Zohran Mamdani says he would seek Netanyahu's arrest in New York

Jul 21, 2026

Mamdani is doubling down on his call to enforce the ICC warrant against Netanyahu if the Israeli leader visits New York in September, and both parties are lining up against him.

  • Netanyahu is due at the UN General Assembly in New York while under a 2024 ICC warrant for alleged war crimes in Gaza.
  • Mamdani says he would explore having the NYPD act on that warrant; legal experts, Governor Hochul, and Trump all say he cannot.
  • Democrats are attacking him too — Senator Fetterman called the ICC a "corrupt court" on Fox News.
  • Netanyahu's office fired back, calling the ICC a kangaroo court and accusing Mamdani of distracting from failed New York policies he has not been in office long enough to have.
  • Gas prices are creeping back up as Trump keeps acting in the Middle East, a political risk Republicans usually take seriously.

Outlook: Netanyahu will almost certainly visit New York unarrested in September, but the fight over the ICC will keep splitting the Democratic Party.

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