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Netanyahu Accuses Mamdani of ‘Hate Speech’ After Mayor’s Video Address
The New York Times • • general
Key Points:
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of “fomenting hate” after Mamdani called for Netanyahu’s arrest and labeled him a “war criminal” in a video addressing the Gaza conflict.
- Netanyahu criticized Mamdani’s video, which urged the U.S. to enforce an International Criminal Court warrant against him, calling the speech divisive and hateful.
- Netanyahu suggested a connection between Mamdani’s video and a recent stabbing attack on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where a Jewish man and an Asian man were stabbed by an assailant who reportedly shouted “Allahu akbar.”
- Police arrested Raul Morales and charged him with two counts of attempted murder as a hate crime in the stabbing incidents, which occurred shortly after Mamdani’s video was released.
