Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a message for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani: He’s coming anyway.
“I’m going to New York,” Netanyahu told Sean Hannity after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House Tuesday.
Netanyahu plans to address the United Nations General Assembly in September, despite Mamdani’s campaign to have him arrested under an International Criminal Court warrant.
“I’m going to speak the truth in front of this hate-spewing elected official who’s pitting one group of New Yorkers against the others,” Netanyahu said. “He’s turning them against New York Jews.”
The U.N. General Assembly’s annual debate is scheduled to begin Sept. 22.
Mamdani has called Netanyahu a “war criminal” and “the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people” over Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
Netanyahu accused the democratic socialist mayor of whipping up hostility against Jewish New Yorkers.
“What are we in the 1930s?” Netanyahu asked. “What is this? So much hate, so many lies.”
He also blasted the ICC as a “corrupt, evil organization” and warned its unelected officials could eventually turn their sights on Trump or American troops.
“They could say that the president of the United States is a war criminal, that American soldiers, valiantly fighting next to us, shoulder to shoulder, against the tyranny in Tehran, that they’re war criminals,” Netanyahu said.
The Israeli leader described his White House meeting as “one of the best meetings” he has had with Trump.
“I always hate to disappoint our would-be critics who are trying to find cracks in our alliance,” Netanyahu said. “And what they find, like today, is a wall of granite.”
Trump and Netanyahu remain united on preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, even as Trump has publicly criticized some recent Israeli military actions. The White House described Tuesday’s meeting as positive and productive, according to the Associated Press.
Netanyahu and Hannity also discussed late Senator Lindsey Graham and more.
Watch Bibi’s appearance above.
