Dozens of people were arrested in New York City while protesting against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s participation in the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday.
Actors Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder, as well as activist and whistleblower Chelsea Manning, were among the protesters arrested during a sit-in that blocked a main road leading to the UN.
Handcuffed and escorted by a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer, Einbinder was recorded in a video shared on social media saying, “Netanyahu out of New York, no bombs on Lebanon, no bombs on Iran, stop the genocide.”
Nerdeen Kiswani, founder of Within Our Lifetime, a Palestinian-led community organisation, criticised Mamdani’s video, saying it was “a far cry from campaigning on arresting Netanyahu. Instead of arresting Netanyahu, the NYPD arrested the protesters.
“This is the exact opposite of what Mamdani ran on,” she wrote.
The world is upside down.
Nah. This is about par for the course
So Mamdani won’t order NYPD to arrest Netanyahu, but either ordered or allowed to occur the arrest of the protestors?
Yes, as always liberals, by any name, will always defend the status quo.
As much as I hate making excuses for politicians… Even if Mamdani ordered Netanyahu to be arrested, he’d just be released within two hours, and Mamdani would be the one arrested next. Or dead.
Then don’t campaign on it. Politicians who are are talk and no action are useless against genocide.
Apparently he can arrest people protesting against genocide though.
That’s because SCOTUS already said. The United States President is immune from prosecution. Look at Naseratu’s motorcade too. He really is our president I guess
