The Anti-Defamation League is facing backlash over what its critics have called unwarranted hostility toward Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, after the organization publicized a website and related tip line to monitor his administration for actions that could be construed as antisemitic.
The announcement of the initiative came after a closing stretch of the mayoral campaign during which Mr. Mamdani’s detractors, including Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the A.D.L., repeatedly accused him of antisemitism, a charge he has strongly rejected.
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