Mamdani has ‘no jurisdiction’ to arrest Netanyahu: Israeli ambassador

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has “no jurisdiction” to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his planned visit to New York in September, dismissing the mayor’s threat as “a stunt.”

In an interview with The New York Times, Mamdani said his administration is in “an active conversation” with the city’s legal department about whether there is legal authority to arrest Netanyahu if he attends the U.N. General Assembly in September, describing the Israeli leader as a “war criminal.”

“We all know it’s a stunt, you know, and no basis to these remarks of the mayor,” Danon said in a Monday interview with NewsNation. “He wants to distract the conversation from his failures in running the city and putting the blame on Israel.”

Danon argued Mamdani lacks the authority to carry out such an arrest, noting that the U.S. is not a party to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which issued an arrest warrant for........

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