{"id":560949,"date":"2026-07-26T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/560949\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:37:10","slug":"netanyahu-accuses-mamdani-of-fomenting-hate-in-calls-for-pms-arrest-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/560949\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu accuses Mamdani of \u2018fomenting hate\u2019 in calls for PM\u2019s arrest | US news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> said on Sunday that Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, the New York City mayor, is \u201cfomenting hate\u201d by calling the Israeli prime minister a war criminal who should be arrested over Israel<\/a>\u2019s war in Gaza if he visits the city for the United Nations general assembly.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu said he intends to be in New York<\/a> in September to address the annual UN gathering of world leaders, despite the mayor\u2019s suggestion that he is not welcome. Mamdani said<\/a> on Wednesday that while New York City does not have legal authority to execute an arrest warrant issued by the world\u2019s top war crimes court, he encouraged the federal government to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s supposed to be the mayor of all New Yorkers \u2013 Jews, Christians, Muslims, everyone,\u201d Netanyahu said<\/a> on the Fox News channel\u2019s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. \u201cBut he\u2019s trying to turn one group against the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prime minister has become an increasingly polarizing figure over Israel\u2019s war in Gaza<\/a>, which was ignited by the 7 October 2023 deadly attack on southern Israel by Hamas militants. Israel also joined the US in starting the war against Iran<\/a> on 28 February before launching a ground invasion in southern Lebanon in response to fire from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu on Sunday dismissed the international criminal court (ICC)\u2019s war crimes charges<\/a> against him as \u201cbogus\u201d. He pointed to sexual misconduct allegations against the ICC\u2019s top prosecutor, who was removed<\/a> from that post on Friday, and said the warrant was an attempt to divert attention.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu on Sunday also said he was concerned that once-bipartisan political support for Israel in the US is at<\/a> risk<\/a>, particularly as progressive and far-left Democrats aligned with<\/a> the Mamdani wing of the party splinter.<\/p>\n

He also warned against rising antisemitism in the US and other western countries, saying that when he talks to people in New York<\/a> City, home to the second-largest Jewish population in the world, \u201cJews feel very uncomfortable\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think it\u2019s wrong,\u201d he said. \u201cThe whole thing is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout his 2025 mayoral election campaign, Mamdani said<\/a> he would seek to order the city\u2019s police to execute the ICC\u2019s arrest warrant over Netanyahu\u2019s role in the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be equally clear, Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large,\u201d he said<\/a> in his video message on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

He told New Yorkers that he understood their frustration and that expressions of protest is something the city would \u201calways respect\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Hague-based court has accused Netanyahu, his former defense minister and the late leader of Hamas of crimes against humanity. The Palestinian territory\u2019s health ministry says more than 73,000 people have been killed in Israel\u2019s offensive \u2013 roughly half of them women and children. About 1,200 people, most of them civilians, were killed in the initial Hamas attack on Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump on Monday told<\/a> Netanyahu in a social media post that he \u201cwill not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America\u201d.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu is expected in Washington DC on Monday to meet with Trump and attend funeral services for Lindsey Graham<\/a>, the late Republican senator.<\/p>\n

Graham, a leading defense hawk and strong supporter of Israel, died suddenly<\/a> on 11 July of a likely torn aorta. Netanyahu called<\/a> him a \u201cgreat patriot\u201d and one of Israel\u2019s \u201cgreatest friends\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, is \u201cfomenting hate\u201d by calling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-560949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}