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During his campaign to become mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani famously vowed that he\u2019d arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the next time he visited the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This week, Netanyahu essentially called his bluff. He\u2019s expected to address the United Nations in September. And after a whole lot of hemming, and hawing, and hedging, Mamdani admitted in a video Tuesday night that he does not actually have the legal authority to arrest a foreign dignitary on US soil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The retreat is not surprising to legal experts, who had long questioned how Mamdani would pull this particular promise off. In November 2024, the International Criminal Court \u2014 a tribunal recognized by 125 countries, not including Israel, China, Russia, or the US \u2014 did issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu on charges of starvation, murder, persecution, and intentionally directing attacks against civilians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the US does not recognize the ICC\u2019s jurisdiction. And even if it did, the job of executing its warrants would presumably not <\/em>fall to New York City cops. So, why did Mamdani suggest he\u2019d arrest Netanyahu when he actually knew he could not?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The end of the pro-Israel consensus<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mamdani\u2019s allies argue that the principle here mattered, that the mayor needed to issue some kind of denunciation, even if he couldn\u2019t act. But there\u2019s another, more cynical read here, too: For Democrats, critiquing Israel is good politics.<\/p>\n

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This is a seismic, generational shift, with far-ranging implications for both Democrats and US foreign policy. The party\u2019s left flank has criticized Israel for years, but older and more moderate Dems only soured on Israel recently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cA few months after October 7, younger and progressive Democrats overwhelmingly took the opinion that Israel was committing a genocide,\u201d said Hamid Bendaas, of the Institute for Middle East Understanding, a pro-Palestinian advocacy group. \u201cBut there were still elements of the Democratic Party \u2014 people watching MSNBC or NPR \u2014 that weren\u2019t convinced.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For many of these voters, the turning point only came after President Donald Trump took office again. Severe famine swept across Gaza last summer \u2014 the consequence of ongoing conflict and Israeli restrictions on food and aid shipments. Netanyahu also allied himself closely with Trump, particularly around the war in Iran. Support for Israel has consequently grown more GOP-coded, rather like Kid Rock or Bass Pro hats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Now, even Democrats far to the right of Mamdani are looking to retool the US-Israeli relationship. Listen to Tuesday\u2019s Today, Explained<\/em> podcast episode for even more about the shift (!).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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