00:00We all saw that Capacosta stepped down, and I think you might be aware the ADL just released a report on the more than 400 people you appointed to transition committees.
00:11Among that report they identified Ms. Ansari, who posted a cartoon depicting Israel as a dog.
00:18There was another person on the Committee on Worker Justice, Kazeef Fuzia, who said resistance is justified hours after October 7th.
00:27Someone else saying Zionism is racism from the Committee on Legal Affairs, someone from the Committee on Worker Justice, who shared a post that said Zionists are worse than the Inquisition and the Nazis.
00:41Will the policy of your administration be to reject candidates who are actually hired to your administration when positions, when they express anti-Semitic positions or have anti-Semitic statements in the past?
00:56Are you going to automatically reject them from your administration?
01:00Were any of these statements or these people that I identified or that were identified in the report, were these already flagged or identified by your transition team?
01:09So I have always spoken out against anti-Semitism and hatred in any form and have made it clear that the commitment I have made to protect New Yorkers, to protect Jewish New Yorkers, is one that I will uphold as the next mayor of the city.
01:24And we must distinguish between anti-Semitism and criticism of the Israeli government.
01:31The ADL's report oftentimes ignores this distinction, and in doing so, it draws attention away from the very real crisis of anti-Semitism we see, not only just in our city, but in the country at large.
01:43And this is a team we are speaking of, of more than 400 New Yorkers that we have assembled to advise on the transition.
01:51These are committees, 17 of which, that range from worker justice to the importance of the arts.
02:01And we will continue to build an administration of appointees that reflect not only our commitments, but also the fulfillment of our affordability agenda.
02:10Did any of those examples I read or in the report, if your team looked at it, did any of those go too far to where you said, okay, this is kind of anti-Semitic?
02:19I think there's, there's no tolerance for, for anti-Semitism.
02:22And also, when we're thinking about critiques of Zionism and different forms of political expression, as much of what this report focuses on, there's a wide variety of political opinion, even within our own 400-plus transition committee, on the Israeli government and its conduct.
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