NY reparations panel members should resign over ‘disturbing’ antisemitic and anti-police views: GOP pols

Two appointees to a new state committee considering paying reparations should resign for making “disturbing” antisemitic and anti-police remarks, New York Republicans said Wednesday.GOP members of the state Senate called for Ron Daniels and Lurie Daniel Favors to step down from New York’s nine-member “commission to study reparations and racial justice,” which they were appointed to by state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx).“The deeply offensive views of these members should completely disqualify them from serving in any government-appointed position, especially one supposedly intended to unify our state,” Minority Leader Robert Orr and other Republicans in the state Senate said in a joint statement.Republican lawmakers have called on Ron Daniels and Lurie Daniel Favors to resign from the state’s reparations panel over antisemitic and anti-police statements on social media. James Keivom“The abhorrent bias of these commission members will no doubt cloud their decision-making and taint their recommendations.”Daniels has claimed that white people are responsible for climate change and backed Hamas’ terrorist hostilities against Israel, while Favors pushed to defund the police, The Post recently reported. “When announcing the members of the newly created reparations commission, Governor [Kathy] Hochul referred to the appointees as an ‘extraordinary group of highly-qualified individuals.’ The announcement...