Mamdani has called Netanyahu a "war criminal" and an “architect of genocide," and urged New Yorkers to protest his visit for a UN summit.

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot described NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s statement as dangerous, inflammatory, and “pure antisemitism, with no basis in fact.”

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