New York Mayor Mamdani only Democratic leader in line with majority of Democrats calling for arrest of Netanyahu for war crimes

New York Mayor Mamdani only Democratic leader in line with majority of Democrats calling for arrest of Netanyahu for war crimes

There are well over a thousand, likely several thousand elected Democratic office holders at the local, state and federal level. Yet, the only one I’m aware of that called for Israeli Prime Minister and indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for those war crimes in Gaza was New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.


Netanyahu came to Washington D.C. this week to attend the funeral of the Senate’s most virulent warmonger Lindsey Graham who died July 11 after visiting Ukraine in support of America’s proxy war to weaken Russia. Netanyahu was paying his respects to Graham, an ardent supporter of Netanyahu’s grisly genocide in Gaza that has virtually leveled Gaza’s 139 square miles, killed upwards of 100,000 Palestinians and made life unbearable for the remaining 2,200,000 with little left to survive. Graham thrilled Netanyahu when he proclaimed Israel should “flatten Gaza just like America flattened Berlin and Tokyo.”


While in D.C. Netanyahu met with unindicted fellow war criminal, President Trump who responded to Mamdani’s principled charge stating, “Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America.”


Mamdani sure is an outlier within the Democratic Party. A recent Economist/YouGov poll cited by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz found three quarters of Kamala Harris’ voters wanted Netanyahu arrested when he stepped onto the tarmac at D.C. Even a quarter of Trump voters approved of Netanyahu being handed over to the International Criminal Court instead of being allowed to praise the Senate’s most supreme warmonger before chatting with fellow war criminal Trump in the Oval Office.


Harris lost over 6 million Biden voters last election in the process of losing every swing state in allowing Trump to return to power to launch the most destructive criminal war in America’s 250 years. Polling revealed the biggest reason was Harris refusing to break with Biden over his support and enabling of Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza still going on in slow motion under Trump.


Inviting an indicted war criminal to D.C. to praise a supporter of that war criminal’s genocide in Gaza is a dastardly stain on America. While it was the Republican war criminal president who invited him, that does not absolve the entire Democratic Congress from complicity in allowing him to defile America without joining Mamdani in calling for his arrest and handover to the ICC for justice.


The Democratic Party shows once again why they will likely not regain many if not most of those 6,265,300 votes lost in ’24 when they continue to support war policies that disgrace core democratic values.


Zohran Mamdani stands alone in contrast to the Democratic Party ignoring the peaceful will of their base.


Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL