Opinion: Mamdani’s call to arrest Israel’s prime minister highlighted a growing divide between political rhetoric and actual authority, raising broader concerns among Jews about the normalization of anti-Israel narratives in American politics and public institutions

Mamdani is considering arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the United Nations General Assembly.

Mamdani is known as a harsh critic of Israel and has alleged that it is committing genocide in Gaza.

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that Mamdani "remains relentlessly obsessed with the world’s only Jewish state."