cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49644560
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.
Its going to be dope as hell when the civil war pops off with NYPD vs ICE in a shootout in Manhattan.
In what world is the NYPD on the people’s side?
Whomever wins, we lose.
Ha I doubt Mamdani would make his police chief order NYPD to forcefully grab Netanyahu if ICE (or any other federal force) was physically protecting him. The furthest I could see it escalating is NYPD cops staring at his escort.
I’m sure the NYPD has plenty of Palestinian volunteers.
Hit it covertly and dump him in some embassy that absolutely would extradite him. Or sneakily get him into a truck and just chauffeur him.
Legal? Probably not.
But that shit has flown the chicken coop.
Don’t forget the New York national guard
To protect a corrupt Jewish warlord citizen of Israel… I don’t know if there’s irony there but it does seem like some kind of cosmic joke.
For us non Americans can you please explain the connection between Netanyahu and ICE
Trump 100% supports Netanyahu, and ICE is basically his version of the Brown Shirts.
ICE’s arrest tactics are ripped directly from the IDF’s playbook:
https://truthout.org/articles/ice-and-the-israeli-military-are-2-sides-of-the-same-coin-we-must-resist-both/
https://www.waterjusticeinpalestine.org/blog/2026/1/27/ice-amp-the-israeli-army-are-using-the-same-playbook
https://asiapacificreport.nz/2026/01/15/from-palestine-to-minneapolis-ice-and-israel-use-the-same-violent-playbook/
For the record, they ripped them from Hitler’s playbook.
Who ripped them from some prior asshole’s playbook.