Mamdani Refuses to Tell Hamas to Disarm, Will Arrest Netanyahu
“I don’t have the opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel beyond the question of justice and safety…”
I give socialist Zohran Mamdani credit for going on Fox News for a sit-down interview with Martha MacCallum.
But that’s where it ends.
Mamdani has an anti-Israel past, and he didn’t help himself with MacCallum.
MacCallum gave him numerous times to come out against Hamas, and he refused. He also said he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he set foot in New York City due to the international arrest warrant.
I’m glad NewsBusters’ Curtis Houck transcribed it so I don’t have to:
Martha MacCallum: “So, you have denounced Israel and the United States for the response to the slaughter on October the 7th. In fact, at times you’ve called it a lasting stain. The response. At times, you have left October 7 out of your statements completely around this issue. Right now, you just talked about Israelis killing Palestinians but Hamas is killing Palestinians within Haza. And they have not returned the bodies that they promised to return including two Americans, Itay Chen and Omer Neutra whose families that we have interviewed over these months. So, what is your response to what Hamas is doing now?”
Zohran Mamdani: “I think those are bodies and remains that should absolutely be returned and I think that I have no issue with critiquing Hamas or the Israeli government because my critiques all come from a place of universal human rights. My focus however is right here in New York City and transforming the most expensive city in America into one that is affordable for each and every New Yorker.”
MacCallum: “Okay, I want to get to that absolutely, but do you believe that Hamas should lay down their weapons and leave the leadership in Gaza?”
Mamdani: “I believe any future here New York City is one that we have to make sure is affordable for all and, as it pertains to Israel and Palestine, that we have to ensure that there is peace and that is the future we have to fight for.”
MacCallum: “But you won’t say that Hamas should lay down their arms and give up leadership in Gaza?”
Mamdani: “I don’t have the opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel beyond the question of justice and safety and the fact that anything has to abide by international law and that applies to Hamas, that applies to the Israeli military, plus to anyone you could ask me about.”
MacCallum: “Okay. One last thought on that. You would said that you would arrest Netanyahu if he came to the United States. You’ve been very outspoken in your criticism of him. Do you stand by that? You would arrest him if he came here if he were mayor?”
Mamdani: “I’ve said that this is a city that believes in international law and this is a city that wants to uplift and uphold those beliefs. The Prime Minister —”
MacCallum: “The United States doesn’t stand by the International Criminal Court.”
Mamdani: “— it hasn’t signed the treaty for the International Criminal Court. The International Criminal Court, however, it has issued a warrant for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu as it has —”
MacCallum: “Well, what grounds in the United States could you arrest him on?”
Mamdani: “— as it has for Vladimir Putin Putin. I have said that I believe we should uphold arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court and that we should do so only in abiding with all of the laws in front of us. I’m not going to make a new law to ensure that we can actually do this.”
MacCallum: “Would Commissioner Tish allow you to arrest Netanyahu in New York City?”
Mamdani: “I have appreciated Commissioner Tisch’s leadership of the NYPD and I think she has done a good job of lowering crime across the city.”
MacCallum: “But if she — do you think she would — she would be — go along with the arresting of Netanyahu in New York?”
Mamdani: “I can tell you that I’m going to exhaust every legal operation in front of me, not to make new laws to do so.”
WATCH: Zohran Mamdani REFUSES to voice support for the need of Hamas to disarm in Gaza and doubles down on his desire to have Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if he ever visits New York City for the United Nations…@MarthaMacCallum: “So, you have denounced Israel and the United… pic.twitter.com/F8Ytl8sAVj
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 15, 2025
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So no new information.
Last time I checked, the US does not recognize international arrest warrants for it’s citizens and allies. That would likely mean that Netanyahu would fall under diplomatic immunity while visiting the US if Trump says so (which he likely would).
Or for anyone else. The only warrants that can be enforced in the USA are those issued by the USA or by the local state or municipality. Foreign entities must request extradition, and if the USA agrees it issues a warrant and the US Marshals enforce it.
New York City has the highest concentration of Orthodox jews of anywhere outside of Isreal. How is it that New York is poised to elect an anti-semite?
People are stupid?
Because they’re not anywhere near a majority.
When they tell you who they are, believe them!
I imagine that there are many corporations and high wealth individuals who are already planning an exit. Some may go between election night and inauguration, but they will leave before he tries to hold their assets hostage to the new “regime”
What an a**tard.
And so is everyone voting for him especially any Jews who vote for him.
Justice? What a disgusting fu*king c*nt. I’d love to beat the living sh*t out of this @sshole.
The tough guy will have to arrest Netanyahu himself. I suspect most self-respecting members of the NYPD would tell him where to stuff his illegal order.
And good luck to him. Netanyahu was a commando and I’ve the Marxist punk try to lift weights. He’s Obama class at best.
This antisemite would not know what universal human rights are if it hit him in his new face of authoritarianism. He’s a slimy one for sure.
So Mamdani wants to violate diplomatic immunity? Seems like that’d establish a federal-city conflict. Worse, if local police tried to arrest Netanyahu etc, and the Trump administration provided FBI etc protection, you could have local police and federal agents in direct conflict.
Could Mamdani trigger a civil war?
No, he said explicitly that he would abide by “all of the laws in front of us”, and acknowledged that that meant he would not be able to enforce this so-called “warrant”.
He did not specify American civil/criminal law. He could easily be referring to Sharia. The devil is in the details.
Don’t be ridiculous. You know very well what he said and what he meant.
He stuck to his talking points. That was very disciplined and very stupid of him.
Discipline and stupidity are the earmarks, I mean hallmarks of leftists.
The return of Tammamdani Hall!
Mamdani understands that his more-antisemitic-than-thou attitude is not costing him support, so why not double down? Party like it’s 1933 in Germany all over again!
Well, there was that FascistNaziEvilOrangeGuy rally at MSG last year with the silly Puerto Rico joke that was absolutely going to sink trump’s campaign. Except this socialist swine actually hates the Jews.
New York City deserves him. Yankees suck, Mets suck, Giants, Jets, Rangers, Knicks, and whatever their ladies’ hoops squad is called all suck. It would be a great town if it wasn’t filled with New Yorkers.
I wanted to swipe that smirk off his face
A Muslim mayor in NYC…
After 9/11.. dear God
Hw wants to disarm Americans, not terrorists
In his world view Americans are terrorists. He has had a nice soft life thanks to the US but he doesn’t have any gratitude. His fantasies about a perfect world have made him unable to see the world.
Of course. He hates Americans. He doesn’t hate terrorists
No, he didn’t. Read the excerpt that you yourself provided. He said repeatedly that he would not make new laws that would allow him to have the so-called “warrant” enforced. Which is good of him to acknowledge, because of course he can’t make such laws. So he’s saying that he won’t do something he can’t do anyway.
But he still says he would enforce the “warrant” if he could, which he knows he can’t. So he’s virtue signalling.
OK. So please tell us what part of “international law” gives this so-called “court” authority in the USA, or in Israel.
This clown doesn’t even know what “international law” is. He thinks it’s like US law, passed by some sort of international legislature and enforced by some sort of international government. Neither of which exists.
The “warrant” has no more authority than something your kid brings home from kindergarten to pin on the fridge.
One more point: Mayors, of course, can’t make laws. So saying he’s not going to is meaningless.
But perhaps he means that he won’t try to persuade the city council to make new laws. Mayor certainly can do that. But there is no law the NYC council could possibly make, that would allow a so-called “warrant” from this so-called “court” to be enforced. Even if every council member agreed with him and wanted to enforce the “warrant”, there is simply nothing it could do that would enable this. So saying it won’t do that (assuming this is what he meant) is also meaningless.
The bottom line is that he knows he can’t order NYPD to enforce the “warrant”, and that it would rightly disobey any such order, so he’s just virtue signaling.
He’s “signaling” all right but I wouldn’t call it “virtue” signaling. More like a dog whistle if you follow my drift.
On the other hand there’s plenty of recent evidence that Mayors will issue ’emergency orders’ to bypass the legislative process and the Constitution. See Covid.
“Emergency orders” can only ever exist pursuant to a statute authorizing them. As we saw, some states and cities had very loose emergency laws. Many have since corrected them.
I’d argue that emergency orders or any other sort of extra constitutional order can only be sustained when the rank and file armed agents of the gov’t are willing to enforce them.
During Covid we.saw that most armed agents of the gov’t were quite willing to follow all sorts of unconstitutional directives; shutting down businesses, arresting parishioners, enforcing all sorts of odious, tyrannical nonsense. Like it or not Mao was correct ‘power flows from the barrel of a gun’ and not from dry parchment or idealism.
So this walking pile of excrement looks to thwart ICE enforcement of actual laws against illegal immigration, while at the same time looking to enforce a “warrant” from a collection of foreign busybodies the US doesn’t even recognize? And how would this hot air blaster actually carry out his threat? Does he plan an armed standoff between the NYPD, and Netanyahu’s security (backed up by Secret Service)? This stinking little Muslim is far too clownish to be Mayor of NYC, which is sadly why Democrat loons will elect him.
He said he won’t do any of that. He acknowledged that if elected he will have no power outside the existing law, and will have to operate within it. He said he doesn’t like it, but he’ll have no choice.
Good luck with this lunatic, New York. You want him, you got him. Just don’t ask me to pay for the bail out. That’s on you. Some of these enlightened liberals need to look at NYC in the 60s and 70s to see how bad it was. But they won’t.
Calling Snake Plisken.
police and military will back him up and then its business as usual
same way they wont prosecute blmplo for their violent behaviors but will go after daniel penny etc
if djt hadnt won in 2024…penny would be in the gulag
Such an utterly vile, stupid, contemptible and evil piece of Muslim supremacist/Islamofascist excrement. An entitled, coddled, lazy, private sector-avoiding, self-serving, empty suit hustler-demagogue, in the vein of vile, narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama.