Outgoing NYC Mayor Adams Signs Executive Orders Barring City From Supporting BDS Movement
“Executive Order 60 makes it clear: BDS has no place in our city. The movement is antisemitic in nature and discriminatory in practice.”
Eric Adams, the outgoing Mayor of New York City, has signed a pair of executive orders intended to prevent the city from supporting the anti-Israel ‘Boycott, Divest, and Sanction’ (BDS) movement. Incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani is not only supportive of the BDS movement, but his strongest supporters are also adherents of this ideology.
This is precisely why Mamdani has threatened to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he comes to the city; it’s all to placate his anti-Israel supporters.
It’ll be fascinating to see how the Mamdani folks react to this.
FOX News reports:
Adams issues orders blocking NYC from boycotting Israel as clash with Mamdani grows
Outgoing New York City New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed two executive orders Wednesday aimed at countering antisemitism and preventing city funds from supporting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The New York Post reported that Adams barred city business or pension investment decisions that discriminate against Israel, a move that could be viewed as a challenge to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who supports the BDS movement.
While speaking at a conference in New Orleans sponsored by the North American Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism, Adams said his administration “recognizes the benefit of maintaining a strong relationship between the city of New York and the state of Israel,” according to The Post.
The second order issued by the mayor would call for tighter enforcement from the New York City Police Department to help protect synagogues and other religious worshipers from harassment.
The new orders heighten an ideological clash between Adams and Mamdani, who can decide whether to scrap the orders after taking office on Jan. 1.
More from the New York Post:
The proposed restrictions come a week after a mob of protesters gathered in front of the Park East Synagogue on the Upper East Side, uttering hateful chants such as “globalize the intifada” and “death to the IDF.”
“New York City has always been this nation’s melting pot, but, too often, over the last few years, we’ve seen those of Jewish ancestry be singled out and targeted,” Adams said.
“Today, we are ensuring our city government doesn’t participate in that type of behavior and are putting in safeguards that protect New Yorkers’ tax dollars and protect their right to practice their religion without harassment.”
Adams’ Executive Order 60, meanwhile, mirrors a state executive order issued in 2016 by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo — and continued by Gov. Kathy Hochul — that prohibits state agencies from doing business with companies that support the BDS movement against Israel.
This is no coincidence. Adams knows exactly what he is doing here.
Eric Adams signs anti-BDS executive order in veiled swipe at Mayor-elect Mamdani https://t.co/RU5Pm8ur9n pic.twitter.com/KAALsLvp3y
— New York Post (@nypost) December 4, 2025
Executive Order 60 makes it clear: BDS has no place in our city. The movement is antisemitic in nature and discriminatory in practice. NYC contracts and pensions must serve the public good. Discrimination is illegal. Antisemitism is abhorrent.
— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) December 4, 2025
Mamdani’s supporters will obviously urge him to ignore these orders. Will he?
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There should be exec orders to support ICE, there are plenty of illegal homicidal Muslims who should be expelled.
And… so what? How will it bind the new guy who can write his own orders?
This is just a bit of stompy-foot virtue signaling by Adams. (Or he would have done it more than a year ago.)
The purpose is to put these orders in place so that Mamdani is faced with a choice whether to revoke them or not. Revoking them will be politically difficult for him, so he’s much rather just not face the issue, but now he will have to.
There was no need to do this a year ago, because Adams had no intention of boycotting Israel.
This order will have a shorter half-life than Biden’s insistence that the ERA had been ratified.
Maybe, but it’ll be embarrassing and inconvenient for Mamdani to revoke these orders. He can do so, but he may decide it’s too hard and put it off.
Good move. He should do a flurry about things people like, so Mamdani will have to reverse them and people can see more clearly about what they did to themselves.