{"id":951228,"date":"2026-07-22T05:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/951228\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:37:11","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-admists-he-has-no-authority-to-arrest-pm-benjamin-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/951228\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani admists he has no authority to arrest PM Benjamin Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-902872\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> admitted that his administration does not have the authority to execute the International Criminal Court\u2019s (ICC) arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video statement released by the mayor\u2019s office on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, titled \u201cBenjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal,\u201d Mamdani reiterated accusations that Netanyahu was responsible for an alleged \u201cgenocide against the Palestinian people\u201d and the blocking of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-902024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">humanitarian aid to Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cHe is responsible for the killing of more than 73,000 people. For the maiming of tens of thousands of children,\u201d Mamdani claimed.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that Netanyahu was responsible for violations of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, neglecting to mention the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-902381\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palestinian terrorist organization<\/a>\u2019s ceasefire breaches of the October 7 massacre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cAnyone, with their eyes, with their heart, with their conscience, should recognize the devastation he has wrought and understand that he belongs before a court of law,\u201d he continued, attributing the issuing of the ICC warrant to the alleged human rights violations he accused Netanyahu of perpetuating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Mamdani, who previously expressed intent to arrest Netanyahu if his administration had the authority to do so, stated that he has \u201creviewed every avenue available\u201d to determine whether the city could execute the warrant if Netanyahu were to visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cIt is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Mamdani proceeded to urge the US to join the ICC and execute the warrant, recognizing that only the federal government would have the power to arrest Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Still, he asserted that Netanyahu \u201cis not welcome in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-903105\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Monday asserted that Netanyahu \u201cwill not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani admitted that his administration does not have the authority to execute the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":951229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[12424,372,95985,89268,99,403,50,67,5301],"class_list":["post-951228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-arrest","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-icc","tag-international-criminal-court","tag-israel","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116962017162137365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}