Just vile Islamophobic hate that has no place in this city — and that makes Muslims, Jews, and all of us less safe.
Posts by Phylisa Wisdom
Chag Purim Sameach and a freilichen Purim! To Jewish New Yorkers, may you have a joyful Purim, celebrating the courage, bravery and resilience at the heart of the holiday. As many begin to celebrate Purim, the NYPD will be deploying additional resources to synagogues and cultural institutions across the five boroughs to help ensure a joyful and safe holiday.
Photo from @nycmayor on Instagram story. The mayor, Zohran Mamdani is sitting in a mosque, holding a plate of hamantaschen and eating from it. It says next to his right hand: "Iftar, Day 13"
This is NYC:
Iftar + Purim = @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social breaking the fast on hamantaschen 🎭🥰
Ah Freilichen Purim to us all!
Liam Conejo Ramos was just one of the hundreds of heartbreaking stories of what children are facing in immigrant detention centers. Kids are getting sick, having panic attacks, and getting just an hour of education a day. It's unacceptable and must change.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
Wonderful news from NYC: We are thrilled to hear that @mayor.nyc.gov has selected @phylisawisdom.bsky.social to lead the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism!
Mazel tov to Phylisa Wisdom on being appointed to head the @mayor.nyc.gov Office to Combat Antisemitism. @phylisawisdom.bsky.social is the perfect person for the job. I’ve had the blessing to watch her lead @nyjewishagenda.bsky.social in many critical moments.
There are many talented organizers charting a different course – an approach to keeping our community safe through solidarity, relationships, smart policy interventions, and universal civil rights. @phylisawisdom.bsky.social is a great choice and I suspect she too will champion that model. 9/9
Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epstein’s money comes from “Jewish billionaires” and a “Jewish banking family,” another responds that he was a “sex rabbi.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...
Always a pleasure to talk to @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social!
"“God’s name is being desecrated through our sins,” Rabbi Amital wrote nearly five decades ago. “Is it possible to remain silent?!” Today, his challenge tragically rings just as true."
My words in the Forward today (appropriately on Rav Amital’s yahrtzeit)
forward.com/opinion/7575...
It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought.
Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too.
What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.
This violence does nothing to help the Palestinian cause, but will raise tensions in NY and undermine the work being done to advance peace in Israel & Palestine. This senseless, antisemitic attack contributes to growing fears in Jewish communities in NY & throughout the country. 2/4
We are shocked by the vile, antisemitic attack last night outside the AJC event at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. 1/4
Supporting hostages & supporting 1st amendment is not either/or choice. Nor does one have to agree w/what a person says to believe they have right to say it--and to not be deported. Anyone committed to democracy & the Jewish people must reject such binaries.
jewishinsider.com/2025/05/dan-...
Correct from the president of Harvard
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
JFNA and Eric Fingerhut attacking a statement from the Conservative & Reform movements & others, organized by JCPA, as not “mainstream”…. tells me that JFNA in fact is outside the mainstream.
This attack inspired me to make a gift to JCPA. Join me: jewishpublicaffairs.org/donate/
Did the president come out with strong condemnation of this attack on a Jewish governor on the first night of Pass– what’s that? He gave a brief statement claiming the guy wasn’t a “Trump fan”? And then his admin went back to threatening students over “antisemitism”? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"I don't know how to read a story of deliverance from an unjust system w/o thinking of how my own country is...attempting to expel someone for their 'expected beliefs,' or of how this is being done in the name of Jewish safety"
For @forward.com on Moses & Mahmoud Khalil
forward.com/opinion/7119...
I hope that at every single seder, as we contemplate and celebrate our ancient liberation story, we draw connections between what is being done in our names and what was historically done to us. None of this is about Jewish safety, none of this is okay.
NYJA was proud to join this effort. May we go into Passover thinking about liberation for all people, and each of our roles in that.
NO THANK YOU, Marco.
apnews.com/article/mahm...
(🧵1/3) DHS can now deny immigration benefits -- including applying for visas and lawful residency -- based on whether or not the current administration thinks your social media activity aligns with *their* interpretation of antisemitism.
BREAKING: The Trump administration will begin screening immigrants’ social media for “antisemitism.”
This will NOT fight antisemitism.
This is simply using Jews as an excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda.
We refuse to be used this way.
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head.
He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.
Bring them back!
Hands off this nuts cart just trying to cross the street!
Hands off! NYC
It has been two weeks since a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage, and not one major national outlet has covered the story