By: Fern Sidman – Jewish Voice News

A recently surfaced document detailing the Alliance of Working Women and Gender (AWWG) Palestine Policy Meeting Agenda & Notes dated November 2, 2025, exposes what appears to be a calculated effort by a coalition of activists—closely aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)—to embed anti-Israel policies into New York City’s political framework. The meeting, convened under the banner of the “AWWG Palestine Policy Working Group,” outlines a series of initiatives that go far beyond ordinary policy debate and veer into overtly punitive measures aimed at Israel and Jewish institutions.

The agenda, reviewed by The Jewish Voice, reads less like a standard civic planning session and more like a manifesto for economic and political warfare against the Jewish state and its supporters. The proposals—meticulously itemized and assigned to “researchers” and “writers”—target nearly every facet of municipal governance, from pension funds to law enforcement training, with the unmistakable goal of isolating Israel and its allies from New York’s civic and economic life.

According to the document, participants at the November meeting were set to “review policy/demands document drafts” and “assign researchers/writers to each policy piece.” The tone is procedural, but the content reveals a systematic campaign to weaponize public institutions against Israel. Among the group’s most striking proposals:

Divesting city pension funds from Israeli bonds and securities

Withdrawing municipal funds from banks that lend to or conduct business with Israel

Ending all city contracts with companies that maintain commercial ties to Israel

Evicting weapons manufacturers and transporters from the NYC metropolitan area

Dismantling Mayor Eric Adams’ NYC-Israel Economic Council

Ending NYPD training partnerships with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)

Arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF soldiers for alleged “war crimes.”

This language, stark and punitive, signals an ideological escalation. The agenda’s recurring use of “divest,” “evict,” and “end” underscores a radical departure from diplomatic advocacy toward coercive economic and political disengagement. As one veteran political observer told The Jewish Voice, “It’s not about policy reform. It’s about erasure—erasing ties, erasing cooperation, and erasing the legitimacy of Israel itself.”

While the AWWG (short for Alliance of Working Women and Gender) has styled itself as a progressive policy organization, its agenda bears unmistakable resemblance to the rhetoric and tactics of the DSA’s “Palestine Solidarity Working Group.” Over the past five years, the DSA and its affiliates have steadily embedded anti-Israel activism within the machinery of local governance, advancing boycotts and divestment campaigns under the guise of “social justice.”

The AWWG document illustrates how far this effort has penetrated. Items such as “End repression of demonstrators and the SRG” (the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group) and “Remove non-profits from charities that raise funds for the IDF” indicate a convergence between anti-police activism and anti-Israel campaigns—a hallmark of the DSA’s “intersectional” political strategy. By merging domestic and foreign policy grievances into a single platform, these groups seek to normalize hostility toward Israel as an essential element of progressive identity.

Of particular concern to Jewish leaders and moderate Democrats is the group’s apparent ambition to institutionalize these ideas within New York City’s bureaucracy. The agenda proposes to “divest CUNY’s endowment and reinstate wrongly fired professors,” a reference to academic controversies surrounding faculty members dismissed for promoting antisemitic or pro-terrorist rhetoric. Similarly, the demand to “operate city-run grocery stores free from Israeli products” reads as both symbolic and logistical—an attempt to leverage public resources to enforce ideological conformity.

“This is not grassroots activism,” a senior political analyst familiar with the document told The Jewish Voice. “It’s administrative capture. They’re trying to rewire the infrastructure of the city to serve a foreign political cause.”

The document’s fixation on Israel is striking not only for its intensity but also for its exclusivity. Nowhere in the agenda is there mention of pressing local issues—homelessness, rising crime, or economic recovery. Every major item is tethered to Israel or to entities alleged to support it. Even the group’s internal tasks—such as assigning co-chairs, scheduling meetings, and reviewing “strategy/timelines”—revolve around implementing or publicizing anti-Israel policies.

That singular focus, critics argue, exposes the true nature of the movement: not one motivated by compassion for Palestinians, but by animus toward Israel and the Jewish people. “If you read between the lines,” said one city council staffer, “this isn’t about humanitarianism. It’s about delegitimization. They’re cloaking hostility in the language of policy.”

The AWWG’s agenda also reflects a growing ideological fusion between far-left movements and pro-Islamist factions—a phenomenon scholars have dubbed the “Red-Green Alliance.” As Israel National News and other outlets have previously documented, this alliance merges the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the radical Left with the anti-Zionist fervor of Islamist political networks. The result is a coalition that couches antisemitic tropes in the language of decolonization and human rights.

The meeting’s proposed actions—such as prosecuting Israeli officials, dismantling economic partnerships, and censoring Israel-related charities—mirror this transnational ideological alignment. What begins as a local policy discussion quickly expands into an international campaign of demonization, targeting Jewish institutions both at home and abroad.

The timing of this document’s emergence could hardly be more consequential. Since the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023, antisemitic attacks in New York City have surged to levels unseen in decades. Synagogues have been vandalized, Jewish students harassed on campuses, and pro-Israel rallies met with violence. In that climate, meetings such as AWWG’s—held under the pretense of “Palestine solidarity”—risk fanning the flames further.

Michael Weinstein, a community leader from Queens, told The Jewish Voice that such agendas “send a clear message that the safety and dignity of Jewish New Yorkers are negotiable.” He added, “When public groups propose policies to defund or delegitimize Jewish institutions, that’s not social activism. That’s systemic antisemitism dressed in progressive clothing.”

The agenda’s call to “arrest Netanyahu and active IDF soldiers for war crimes” is particularly emblematic of the movement’s moral inversion. While Israel continues to face existential threats from Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran, the AWWG’s focus remains on criminalizing the Jewish state’s defenders.

“By prioritizing hostility toward Israel over issues that actually affect working people, the DSA and its allies have revealed their true agenda,” a former city official who reviewed the document told The Jewish Voice. “They’re not building a better city. They’re exporting a conflict—and importing hatred.”

In the coming months, as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani—himself a self-identified Democratic Socialist—prepares to take office, documents such as this may foreshadow the kind of ideological policymaking that awaits New York. If groups such as the AWWG succeed in embedding these demands into the city’s political framework, New York could soon become the epicenter of an unprecedented campaign to boycott and punish the world’s only Jewish state.

The November 2nd agenda may have been drafted for an internal meeting, but its implications are far-reaching. Its tone is bureaucratic; its intent, unmistakably political. At its core lies a vision of a city defined not by unity or justice, but by division—where policy becomes a weapon, and Israel a perpetual target.

The danger, as one Jewish civic leader warned, is not only in the document’s words, but in the silence that follows them. “If we allow this to go unchallenged,” he said, “we risk normalizing Jew hatred under the banner of progress.”