New York (AFP) – New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is in talks over whether to try to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an upcoming UN summit, he said in an interview published Saturday – prompting a sharp rebuke from Netanyahu’s camp.
“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani told The New York Times. “He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court.”
The leftist Mamdani, who has called Israel an “apartheid regime,” added: “That is an opinion that is held by many, purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years.”
Mamdani admitted he was not sure if he has the power to order the New York Police Department to detain a foreign leader but is discussing the matter with the city’s legal team.
“Whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that’s what we will do,” he said.
The UN General Assembly, a major gathering of world leaders, takes place in September at UN headquarters in New York.
Mamdani in the past has vowed to send the NYPD to enforce arrest warrants against leaders wanted by the International Criminal Court, including Netanyahu or Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Hague-based ICC said in 2024 that it had reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu was responsible for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity related to Israel’s offensive in Gaza following the unprecedented […] attack by Hamas.
Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, quickly called out Mamdani.
“Instead of focusing on his responsibilities as mayor and confronting the rising wave of antisemitism in his city, he has chosen to incite hostility and generate headlines by attacking the State of Israel,” Danon wrote on X.
“It will not change a thing. Israeli Prime Minister @netanyahu will come to New York, address the United Nations General Assembly with pride, and stand before the world to state Israel’s truth and its unwavering right to defend its citizens,” he said.
“And if anyone should be arrested, it is @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani.”
Netanyahu has accused Mamdani of supporting Hamas, saying on a recent New York radio show: “I think, secretly, he hates America.”
All he has to do is invite interpol to the UN assembly and give them authority to make arrests in his city. Let them handle the rest. I wouldn’t trust NYPD with the task anyway…
So many bibi bots on here with stupid talking points. Please arrest this POS so he can rot in a prison for his crimes against humanity. If this terrorist bibi does it to the Palestinians what makes you think he wouldn’t do it to you? I already like Zohran but if he did this he should run for president and take away all of Israel aid cause no one else has the balls to do it and I would fully support Zohran for a Presidential run!
Just do it following the arrest warrant by ICC.
Afair the USA doesn’t recognize the ICC.
But as they don’t follow an awful lot of their own laws, they could follow some foreign ones for a change ;)Unfortunately to pull this off (even ignoring legality matters) would have to literally put the UN and Isreal Embassy under siege. I highly doubt the NYPD has that capacity.
That being said I don’t think the NYPD has legal mandatory obligations to protect the locations from crowds mass protesting said locations.
So Israel and its leaders can do whatever they want, and anyone who calls them out on it is automatically “inciting anti-semitism?”
I’m not sure that’s how this works, pal.
That’s exactly how it works to everyone licking Israel boots. They will pull the race/hate speech card every time. They use it as a shield to shift blame.
That’s exactly how it works to everyone
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While The US is not a signatory to the ICC, it IS in an extradition treaty with Interpol, and THEY DO have the jurisdiction to act on ICC warrants.
Just a little nugget.
Doesn’t that only apply to the federal government?
Just do it. Arrest him and immediately put him on a plane to the Netherlands. Let the ICC deal with him.
Just say you were helping ICE deport a violent individual with a warrant. Force the fascists to justify being against that since that’s exactly what they’ve been claiming ICE is doing, and bypassing the courts to do so.
Hello, Malicious compliance!
honestly, he could frame it to trump as a way to skapegoat the whole iran war onto him and give donald an out. it wouldn’t fool anyone with a iq above room temperature but it would def work on MAGAs. but something tells my netanyankydoodle has something on donald thats worse then just him being friends with epstine.
At this point Donald and all his cronies that voted and supported this genocide should also rot in prison.
Ok, who gonna put them there tho…
something tells my netanyankydoodle has something on donald thats worse then just him being friends with epstine.
Epstein and Maxwell were both mossad. Bibi has the FULL, UNREDACTED LIST.
he likely has more then a list, he likely has videos, and even trump knows a picture is worth a thousand words.
Announcing it loudly, so Bibi can avoid the meeting. Why…
Forcing Netanyahu to stay home without the potential complications of actually arresting him I suppose.
I don’t think this is a good idea since one major aspect of the UN is that it is suppost to be a neutral ground. If this somehow goes though it could have a massive destabilizing effect on the world. I’m all for arresting war criminals. The problem is geopolitical.
There is also the little tiny issue of him announcing this ahead of time. If he was serious about this he probably should’ve done this in secret
The ICC is a body established by the UN. To allow a war criminal with an active ICC arrest warrant to stand free on UN ground makes a mockery of that.
You do have a point there
Yeah, you were spot on with the announcement bit, though. If he were serious about getting it done, he should have just… done it.
Though perhaps it will keep the war criminal from feeling free to come to the UN, and maybe that was the goal.
Lol nope.
It would only strengthen trust in the ICC, and powerful people would realise that people run the world, they don’t.
Noticed the Israeli diplomat didn’t deny anything.
He just screamed about antisemitism.
Fuck all of these evil people. I don’t care what religion they are, if they commit and defend genocide then they deserve to be in prison for the rest of their lives.
Antisemites morphed from being someone that hates Jews to someone Jews hate.
Israel doesn’t represent the Jewish community
Your statement is ironically antisemitic
Israel represents “a” Jewish community, just not the “whole” Jewish community. And I an anti-religion, not just Judaism. I don’t care what bucket that puts me in.
Anti-zionistm morphed into antisemitism when anti-zionists started protesting at their local synagogues.
Mamdani being the mayor of a city with a large Jewish population is well aware of the rise in antisemitism and the connection to anti-zionism. It’s just politically expedient for him to look the other way and not talk about the issue.
There is nothing wrong in protesting in front of a synagogue, a church, a mosque or a town hall.
Freedom of speech is for everyone.
It is when you are blaming the people in the Synagogue for war crimes. Leave the Jewish community out of this as they are completely innocent and do not have Amy control or influence on the actions of Israel.
I don’t have precise numbers, but from what I see in social media, mainstream media and Jewish people I know, an alarmingly large number of this community stand behind Israel’s actions.
Protesting peacefully in front of a synagogue seems like a good way to reach the target audience.
Lol. The protests that I’m aware of were at synagogues who were explicitly doing things to support the Zionist state and their colonial/invasion efforts. Even still, that’s one of the dumbest arguments you could make. Does protesting outside of a bank mean you hate everyone who uses a bank? Does protesting outside of a state hall mean you hate everyone who uses the government apparatus?
Maybe the Zionist state of Israel should stop using racism as a shield to defend their actions of commiting a genocide and stealing land, and people would actually listen! Have you heard the story of the boy who cried wolf? Eventually people realize that you’re just making shit up, and they shouldn’t listen to you. If you want some credibility, come up with a better argument and stop the bullshit. Let your bosses know. Maybe they can make the change and actually help you, instead of making everyone hate you.
Here’s an article about passing a law to create a buffer zone around synogugues to prevent anti-zionist from doing antisemitc shit:
Note:
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has also signed a separate, local law requiring the New York Police Department to disclose plans on how it handles protests outside houses of worship and rules on how it could use security perimeters.
Mamdani knows this shit is going on, and is just quietly putting up perimeters to keep the antisemitism from getting out of hand. He’s not speaking out about antisemitism in New York, because he’d lose support from his “anti-zionist” base because a lot of them are the ones actually doing the antisemitic shit.
Hasbara bot spotted
Yeah I believe they had all their comments removed in a different thread where they spouted the same nonsense.
Amazing. I hope zohran does it.
Netanyahu has accused Mamdani of supporting Hamas, saying on a recent New York radio show: “I think, secretly, he hates America.”
Lol. Projection, perhaps.
He will get murdered if he arrests Netanyahu
The US doesn’t recognize the ICC, is not party to the Rome Statute and it is not legal to enforce their warrants there. This is why he is being coy about it. People want him (Mamdani) to do something that is illegal for him to do in the US and will get him murdered.
I thought like you, remember what happened to his corruption’s case judge Benny Sagi
Just do it and face the legal consequences later.
Oh please do it. Imagine being able to arrest Hitler when everyone knew he’s not just invading but genociding. Should have arrested Putin in Anchorage, too.
Wow, this is a really shitty article.
Cold you not find one that calls the genocide a genocide? And doesn’t give a platform to wanted war criminals?
