A trolling Brooklyn pol has invited Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to the town Jan. 1 — the day of the swearing-in of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who has vowed to attempt to arrest Bibi when he visits subsequent.
Metropolis Councilwoman and fierce Zionist Inna Vernikov mentioned she issued a proper invitation to the prime minister to come back to the Large Apple in January to “reaffirm the deep and enduring bond” between the town, US and the Jewish state.
“Regardless of the vile rhetoric of unashamed Marxist radicals like Mayor-elect Mamdani, your go to would function a strong reminder that this metropolis stands with Israel, the Jewish folks, and with the ideas that unite our two nice nations,” she wrote to Netanyahu.
Mamdani, a socialist Muslim immigrant, vowed throughout his marketing campaign to make use of the NYPD to arrest Netanyahu if he units foot within the metropolis once more, citing the Worldwide Felony Court docket’s 2024 arrest warrant for the chief’s alleged battle crimes in Gaza, which the US doesn’t acknowledge.
The Republican firebrand Vernikov chided the “irresponsible and albeit absurd statements” made by Mamdani, who has dogged relentless accusations of antisemitism.
She wrote to Netanyahu, “Whether or not people agree or disagree together with your insurance policies, you’re the duly elected Prime Minister of the State of Israel: a democratic nation that stands as a beacon of hope, freedom, western values, resilience, and energy in a area surrounded by tyranny and terror.”
In late 2024, the ICC issued arrest warrants to Netanhayu and former Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant, alleging that there have been “cheap grounds” to imagine the 2 males “deliberately and knowingly disadvantaged the civilian inhabitants in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival.”
However neither the US nor Israel acknowledge the ICC, having opted to not ratify the 1998 Rome Statute that created the tribunal.
Mamdani nonetheless has doubled down on his vow in December 2024 to arrest the Israeli PM in current interviews.
“That is one thing that I intend to satisfy,” Mamdani informed the New York Occasions in September. “It is a second the place we can not look to the federal authorities for management. It is a second when cities and states must show what it truly appears like to face up for our personal values, our personal folks.”
He reiterated his controversial pledge in October, telling the outlet, “It can be crucial that New York Metropolis is in compliance with worldwide felony regulation.”
However former Democratic state assemblyman Dov Hikind informed The Submit on Tuesday that Mamdani “goes to search out out that he’s not the king.
“Bibi will get the most important constructive reception that he’s ever gotten in New York – individuals who have by no means come out” — the following time he visits, Hikind mentioned.
Mamdani’s reps didn’t reply to a Submit request for remark.
