Mamdani's Threat To Netanyahu May Have Failed But His Demagoguery Will Have Ugly Consequences

Zoryan Mamdani knew he had no legal basis whatsoever to try to arrest Israel's Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu when he visits New York in September for the annual convening of the United Nations General Assembly.

But the Big Apple's neo-communist mayor couldn't resist threatening to jail the leader of the Jewish state.

He calculated that this political theater would be a publicity-rich way to wow his anti-Semitic supporters and raise his profile among the Democrat Party's extremist militants around the country.

Radical activists like Mamdani are setting the Democrat Party agenda these days.

The move was typical of that political ilk.

They thrive by stirring up resentments and hatreds by resorting to false inflammatory accusations.

They abuse the language.

Israel guilty of genocide against the Palestinians? It's the first time in history that the population of the supposed victims of an ongoing genocide are actually increasing in population.

The far left's toxic politics stokes violence.

Recall Mamdani's attack video in front of billionaire Ken Griffin's apartment to push a new tax on second homes.

Griffin, who has a big real estate footprint in New York City, as well as a multi-billion dollar pending project, didn't take kindly to being vilified and put in personal danger.

The mayor's threat to arrest Netanyahu quickly generated serious blowback.

Observers quickly pointed out that a New York City mayor has no authority to tell the city police and the district attorney to arrest or indict an individual.

The federal government conducts US foreign policy, not local officials.

The arrest warrant for Netanyahu that Mamdani said he was going to enforce was issued by an entity that has no jurisdiction whatsoever in the US.

America has never been a member of that rogue and discredited International Criminal Court, the ICC.

In fact, years ago, the US enacted a law authorizing the use of military force by the president to rescue Americans who got ensnared by the ICC.

Our UN Ambassador Mike Waltz rightly labeled the move as pure political theater.

Senator John Fetterman, Democrat from Pennsylvania, called Mamdani a total clown.

"You're out of your league." Mamdani would have kept up his show but for the fact that his particular threats here may have been in violation of US law.

But the move fed his lust for attention.

Mamdani's whipping up violence-inducing emotions, in this case firing up anti-Semitism and scapegoating individuals, has disturbing precedents.

Back in 1957, the governor of Arkansas, defying a court order, used force to block Black students from attending a previously all-white high school.

President Dwight Eisenhower sent in federal troops to enforce the order.

The governor's open defiance, it got him reelected, was imitated in Mississippi by the governor there in the early 1960s in the face of a court order to allow a Black student to attend the University of Mississippi.