A former Women’s March leader who was forced out of the organization for anti-Semitism has reemerged as a member of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team.
Tamika Mallory, an inaugural co-chair of the Women’s March protest group that formed in response to President Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, was among more than 400 people named to various transition committees on Monday. She will serve on the transition team’s Committee on Community Safety.
The Women’s March cut ties with Mallory in 2019 after founder Teresa Shook wrote in a Facebook post that Mallory and three other leaders had “allowed anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment, and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the platform by their refusal to separate themselves from groups that espouse these racist, hateful beliefs.” Shook called on the co-chairs to leave the organization, stating that their extremism had “steered the Movement away from its true course.”
During the first Women’s March meeting in November 2016, Mallory reportedly “asserted that Jewish people bore a special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people—and even, according to a secondhand source, claimed that Jews were proven to have been leaders of the American slave trade,” Tablet reported in 2018.
She also reportedly berated a Jewish co-founder, telling her, “Your people hold all the wealth.”
The notion that Jews led the transatlantic slave trade, Tablet noted in its report, has been “popularized by The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews, a book published by Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.”
Mallory has a well-documented relationship with Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. She posted a photo with Farrakhan on Instagram in 2017, calling him “the GOAT.” She also attended a Nation of Islam event in 2018 where Farrakhan denounced “Satanic Jews” and declared them “the mother and father of apartheid.” He added that “the Jews have control over those agencies of government” and accused Jews of using marijuana to induce homosexuality in black men.
