Governor of Alabama George Wallace holding up his hand to Deputy U.S. Attorney Nicholas Katzenbach as he bars entrance to two African-American students to the University of Alabama. Later, Governor Wallace stepped aside and the two students, accompanied by the federalized Alabama National Guard, were registered.<\/p>\n
Bettmann Archive<\/p>\n
When he got serious pushback, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani retreated from his empty threat to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. However, Mamdani\u2019s demagogic behavior has precedence and will have ugly consequences. It\u2019s a sad example of our politics today.<\/p>\n
Mamdani knew he had no legal basis whatsoever to try to arrest Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu when he visits New York City in September for the annual convening of the United Nations General Assembly. But the Big Apple\u2019s neocommunist mayor couldn\u2019t resist threatening to jail the leader of the Jewish State. He calculated that this political theater would be a publicity-rich way to wow his anti-Semitic supporters and raise his profile among the Democratic party\u2019s extremist militants around the country. Radical activists like Mamdani are setting the Democratic Party agenda. <\/p>\n
The move was typical of that political ilk. They thrive on stirring up resentments and hatreds by resorting to false, inflammatory accusations. They abuse the language. Israel guilty of genocide against the Palestinians? It\u2019s the first time in history that the population of the supposed victims of an ongoing genocide are actually increasing in population. The far-left\u2019s toxic politics stokes violence.<\/p>\n
Recall Mamdani\u2019s attack video in front of billionaire Ken Griffin\u2019s apartment to push a new tax on second homes. Griffin, who has a big real estate footprint in New York City as well as a multibillion dollar pending project, didn\u2019t take kindly to being vilified and put in personal danger. <\/p>\n
The mayor\u2019s threat to arrest Netanyahu quickly generated serious blowback. Observers quickly pointed out that a New York City mayor has no authority to tell the city police and the district attorney to arrest or indict an individual. <\/p>\n
The federal government conducts U.S. foreign policy, not local officials.<\/p>\n
The arrest warrant for Netanyahu that Mamdani said he was going to enforce, was issued by an entity that has no jurisdiction whatsoever in the U.S. America has never been a member of the rogue and discredited International Criminal Court (ICC). In fact, years ago, the U.S. enacted a law authorizing the use of military force by the president to rescue Americans who got ensnared by the ICC. Our UN ambassador, Mike Walz, rightly labeled the move as \u201cpure political theater.\u201d Senator John Fetterman (D\u2013PA) called Mamdani a \u201ctotal clown. You\u2019re out of your league.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mamdani would have kept up his show but for the fact that his particular threats may have been in violation of U.S. law. But the move fed his lust for attention.<\/p>\n
Mamdani\u2019s whipping up violence-inducing emotions\u2014in this case firing up antiSemitism and scapegoating individuals\u2014has disturbing precedence. In 1957 the governor of Arkansas, defying a court order, used force to block black students from attending a previously all-white high school. President Dwight Eisenhower sent in federal troops to enforce the order. The governor\u2019s open defiance\u2014it got him re-elected\u2014was imitated in Mississippi by its governor in the early 1960s in the face of a court to allow a black student to attend the University of Mississippi. The defiance led to deadly riots and President John Kennedy deploying more than 30,000 troops to restore order. In 1963, the governor of Alabama, George Wallace, got his much-desired national publicity by standing at the door of the auditorium of the University of Alabama to stop two black students from enrolling. He eventually stepped aside. But the show contributed to a lethal atmosphere of violence.<\/p>\n
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