{"id":302634,"date":"2026-07-22T07:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302634\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:17:13","slug":"new-york-mayor-mamdani-admits-he-cant-arrest-war-criminal-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302634\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mayor Mamdani Admits He Can\u2019t Arrest \u2018War Criminal\u2019 Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Speaking to journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7304339\/jubilee-media-surrounded-viral-debate-show-criticisms-mehdi-hasan-fascist\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mehdi Hasan<\/a> in late 2024, weeks after he announced his campaign for city mayor, Mamdani <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GT96jhaHdIA?t=785\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> that the Israeli Prime Minister was not welcome in New York City, and that the city would arrest him because its \u201cvalues are in line with international law.\u201d In October 2025, Mamdani <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@foxnews\/video\/7561532910310903071\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Fox News<\/a> that he would \u201cexhaust every legal option\u201d available to him but that he would not make any new laws to facilitate the Israeli leader\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Netanyahu, however, remains a <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7297951\/trump-netanyahu-friend-relationship-israel-prime-minister-corruption-trial-politics\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">close ally of U.S. President Trump<\/a> despite <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/06\/16\/trump-netanyahu-israel-warning-hezbollah-us-iran-peace-deal\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recent disagreements over ongoing conflict in the Middle East<\/a>. On Monday, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116953334292806992\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">weighed in<\/a> on his social media platform Truth Social: \u201cBenjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America. He is fighting against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which recently killed 52,000 innocent protestors, and has spent the last 47 years killing American Soldiers, and others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to journalist Mehdi Hasan in late 2024, weeks after he announced his campaign for city mayor, Mamdani&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3895,153,60,9,11,10,49,51,50,5296,18208],"class_list":["post-302634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-israel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news-desk","tag-overnight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}