sexta-feira, 19 de dezembro de 2025
Top Mamdani appointee dramatically quits after antisemitic posts resurface
Catherine Almonte Da Costa apologized for posts referencing 'money hungry Jews' and other derogatory comments.
Zohran Mamdani’s newly named director of appointments abruptly resigned Thursday after resurfaced social media posts showed she made antisemitic remarks, according to reports. Catherine Almonte Da Costa, tapped to serve in the incoming New York City mayoral administration, stepped down after the Anti-Defamation League of New York/New Jersey raised concerns about her past online activity.
The posts, reportedly made between 2011 and 2012 on a now-deleted X account, included references to "money hungry Jews" and "rich Jewish peeps" and called a Far Rockaway train "the Jew train." "Her social media footprint includes posts from more than a decade ago that echo classic antisemitic tropes and otherwise demean Jewish people," the ADL wrote on X.
"Tweeting about ‘money hungry Jews’ is indefensible. We appreciate Da Costa has relationships with members of the Jewish community, but her posts require immediate explanation not just from Ms. Da Costa, but also from the mayor-elect," the post said. Da Costa deleted her account and offered her resignation. "I spoke with the mayor-elect this afternoon, apologized and expressed my deep regret for my past statements," Da Costa told the Judge Street Journal Thursday.
"These statements are not indicative of who I am. As the mother of Jewish children, I feel a profound sense of sadness and remorse at the harm these words have caused. As this has become a distraction from the work at hand, I have offered my resignation".
Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned soon after being named director of appointments following ADL concerns. Mamdani accepted the resignation, telling the Judge Street Journal, which first reported the posts, "Catherine expressed her deep remorse over her past statements and tendered her resignation, and I accepted." Mamdani had said that Da Costa would be in charge of bringing "top talent into this administration."
Da Costa previously worked for former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration on its census team. Catherine Almonte Da Costa has apologized for posts referencing "money hungry Jews" and other derogatory comments. In addition to the antisemitic remarks, other resurfaced posts revealed derogatory comments toward the NYPD, including references to "NYPD piggies," according to the New York Post. The resignation came less than two weeks before Mamdani is to be sworn in as New York City mayor.
How Australian Islam proved it is not a religion of peace
We need to face the fact that Islam in Australia is not a religion of peace. Here’s the proof.
No one who reads the media releases and blogs below could possibly be surprised that 15 innocent people, mainly Jews, were slaughtered at Bondi last Sunday.
This unspeakable atrocity did not occur in a vacuum. Petrol was poured on the flames of antisemitism.
Support for Islamic murder and rape began in Australia while the bodies of slaughtered Jews in Israel were still warm and months before any Israeli military response.
Deeply worried, Family First was quick to join calls for Muslim leaders to break their silence over the mass rally of Muslims on the steps of the Opera House on October 10 yelling “gas the Jews” and “f…the Jews”. That silence was never broken and it spoke volumes and the consequences have been devastating.
In the aftermath of October 7, Channel 9 screened an interview of a Muslim spokeswoman, Assala Sayara, saying Hamas had been “framed” as a terrorist organisation. Seriously?
No one in the Muslim community corrected this dangerous nonsense.
No Muslim leader condemned Sheikh Ibrahim Dadoun, a former Director of Public Relations at the Australian National Imams Council, who declared on October 8 that he was “smiling” and “elated” while declaring a “day of victory”.
A crowd of western Sydney Muslims around him yelled “Allahu Akbar”.
Hate preacher after hate preacher rose to rostrums in mosques and Islamic centres and called for violence against Jews or called them vile names.
Much of this is detailed in the largely ignored media statements and blogs below that we published over the past two years.
In November 2023 we recorded the public comments of Wissam Haddad (aka Abu Ousayd) of the Al Madina Dawah Centre in Bankstown.
It turns out that centre was frequented by Bondi Jihadist mass murderer Naveed Akram.
We called out other Australian Muslim hate preachers such as Sheikh Ahmed Zoud, head of the Muslim Votes organisation Sheikh Wesam Charkawi and others for backing Hamas.
Zoud later apologised but that didn’t stop Dadoun and Charkawi from holding a “glory to the martyrs” rally last October 7 in Paul Keating Park celebrating the achievements of Hamas.
Family First also called for terrorist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir to be banned in Australia.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who spoke up during the days of the first Holocaust, famously said “silence in the face of evil is evil itself, not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act.”
As protestors chanted weekly for two years “from the river to the sea”, a call for a second Holocaust, Australia’s religion of peace was silent as was the Labor Government.
Australian Islam has proven itself to be an enemy of peace, not a religion of peace.
Silence in the face of, and complicity with evil, created the environment for Islamic terrorism to visit Australia last Sunday.
Guns are not the problem. Islam is.
Posted by Lyle Shelton on December 17, 2025
quinta-feira, 18 de dezembro de 2025
O Natal que não deixaram entrar
Australian iman celebrates, in Sidney, the killings at Bondi beach
"I'm smiling and happy. I'm elated, it's a day of courage, it's a day of pride". The crowd answers "Allahu Akbar". There sould be no tolerance for intolerants.
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