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EXCLUSIVE: Moshe Davis on His Ouster by Mamdani
Moshe Davis, former executive director of New York City Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism. (Office of the New York City Mayor)
The new mayor replaced a “proud Zionist” with a controversial liberal activist to head New York City’s Office to Combat Antisemitism.
By Olivia Reingold
02.05.26 — New York
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On Wednesday afternoon, Moshe Davis, executive director of the New York City Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism, said he heard a knock on his door at City Hall. It was a Zohran Mamdani staffer there to deliver “unsurprising” news.

“We’re looking to go in a different direction,” he said the staffer told him.

To Davis, a 28-year-old Brooklyn native, it was clear what that direction meant.

“Look, I’m a loud, proud Jewish person with a kippah on my head, a proud Zionist,” he said. “This administration maybe felt that was too much for them.”

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Olivia Reingold
Olivia Reingold is a staff writer at The Free Press. She co-created and executive produced Matthew Yglesias’s podcast, Bad Takes. She got her start in public radio, regularly appearing on NPR for her reporting on indigenous communities in Montana. She previously produced podcasts at Politico, where she shaped conversations with world leaders like Jens Stoltenberg.
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