NYC Mayor Mamdani Won't Join Netanyahu Protests After Backing ICC Arrest Review in July
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 17
NYC Mayor Mamdani Won't Join Netanyahu Protests After Backing ICC Arrest Review in July
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 17
Summary
Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday he has no plans to attend protests during Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming New York visit for the UN General Assembly and denied ever urging New Yorkers to demonstrate.
The mayor drew a distinction between endorsing protests and defending protest rights, saying he has only said New Yorkers are free to protest under the First Amendment.
That clarification follows Mamdani’s July remarks that his administration was reviewing whether the city could act on an International Criminal Court warrant against Netanyahu, though he later said City Hall lacks arrest authority.
The dispute has sharpened ahead of Netanyahu’s trip to Washington to meet President Donald Trump and then to New York, where Mamdani has already criticized Israel’s Gaza conduct and skipped the city’s Israel Day Parade.