Netanyahu accuses NYC Mayor Mamdani of 'fomenting hate' after arrest threat
Netanyahu accuses NYC Mayor Mamdani of 'fomenting hate' after arrest threat - Published Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he planned to...
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- Netanyahu accuses NYC Mayor Mamdani of 'fomenting hate' after arrest threat - Published Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he planned to attend the UN General Assembly in New York City this autumn, despite the city's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, making threats to arrest him.
- Mamdani walked back that threat last week, acknowledging he lacked the legal power to arrest Netanyahu on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, the world's top war-crimes court.
- Netanyahu referenced a pair of stabbings in New York on Thursday, in which a suspect stabbed a Jewish man and an Asian man just blocks apart.
- In an address last week, he called Netanyahu a "war criminal." As part of that platform while campaigning, Mamdani promised to enforce a 2024 arrest warrant for Netanyahu from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which accused the prime minister of committing war crimes in Gaza.
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Netanyahu accuses NYC Mayor Mamdani of 'fomenting hate' after arrest threat - Published Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he planned to attend the UN General Assembly in New York City this autumn, despite the city's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, making threats to arrest him. Mamdani walked back that threat last week, acknowledging he lacked the legal power to arrest Netanyahu on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, the world's top war-crimes court. Netanyahu referenced a pair of stabbings in New York on Thursday, in which a suspect stabbed a Jewish man and an Asian man just blocks apart. In an address last week, he called Netanyahu a "war criminal." As part of that platform while campaigning, Mamdani promised to enforce a 2024 arrest warrant for Netanyahu from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which accused the prime minister of committing war crimes in Gaza. Last week, after the New York Times pressed Mamdani on his pledge to arrest Netanyahu, Mamdani said his administration had reviewed the law and found: "We do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant". Mamdani urged the federal government to arrest the prime minister, and...