NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani reiterated his criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Monday, hours after outgoing Mayor Eric Adams met with the Israeli leader.

Speaking in a live appearance on ABC7, Mamdani said Adams’ meeting with Netanyahu underscored what he views as a disconnect between the city’s urgent concerns and symbolic foreign policy gestures, adding that New Yorkers “are desperate for an administration” focused on their immediate needs.

“New Yorkers are on the brink of being priced out of the city that they call home, and his actions have little to do with that affordability crisis,” Mamdani said. “What they show, in fact, is why New Yorkers are so desperate for a new administration, one that will focus on the needs of the city and will look to speak to working-class New Yorkers as to what those needs are, as opposed to war criminals.”

Mamdani has condemned the Israeli invasion of Gaza as an act of genocide and has vowed to have Netanyahu arrested should he set foot in New York, a threat he repeated in an interview with ABC on Monday.

“Being a city of international law means looking to uphold international law,” Mamdani said. “And that means upholding the warrants from the International Criminal Court, whether they’re for Benjamin Netanyahu or Vladimir Putin.”

(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)