Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is \u201cfomenting hate\u201d by calling the prime minister a war criminal who should be arrested over the 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 in September to address the annual UN gathering of world leaders, despite the mayor\u2019s suggestion that he is not welcome.<\/p>\n
Mamdani said last week that while New York City does not have legal authority to execute an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court \u2013 the world\u2019s top war-crimes court \u2013 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 on Fox News Channel\u2019s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he\u2019s trying to turn one group against the other.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prime minister has become an increasingly polarising figure over Israel\u2019s war in Gaza, which was ignited by the October 7, 2023, deadly attack on southern Israel by Hamas militants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is \u201cfomenting hate\u201d by calling the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2132,85979,155,59,27306,4096,14670,60,115942,9,24,55,54,56,1069,3424,901,82],"class_list":["post-306279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-democrats","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-international-criminal-court","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-maria-bartiromo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-trump","tag-united-nations-general-assembly","tag-united-states","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306279","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=306279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}