A number of pro-Palestine groups slammed Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani for his decision to retain Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner in an open letter , accusing Mamdani of abandoning a cause central to his political identity.

Dozens of groups signed onto the Tuesday evening letter, including Students for Justice in Palestine’s national and several local chapters, Within Our Lifetime and far-left Marxist and communist Democratic Socialists of America caucuses.

“We strongly oppose this decision,” the groups said in an open letter directed at Mamdani. “Retaining Tisch represents a political alignment with the NYPD’s legacy of racialized policing, surveillance, and repression, and a retreat from the values of justice and liberation that Mamdani’s campaign claimed to champion.”

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