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.”
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!
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…
Noticed the Israeli diplomat didn’t deny anything.
He just screamed about antisemitism.
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.
The synaguoges hosted illegal and immoral activities, naturally protesters will protest there. Fuck off zionazi
There it is. You think Jews practicing their religion equates to immoral activities. Your words prove “anti-zionism” is just another word for antisemitism.
Selling illegal land in synagogues is practicing their religion? Fuck off you scum. The false accusation of antisemitism no longer work
If you hate all zionists and you’re assumimg all Jews are zionists, then you hate all Jews and are therefore an antiemite.
Do I need to draw a Venn diagram?
It is you who assume every jews is a Zionists and claim selling colonized land in synagogues is jews practicing their religion. The protests you claim that was organized to target all jews for their Jewishness near synagogues has jews in them
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.
Freedom of religion is also for everyone. It’s a distinctly American thing to express freedom by taking away another’s freedoms.
Ah, yes, because they managed to prevent these people from practicing their religion by stsnding outside, waving signs around, and publicly stating opposition to genocide, loudly and repeatedly.
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.
They protested near synagogues hosting event selling land where palestinians was illegally expulsed from their land. Fuck you and you whole family
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.
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.
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.
Did you just learn about pissraeli zionists?
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
ftfy
Bootlicker.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Citizens with balls! Imagine a massive US militia surrounding the UN building and taking these scumbags to Rikers island. I mean they always saying this is the reason we need armed citizens and we pay the price with daily school shootings. At least do something good with it.
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?
Nobody cares about rules in the US anymore, including the federal government.
If interpol doesn’t get him I hope a wild drone suddenly appears
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 ;)Everything is fair game on world leaders since the Trump US kidnapped Maduro and bombed the shit out of Iran’s and a girls school at the same time
I can see where this might not be a legal possibility. While it may be legal for NYPD to arrest a foreign national based on an ICC warrant, it would arguably be the United States - not New York City - that is authorized to hand such a prisoner over to ICC, because that is an international matter.
Or, since the warrant is from outside the US, the feds might even need to be involved in the arrest.
This is true. The US is not a member of the ICC and doesn’t recognize its authority. If Mamdani tried to arrest Netanyahu, he may be brought up on federal charges.
The US is not a member of the ICC and doesn’t recognize its authority
is actively trying to dismantle it now and has the Hague Invasion act
https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law
What’s the charge?
He would be charged for violating the American Service-Members’ Protection Act, which grants US servicemen and allies with diplomatic immunity against ICC charges. Under that law it is illegal for any American to assist the International Court against any fellow Americans or their allies. There’s also a clause that states, that if a US citizen or ally is brought to the Hague for trial…the US military will invade the Netherlands in order to extricate those individuals
That’s right. The US has literally passed a law prohibiting the prosecution of US military members and their allies for war crimes. How fucked up is that?
So they have a law to forbid their allies from being charged of war crimes and also to allow the invasion of a country
It’s insane to me what other countries will tolerate out of the U.S. like, you’d expect most states around the world would recognize it as the biggest threat to the world on earth. China? Russia? Nothing compared to the u.s. and it’s not a new issue either.
Enjoying a succulent dinner.
This man knows his judo
He should invite interpol to the conference and let them do it
There was a bunch of discussion about why the government didn’t do something similar when ?Gaddafi? came to UN meetings, and it was that there’s an agreement of some kind (treaty? law? UN charter?) that means people coming to New York for UN meetings cannot be arrested. Of course, this administration and it’s supporters have shown absolutely no regard for any of those to date - but you can bet they’ll be screeching from the rooftops if Mamdani tries to arrest Netanyahu.
Yes, I’m pretty sure that the deal with the Un being in NYC means exactly that.
They just have to put him on a boat in international water. That’s, what, 30 minutes from NYC?
Oh yeah that would work. Sail out, set him in a dinghy, sail away while ICC picks him up.
NYPD has much better boats then a dinghy, but yes
No need to waste a better boat.
Never stops Trump from doing what he wants. You can’t play by the rules when nobody else is.
While it may be legal for NYPD to arrest a foreign national based on an ICC warrant
It is not legal. The US doesn’t recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC and is not party to the Rome Statute. You can’t arrest someone with a warrant in a court that has no jurisdiction.
…soooo… …what about what the US did to the Venezuelan President…?
I mean in my opinion the US is an illegitimate rogue criminal state and everyone in its government should be put to death. The state should be dissolved and the land should be returned to its remaining indigenous populations.
Im not going to support or condemn this, i think this could be a good topic of conversation, but really quick question: what happens to everyone else who lives there in that scenario?
What happened to the Rhodesians?
They would either stay there and live under the governments that were established or go back to where they came from. Maybe without the criminal USAmerican regime that projects violence as its standard foreign policy towards any nation who attempts a different socioeconomic system maybe some of those governments would be socialist and their lives would improve? Maybe without the regressive USAmerican influence on global politics a framework of global socialism can be established.
From a very basic google sesrch, Rhodesia seems to have been conquered by britain in roughly 1923, then regained independence in 1979/1980. That is about 57 years. The US has been around for 250, longer if you count the colonies preceeding it. They arent really at the point where they can just “go back”. Also “go back to where they came from” okay. So, the guy born and raised in the middle of… Lets say, Vermont. His father and mother were both born in the US. Their parents were born in the US. Their parents were born in Russia, China, and Spain. Where does he go? None of these countries have a language he can speak, a culture that he is familiar with, a similar climate, or any real connection to him. Additionally, i agree that the USA should probably back off from attacking other countries, and that they can be a but stuck in the past on a few topics… But socialism doesnt work at scale. It either becomes capitalism with slightly more restrictions on buisnesses, (which is good, but is still capitalism), or it causes millions to starve to death. (Similar to Communism). (Not the point of the conversation, though)
Oooh you’re a moron. I’m going to block you because you have worthless opinions I never want to read.
You can, that’s what extradition is for.
Extradition is a legal process that would require US to the recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC, be party to the Rome statute and sign an extradition treaty with them. You can’t extradite someone to a place you don’t recognize as having authority.
It’s not the only path, if Interpol were to issue an arrest warrant for the ICC (which they did for different cases before) extraditing him from the US would be legal regardless of the Rome statute.
Arrest or summary execution? Decisions decisions…
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
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.
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?
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.
