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Forward: In new job, the ‘Anthony Fauci of the New York City Council’ aims to fight COVID and antisemitism

Forward: In new job, the ‘Anthony Fauci of the New York City Council’ aims to fight COVID and antisemitism

Mark Levine, a term-limited councilman from Manhattan, is battle tested. In his two campaigns for the City Council, Levine, who is Jewish, was subject to vitriolic antisemitic attacks from a primary rival. “I have confronted explicit antisemitism in politics before and I’ve proven that we can beat it,” he said after his re-election. And just as he was preparing to be sworn in as Manhattan Borough President on Saturday, Levine contracted COVID for the second time.

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