Also, I don’t mind criticism at all—I welcome it—but if you are going to write that I “often veer into caricature or half-truth,” perhaps tell me who you are?

Thanks for reading! Doesn’t your point strengthen, rather than weaken, my argument? The new mayor also promised, I think, to retain the old mayor’s commission on antisemitism, even though it was established after his indictment. So what we can take from that is that the mayor has enabled BDS and rejected the IHRA working definition not because of a process concern, but because he is opposed to them.