New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he was reviewing whether his administration could arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if as expected the Israeli prime minister visits the city for the UN general assembly in September.
Mamdani’s comments on Saturday’s episode of the New York Times’s the Interview podcast echoed ones he had made to the publication as he successfully ran for mayor last fall.
“I believe that prime minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani said, referring to the Dutch city that is home to the international criminal court, which issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in November 2024 over alleged war crimes in Gaza. “He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the international criminal court, and what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many, purely because of what his actions have wrought over these past many years.”
Mamdani said it was unclear to him whether he has the legal authority to order the New York police department (NYPD), which he oversees, to detain a foreign leader like Netanyahu. But he said he was in “an active conversation” with the city’s law department about the matter.
Ok lets say he tries. The Secret Service and the MOSSAD are never going to let NYPD near him for national security reasons. Israel is a nuclear power, this could kick off a major international incident.
And him saying this puts them on high alert, if you wanted to do this you say nothing and do it. Thats why I think this is just grand standing.
No, man. I love that he’s said it publicly.
I love that Bibi doesn’t get to waltz into the US with this manufactured air of respectability, and I love that if he does come to New York he’s going to have to field questions about being a war criminal.
The failure to say things that need to be said is, in part, how we got here.
And besides, it’s good politics. He got elected in part by refusing to do the Israel waltz that all the genociding centrists have been doing for decades. This kind of pushback is what voters want.
Let’s say they arrest him. Do you really, REALLY think they will send nuclear bombs? Where to? NY, where Bibi would be? WA, where their puppet is? Iowa because fuck of I know?
lol I said nothing like that, it shows that they are a top tier military that can use that sway to influence their region in ways the US would rather not see. This is not that simple as what your saying. This is Geo Politics and a green mayor should stay out of it.
Good every one should be shouting it, if the pedo ring collapses and trump files get exposed I’m willin to spill billionaires blood
The rich never go to war, the poors like us are sent to the slaughter.
This has nothing to do with trump, this is way bigger than that.