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.
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.
Who did he arrest? Does he carry handcuffs on him now?
Do you say the same about Trump and ICE?
The mayor of a city cannot order the police department around…
The mayor appoints the police chief of their desire, who can order the PD around.
Zohran chose hardcore Zionist billilonaire Jessica Tisch who was responsible for brutalizing student protesters
When he campaigns on it he is “a superhero who is going to rid the world of evil”, when he doesn’t do it he is “poor little Mamdani who has no power to do anything”. Leftists are just as susceptible to the cult of personality as reactionaries.