the Anti-Defamation League and others posted screenshots of antisemitic tweets from an account associated with Da Costa.

For instance, one screenshot showed a 2011 post where she referred to “Money hungry Jews.” Another screenshot shows a 2012 tweet where she wrote, “Far Rockaway train is the Jew train.” Gothamist has not... The account associated with the tweets no longer exists on X. An appointee tapped to lead New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's recruitment efforts resigned Thursday after antisemitic social media posts resurfaced. Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned a day after Mamdani named her director of appointments, with responsibilities to strategize recruitment in his administration. "I spoke with the Mayor-elect this afternoon, apologized, and expressed my deep regret for my past statements. These statements are not indicative of who I am," Da Costa said in a statement through Mamdani’s transition team.

"As the mother of Jewish children, I feel a profound sense of sadness and remorse at the harm these words have caused. As this has become a distraction from the work at hand, I have offered my resignation," she added. In remarks after Mamdani announced her appointment Wednesday, Da Costa had described “building a government that is both mission-driven and deeply capable, a government staffed by diverse leaders with the skill and the experience... With under two weeks to go before he’s sworn in, New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has not announced many hires for his administration. One of the few that he has announced was forced to almost immediately resign Thursday after her past antisemitic tweets came to light. Catherine Almonte Da Costa, whom Mamdani named his director of appointments just on Wednesday, in 2011 tweeted about “money-hungry Jews” and other similar comments, in posts first reported by The Judge Street Journal, a...

In a statement, Da Costa said, “I spoke with the Mayor-elect this afternoon, apologized, and expressed my deep regret for my past statements. 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. As this has become a distraction from the work at hand, I have offered my resignation.” Mamdani’s transition also provided a statement from the mayor-elect: “Catherine expressed her deep remorse over her past statements and tendered her resignation, and I accepted.” Several New York political insiders told CNN that they questioned the incoming administration’s vetting process, given that she was picked despite tweets that were revealed so quickly after her announced hire.

A key official in New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s administration resigned a day after he named her to the job, following the resurfacing of social media posts she’s published […] The post Key... Candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a Democratic New York City mayoral primary debate, June 4, 2025, in New York, US. … Source link Zohran Mamdani A top aide to socialist New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani resigned Thursday with just one day on the job, after past antisemitic, anti-white and anti-police comments on her social... Catherine Almonte Da Costa, who was announced Wednesday as Mamdani’s director of appointments, stepped down after the Anti-Defamation League A senior hire in incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has abruptly resigned after a series of resurfaced social media posts revealed she had repeatedly expressed anti-white and anti-Semitic sentiments.

The post Top Mamdani Official’s Anti-White, Anti-Semitic Social Media Posts Exposed appeared first on Slay News. Catherine Almonte Da Costa lasted exactly one day as New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's director of appointments before decade-old social media posts torpedoed her career. The posts, made between 2011 and 2012 on a now-deleted X account, included references to "money hungry Jews," "rich Jewish peeps," and described a Far Rockaway train as "the Jew train." — Read the... Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent. NEW YORK — An appointee to New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s incoming administration resigned on Thursday after old antisemitic social media posts surfaced earlier in the day. Mamdani named Catherine Almonte Da Costa as his administration’s director of appointments on Wednesday.

The director of appointments is a high-ranking role in the mayor’s office that oversees the recruitment and placement of key staff. On Thursday, a day after Mamdani tapped her for the role, the Anti-Defamation League exposed antisemitic comments Da Costa posted on X in 2011 and 2012. Da Costa wrote, “Money hungry Jews smh,” using an acronym that stands for “shaking my head.” Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned Thursday from her newly announced role in Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s administration after her past social media posts containing antisemitic language resurfaced, triggering swift backlash. Da Costa had been named just a day earlier as Mamdani’s incoming director of appointments. Her resignation came hours after the Anti-Defamation League of New York and New Jersey publicly questioned whether Mamdani’s team was aware of offensive posts she had made on X, formerly Twitter, more than a...

Those posts, dating back to 2011 and 2012, included explicit antisemitic stereotypes. In one January 2011 tweet, Da Costa wrote, “Money hungry Jews smh.” Later that year, she posted, “Woo! Promoted to the upstairs office today! Working alongside these rich Jewish peeps.” Another post from 2012 read: “Far Rockaway train is the Jew train.” The account remained active until Thursday afternoon, when it was apparently deleted. Before the account went dark, the ADL demanded clarity from Mamdani’s camp, asking whether the posts were known, whether they were excused, and how similar conduct would be addressed in the future.

One day after being hired by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Catherine Almonte Da Costa submitted her resignation after antisemitic statements in old Twitter posts dating back to 2011 surfaced Thursday. Mamdani transition sources tell NBC New York that he and his transition were unaware of the posts when they appointed Da Costa Wednesday. When Mamdani put Da Costa in charge of hiring for the city, she pledged to recruit diverse talent. "They have to reflect the rich diversity of race faith ethnicity that defines this City," she said at the time. But today, 33-year-old Da Costa was apologizing for antisemitic posts dating back to when she was 18 years old. The posts were first found by the Anti-Defamation League, and then more problematic posts were uncovered by Timmy Facciola in a story on Substack.

Soon after, Da Costa took down her Twitter account. 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.

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