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Written Transcript:
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people. He is responsible for the killing of more than 73,000 people. For the maiming of tens of thousands of children, as those who survive undergo amputation without anesthesia. For the targeting of neonatal hospitals and maternity care centers, denying newborns even the chance to live. For the countless people he starved as he blocked food and humanitarian aid from reaching them. For the gunning down of hundreds of aid workers and journalists.
And just last month, the UN confirmed that Palestinian children continue to be deliberately targeted and killed by Israeli armed forces, more than eight months after the so-called ceasefire. The list goes on and on. All as we, as Americans, pay for the bombs that do the killing. There is a reason the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest. As human beings, we have spent generations building a shared understanding that there are crimes so grave they offend all of humanity. Anyone, with their eyes, with their heart, with their conscience, should recognize the devastation he has wrought and understand that he belongs before a court of law.
As I've said, I agree with the ICC that Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested and tried for his crimes, as I do for anyone else charged by the ICC. My administration has reviewed every avenue available, under applicable law, to determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here. It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant. The federal government, however, does. And I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant. And I want to be equally clear: Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York. While we cannot end the genocide on our own, we can decide whether our silence will become another weapon, and we can examine every tool we have to defend the humanity and dignity of all people. That is my commitment to you.
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9 Comments
He didn’t take a salary bump but he should definitely consider beefed up security because he’s absolutely right and sadly being right about this in this day and age means you get a target painted on your back. Wishing for peace to prevail somehow (even if it is a fool’s wish).
I’m not even American but that is my mayor
He is so eloquent. You can tell he feels passionately about what he is saying but he never exaggerates or uses hyperbole. He states facts and remains poised. Imagine if our other politicians had half his tact.
And deranged people on Twitter call him an ardent Zionist for not vowing to personally arrest Satanyahu… I really appreciate this community for providing me with nuance and sanity
I worry a lot about his safety.
We need more people in politics like him, talking in facts instead of in circles.
This is so refreshing after hearing so many politicians from so many countries calling Netanhyahu all the names except the one that matters. He’s not just corrupt, not just arrogant, not just a right winger: he’s a war criminal. Those words mean something, they’re very specifically defined in the Rome statute, and I’m so happy to see Mamdani having the courage to use them. Netanyahu is a form of evil you fortunately rarely see and I’m so done with politicians (from around the world, not just America) ignoring it
My Mayor Mamdani (I live in India)
That’s my mayor 💚