” New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and accused him of using his UN General Assembly speech to repeat “baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide of Palestinians.
In a statement issued hours after Netanyahu’s address, Mamdani said the Israeli PM is the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. “As he has done time and again, Prime Minister Netanyahu used his speech to repeat baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide of Palestinians,”Mamdani said. Netanyahu called Mamdani “the antisemitic mayor of New York” and said that Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, liked a post praising the October 7 massacre While addressing the UN General Assembly. Mamdani, you try to stop me from coming here,” Netanyahu said. He has also said that his criticism of Israel and advocacy for Palestinian rights do not amount to antisemitism.
You refuse to condemn any of that. You falsely and repeatedly accuse Israel of genocide. Mr.
The mayor has since encouraged the federal government to arrest Netanyahu, though Trump has said the prime minister will not be arrested. Yet no lie can change the fact that he remains the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity,” he said in the statement. Earlier reporting noted: Earlier, Mamdani called on the US federal government to execute the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, while reiterating that the Israeli leader is “not welcome” in New York City.
“As he has done time and again, Prime Minister Netanyahu used his speech to repeat baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide of Palestinians. Earlier reporting noted: New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Thursday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of using his address at the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to repeat what he called “baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide of Palestinians.