Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been criticized for his claim that New York City's taxes do not cause high earners to relocate to states with lower tax rates, such as Florida and Texas. The New York Post's editorial board characterized his statement as a "myth."
Public Figures Under Scrutiny
The publication also highlighted other remarks made by public figures this week. An open letter from Jewish "celebrities" defended actor Mark Ruffalo, stating that "pointing out the crucial connections between what is happening in Gaza and what is happening in Hollywood is the exact opposite of antisemitism." The Post's editorial board countered that linking an unrelated Hollywood studio merger to the Israel-Hamas conflict "sounds exactly like antisemitism."
Journalist Emma Vigeland reportedly stated that "the people that bore the brunt of the Holocaust were the Palestinians." The Post's editorial board disputed this, asserting that European Jewry, who were killed in the genocide, "bore the brunt of the Nazi genocide."
Separately, Representative Jim Clyburn (D-SC) is quoted as saying the Supreme Court "wants to take this country back... to those rulings... that said no black man has any rights that a white man must respect." The Post questioned this assertion, asking which recent high court cases strip rights from Black people or empower white individuals to disregard them, and conversely argued that the Supreme Court has worked to strengthen the principle of color blindness and equality under the law.