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On his first day in office on Thursday, 1 January 2026, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani revoked several executive orders issued by his predecessor, Eric Adams, including the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, and the city's opposition to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Palestinian-led, nonviolent campaign to pressure Israel to comply with international law. Born to an Indian mother and an Indian-Ugandan father, Mamdani, who was sworn in with…
