NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today signed two executive orders that will ensure city agencies continue to make sound financial decisions that protect taxpayer dollars and that protect New Yorkers’ right to practice their religion at houses of worship without harassment, while protecting freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.
Executive Order No. 60 prohibits mayoral agency heads, agency chief contracting officers, and any other mayoral appointees with discretion over contracting from engaging in procurement practices that discriminate against the State of Israel, Israeli citizens, or those associated with Israel.
The executive order also prohibits the chief pension administrator and mayoral trustees to the city pension system from opposing divestment from bonds and other assets that would discriminate against the State of Israel, Israeli citizens, or those associated with Israel.
IDK, sounds like DEI.
Is being associated with a foreign country a protected class? How would this be legal discrimination as the word is currently defined?
As an American citizen, whose tax dollars are funding an Israeli perpetuated genocide in Gaza, I am associated with Israel. So discrimination against me is now illegal, and the city of New York must now purchase my goods and services.