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Highactive4 months ago
Israel Executive Orders Rollback
Revoked Adams orders banning city agencies from boycotting Israel and adopting IHRA antisemitism definition. Israel called it 'antisemitic.'
Defense
Revoking Adams-era orders restores government neutrality — city agencies should not be legally barred from BDS-aligned decisions, and the IHRA definition's adoption by government was an overreach into contested political speech.
Criticism
Rolling back both the IHRA antisemitism definition and anti-boycott protections sent the Jewish community a signal of diminished city support at a moment when antisemitic incidents in NYC were rising sharply.