Former New York mayor secretly honoured Israeli soldiers amid Gaza genocide

Former New York City mayor Eric Adams hosted active-duty Israeli soldiers at City Hall and honoured them for fighting in Gaza while his administration concealed the meeting from the public, according to a report by Politico. The previously undisclosed event took place in April 2024, as Israel intensified its military assault on the besieged Gaza Strip. Adams’s staff are said to have kept the meeting off his public schedule and received instructions not to publish photographs or information about it on social media. “The timing of this seems extraordinary poor,” an administration official reportedly wrote in an email ordering the social media blackout. The email appears in a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by Hasibe Rashid, a Palestinian-American former City Hall […]