{"id":84706,"date":"2026-07-22T08:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84706"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:09:13","slug":"mamdani-calls-netanyahu-a-war-criminal-and-calls-on-u-s-to-arrest-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/mamdani-calls-netanyahu-a-war-criminal-and-calls-on-u-s-to-arrest-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Calls Netanyahu A \u2018War Criminal\u2019 And Calls On U.S. To Arrest Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-aa8b97-Paragraph-baseStyles-paragraphTreatmentStyles-print evys1bk0\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday night challenged the federal government to execute an international arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, calling him a \u201cwar criminal\u201d and \u201cthe architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people\u201d in a striking video statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-aa8b97-Paragraph-baseStyles-paragraphTreatmentStyles-print evys1bk0\">The mayor said the city Law Department explored whether the New York Police Department could arrest the Israeli prime minister during his expected visit to the city in September but that the city did not have \u201cindependent legal authority\u201d to do so.\u00a0The mayor\u2019s announcement came days after he\u00a0<a class=\"css-bhdv0x-linkClass\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/18\/magazine\/zohran-mamdani-interview.html\">told Lulu Garcia-Navarro last week on \u201cThe Interview,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0a New York Times show, that he had been in \u201cactive conversation\u201d with the city\u2019s lawyers about executing a warrant\u00a0<a class=\"css-bhdv0x-linkClass\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/21\/world\/middleeast\/icc-netanyahu-israel-gaza-war.html\">issued for Mr. Netanyahu in 2024<\/a>\u00a0by the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday night challenged the federal government to execute an international arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84707,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84706\/revisions\/84707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}