New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rolled out a $30 million plan to fight antisemitism — and buried inside it is a $6.4 million grant to a hate-crime partnership that includes one of the city's most vocal anti-Israel organizations.
According to Fox News Politics, the funding goes to Partners Against Hate (PATH), a coalition that works to "enhance awareness and reporting of hate crimes" and partners with six other groups. One of them is the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) — an organization formerly led by disgraced Women's March co-founder Linda Sarsour, a longtime anti-Israel activist.
The arrangement means city tax dollars earmarked to protect Jewish New Yorkers will flow, at least in part, to a network that includes a group that has spent years attacking U.S.-Israel ties.
The AAANY-PATH relationship is not new. The group was listed as a PATH partner in a 2021 press release from then-Mayor Bill de Blasio, which announced a $3 million grant distributed among partner organizations. "The anchor organizations will work closely with the [Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes] and other city agencies to ensure a comprehensive, community-based approach to preventing hate crime," that release stated.
What is new is the scale — and the timing.4 million antisemitism component to the strategy has drawn scrutiny from multiple outlets, including financial filings reviewed by other newsrooms indicating that millions could reach organizations with records of anti-Israel advocacy.
"My administration has a responsibility to ensure New York City remains a place where Jewish New Yorkers can live their lives peacefully and safely, where they can walk down the street, enter their houses of worship and build their lives knowing that this city will stand with them," Mamdani said in a strategy document accompanying the plan.
The numbers driving the push are real. NYPD reporting cited by Fox News Politics shows antisemitic acts account for roughly 9% of the city's tracked hate crimes in 2026 — the single largest category. In the first eight months of 2026, recorded hate crimes citywide jumped 16% over the same period last year. Hate crimes against Jews reached 181, compared with 29 incidents recorded in the "homosexual" category and 21 against Muslims.
The 35-page Mamdani plan, according to reporting from Yahoo and other outlets, recommends continuing and expanding existing city policies — Holocaust education in public schools, training for city workers on Jewish customs — but never expressly mentions the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jewish leaders and critics argue that omission is the problem: anti-Israel hostility is a documented driver of antisemitic harassment in the city, and a strategy that refuses to name it cannot seriously address it.
Mamdani has faced accusations of antisemitism over his history as a critic of Israel, according to The New York Times. The mayor's office has not responded publicly to questions about why AAANY remains inside a funding pipeline meant to protect Jewish communities.
This is a developing story. Next News Network will update as more information becomes available.
Our Take
Only a socialist politician could sell New Yorkers a $30 million antisemitism plan and route $6.4 million of it through a coalition that includes a group once run by Linda Sarsour — the same activist who helped turn the Women's March into a hostile environment for Jewish women.
The math here is not complicated. Hate crimes against Jewish New Yorkers hit 181 in eight months. Antisemitic incidents are the largest slice of the city's hate-crime pie. And the mayor's answer is to cut checks to a network that has spent years treating the Jewish state as the enemy.
Patriots know the playbook: rebrand the money, keep the same radical recipients, and dare anyone to object. Object, and you're accused of opposing hate-crime prevention itself. That's the squeeze — and it worked for de Blasio in 2021 when AAANY's PATH partnership got baked in with far less scrutiny.
What's different now is the size of the check and the identity of the mayor writing it. A self-described socialist who refuses to name anti-Israel hatred in a 35-page document about antisemitism is not confused about the problem — he simply will not say it out loud.
New York's Jewish families deserve real protection, not a funding pass-through that launders taxpayer dollars into organizations aligned with the very hostility they face. The City Council should demand a full accounting of every dollar flowing through PATH to AAANY — and voters should remember who signed off.
If the mayor truly wants Jewish New Yorkers to "live their lives peacefully," he can start by not funding the people who make that harder.
