If Mamdani Arrests Netanyahu, Should Feds Arrest Mamdani?

Here is the headline from Fox News that is focused on one Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani is currently leading in the race to be New York City’s next mayor. The headline: “Mamdani stands by promise to arrest Netanyahu if he comes to New York City.”

The New York Times headlined: “Mamdani, if Elected Mayor, Pledges to Order N.Y.P.D. to Arrest Netanyahu,” with the subtitle, “Zohran Mamdani expanded on his vow to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it would show that New York ‘stands up for international law.’”

Well now.

If a New York City mayor, Mamdani, does in fact do this, would it not be time for the United States government to arrest Mamdani?

After all, no one is above the law. And there is nothing in the law that gives an American mayor the authority to arrest a foreign head of state for simply doing his duty as head of state. Which, in this case, and like his head-of-state peers from around the world, means showing up in New York City to address the opening session of the United Nations. If Mr. Mamdani doesn’t like it, perhaps it’s time for the U.N. to consider moving itself to a more welcoming American or foreign city. (RELATED: Zohran Has Two Daddies)

The Times story reports:

Mr. Mamdani had said earlier in the mayor’s race that he would arrest Mr. Netanyahu. In the interview on Thursday, he did not back down and offered new specifics, affirming that he would order the police to make the arrest upon Mr. Netanyahu’s arrival in the city.

“This is something that I intend to fulfill,” Mr. Mamdani said.

“This is a moment where we cannot look to the federal government for leadership,” Mr. Mamdani said. “This is a moment when cities and states will have to demonstrate what it actually looks like to stand up for our own values, our own people.”

So let’s take Mr. Mamdani at his word.

It’s time to “look to the federal government for leadership.” Which, based on the logic of the would-be Mayor Mamdani’s position means that the federal government, which is decidedly charged with arresting Americans who break federal law, should swoop down on the New York Mayor’s Gracie Mansion residence or City Hall (if he is elected!), slap the cuffs on him and send him to the New York hell hole known as the Rikers Island prison.

Once there, the arrested Mayor Mamdani would find himself in the company of inmates who specialize in violence of all manner of types. The very same types he is threatening to surround an arrested Prime Minister Netanyahu with. Not to mention the type of violence Mr. Netanyahu’s Israeli constituents have to deal with routinely from Palestinian extremists.

To say the least, at a minimum, this threat reveals the would-be mayor of New York City, Mamdani, as a decided antisemite.

New York City, the home of the United Nations, has over the decades routinely played host to all manner of international thugs and criminal heads of state. With Mamdani completely silent on their presence. Only the Prime Minister of the world’s lone Jewish state — a country that elects its leaders in decidedly democratic fashion — gets threatened by Mamdani. What a coincidence!

And oh yes, one other thing. Mamdani says: “This is a moment when cities and states will have to demonstrate what it actually looks like to stand up for our own values, our own people.”

Indeed, this is just such a moment.

If Mr. Mamdani — who aspires to hold the office of mayor of New York City that was once filled by distinguished Jewish New Yorkers with names like Ed Koch and Michael Bloomberg — cannot “demonstrate what it actually looks like to stand up for our own values, our own people,” then most assuredly, he does not deserve to be mayor.

And one can hope New York City voters — who have a seriously good, non-bigoted alternative choice in former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — will make that emphatically clear on election day.

Stay tuned.

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