"Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the place he belongs is locked up with the ICC and there's a criminal warrant out for it, and I don't want my tax dollars going to defend someone like that."

Netanyahu plans to attend the U.N. General Assembly in September despite Mamdani's call for his arrest under an ICC war-crimes warrant.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the White House on Monday to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington ahead of his scheduled meeting…