Employees of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Department of Health have created a taxpayer-funded ‘Global Oppression and Public Health Working Group’ which will attack Israel with false accusations about “genocide” and “apartheid” as well as promoting anti-Jewish policies.
NY Post DOH staffers held the first “Global Oppression and Public Health Working Group” meeting Tuesday afternoon — in the middle of the workday — with members gathering at the department’s headquarters in Long Island City, as well as remotely. “We really developed in response to the ongoing genocide in Palestine,” one presenter reading from the group’s mission statement said near the beginning of the meeting, according to video obtained by The Post.
NYC Health Department employees under Zohran Mamdani formed an internal “Global Oppression & Public Health Working Group” that accuses Israel of genocide — using city resources and official workplace platforms.
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— Dr. Sheila Nazarian (@DoctorNazarian) February 5, 2026
“This is a meeting using New York City Department of Health resources that promote libel/slander against the Jewish people,” Yael Halaas, president of the American Jewish Medical Association, told the newspaper.
No mention of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that provoked the Jewish state’s retaliatory response and the brutal war in Gaza that followed was made during the more than one-hour presentation, according to a transcript of the meeting and a source who attended.
“The presentation talks about the suffering of Palestinians. Why? They never mention Hamas,” said the employee, who requested anonymity. The staffer also claimed that their woke colleagues never mention antisemitism when it comes to confronting oppression because they do not consider white Jews as victims.
Weeam Hammoudeh, a professor at Hunter College and committee member for the Palestine Global Mental Health Network, was one of the presenters — and falsely accused Israel of treating Palestinians as second-class citizens during the meeting.
“So Palestinian citizens of Israel are citizens but they’re not considered nationals of the state so they’re more restricted in terms of the areas that they can live in and then some like jobs and other opportunities also require military service, and that creates another set of sort of disparities in outcomes,” she said.
“And the working group aims to address the growing interests among the health department staff to learn about current and ongoing global oppression in its many forms and how it influences the advancement of health equity,” the presenter said.
GOPH said its goals were to better understand the impact of global oppression on “the health and well-being of priority communities in NYC vis-à-vis trauma, violence and discrimination” as well as “supporting colleagues negatively impacted” by it, according to a slideshow presented at the meeting.
The flyer for the event was circulated near the elevator banks in the DOH building, a department employee said. A former rep to ex-three term Mayor Mike Bloomberg was stunned that the DOH mission appeared to have veered suddenly from the public health of New Yorkers to foreign policy.
“This is shocking. If these NYC Health Department staffers truly believe Israel is committing genocide, will they now boycott the Israeli pharmaceutical companies that make lifesaving drugs New Yorkers depend on?” said Mark Botnick, who is Jewish.
“Or is this just performative politics that has no place in a taxpayer-funded public health agency?” said Botnick. “Who knew that DOH is turning to foreign policy? I guess I missed that one on the campaign,” he added — in a not-so-subtle dig at Mamdani, a longtime Israel basher.
City Council Speaker Julie Menin demanded a probe into taxpayer fund misuse, Health Committee Chair Lynn Schulman confirmed an internal investigation amid rising antisemitism—up 182% in January—and critics called the event antisemitic and out of bounds for a public health agency serving 8 million.
Mamdani supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against the Jewish state and has himself accused Israel of commiting genocide in Gaza.
Zohran Mamdani once made a vile, conspiracy-tinged statement tying the NYPD and the Israeli military:
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Hope Hamdani overplays his hands to such an extent and in such obvious Islamist manner that those leftist liberals who voted for him in such overwhelming numbers are brought to their senses. This man seems worse than Sheik Obama when he turned the White House to the White Mosque.
Why is NYC, supposedly in a financial “crisis” financing any international issue? There is probably so much fraud and waste in the budget to fix the “crisis” but that is not the solution apparently.
Because there’s always money for if it means hurting Jews,
not to worry ! Jihadi Mamdani has a exasperation date set by Donald Trump who has a bone to pick over with New York and the Democrat Socialist Establishments , The Don feeds them the rope they take it in he has control of where it ends .