{"id":312078,"date":"2026-08-02T20:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312078\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T20:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:35:15","slug":"consul-general-of-israel-in-new-york-calls-on-mayor-zohran-mamdani-to-change-rhetoric-before-netanyahus-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312078\/","title":{"rendered":"Consul General of Israel in New York calls on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to change rhetoric before Netanyahu&#8217;s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Consul General of Israel in New York is calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to change <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/upper-west-side-stabbing-possible-hate-crime-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his anti-Israel rhetoric<\/a> before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the city in September for the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/full-interview-with-ofir-akunis-consul-general-of-israel-in-new-york-the-point-8-2-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an interview<\/a> on &#8220;The Point with Marcia Kramer,&#8221; Ofir Akunis discussed the mayor&#8217;s position on Israel and antisemitism in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He must be the mayor of all New Yorkers. He&#8217;s not doing it,&#8221; Akunis said. &#8220;Instead of lowering the flames, he&#8217;s doing the opposite. And I think that he must stop talk against Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During his campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mamdani vowed<\/a> to arrest Netanyahu if he visited the city, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mamdani-will-not-arrest-israel-netanyahu-nyc-legal-authority-nypd-un\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he conceded<\/a> last month that the city does not have the authority to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Akunis called the mayor&#8217;s threat &#8220;nonsense,&#8221; and said Mamdani needs to change his rhetoric before September to prevent any potential violence between protesters and supporters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/consul-general-of-israel-in-new-york-on-mayor-mamdani-the-point-full-episode-8-2-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here to watch the full episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Consul General of Israel in New York is calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to change his anti-Israel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3895,60,9,11,10,82],"class_list":["post-312078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-israel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312078","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=312078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}