Mamdani acknowledges he doesn’t have authority to arrest Netanyahu
Mamdani said the city cannot enforce the ICC warrant and urged federal officials to arrest Netanyahu instead.
- On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a video stating his administration lacks legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging federal officials to execute the International Criminal Court's warrant instead.
- During his 2025 mayoral campaign, Mamdani pledged to arrest Netanyahu based on the ICC's 2024 warrant alleging war crimes, including "starvation as a method of warfare," during the Gaza conflict.
- President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that Netanyahu "will not be arrested, in any way, shape or form, while in the United States of America," citing foreign-policy authority.
- Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon denounced Mamdani's rhetoric as "blood libels," telling him to "do your job" and accusing him of amplifying "Hamas' propaganda."
- Netanyahu is expected to visit New York City in September for the United Nations General Assembly, where diplomatic immunity protections remain a significant legal obstacle to any arrest.
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Mamdani, Netanyahu and the capitalist state
Mamdani’s declaration that he will not arrest Netanyahu is, as a factual matter, a reversal. As a candidate, he pledged to arrest Netanyahu if he came to New York, and as recently as July 18 he said in an interview with the New York Times that he was in “active conversation” with the city’s law department about enforcing the ICC warrant.
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'Netanyahu is a war criminal’: Zohran Mamdani calls on US government to act
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the city does not have the legal power to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits the United States, but has called on federal authorities to enforce the International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant issued against him, Cape {town} Etc reports. In a video shared on social media on Tuesday, Mamdani described Netanyahu as ‘a war criminal’ and accused him of being the ‘architect of a horrif…
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