Mamdani examines legal options for arresting Netanyahu

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani is in “active conversation” to see if he can seek an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. The wanted Israeli war criminal will be visiting the big apple in September to attend a United Nations General Assembly.

Mamdani: ‘He belongs in the Hague’

Mamdani’s popularity continues to confound and irk the Israel lobby. He has rightly said Israel should not exist as an ethnostate. Both he and his family have been targeted by Israel’s lobbyists for daring to show solidarity with Palestinians against genocide.

He has also said that Netanyahu belongs in the International Criminal Court in the Hague and will be arrested, but only if US law allows. In an interview

I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in the Hague. He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court. And what you will find is that it is an opinion that is held by many, purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years.

Whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that’s what we will do, but we won’t be writing our own laws to that end.

All too predictably, Netanyahu claimed that Mamdani ‘champions Hamas,’ and hates the US in an interview with a NY-based radio station:

I think he should look at who he’s condemning, who he’s praising. He’s condemning Israel… Who does he champion? Hamas, that calls openly to massacre every Jew on earth, that conducted that horrible massacre [on Oct. 7, 2023], the worst massacre on Jews since the Holocaust…

…And in fact I think secretly, he hates America.

International law is unequivocal that the UK has a legal obligation to arrest Netanyahu and other accused war criminals if they have the opportunity to do so.

While claiming to respect international law, the Starmer regime routinely gave special immunity to allow Israeli genociders to come to the UK with impunity. UK police forces have also refused even to investigate UK citizens accused of participating in Israel’s Gaza genocide.

At least Mamdani is making the right noises.

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