Netanyahu vows to attend UN as Mamdani says he’s ‘not welcome’

NEW YORK : Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he plans to travel to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly, regardless of a clash with mayor Zohran Mamdani over the International Criminal Court’s warrant for the Israeli leader’s arrest. “I intend to come and speak the truth, speak for Israel and for the Israeli-American alliance from the podium of the United Nations,” Netanyahu said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures.

Mamdani last week backed off a pledge to enforce the warrant, conceding that he lacks legal authority. In the same video, he called Netanyahu a war criminal who’s responsible for “a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people” and “is not welcome in New York City.”

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