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.
While I agree with them that Netanyahu should be arrested, neither Mamdani nor the NYPD have the jurisdiction to do it.
They do. Trump can release Netanyahu shortly after but Mamdani has the jurisdiction to make the initial arrest for Netanyahu killing Americans.
Unfortunately I don’t think you are correct here. By being a diplomat attached to the UN Netanyahu would have diplomatic immunity while on an official visit. If he had gone to Times Square or something completely outside of the duties of his visit then there might be a case but he didn’t.
Contrary to popular opinion, diplomatic immunity is anything but absolute. It does massively hinder investigations for full diplomats as all their communications etc. are protected. But in most countries they do not have immunity from the law except in matters that pertain to their diplomatic duties.
That is false
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peremptory_norm
A peremptory norm (also called jus cogens)[1] is a fundamental rule of international law that is accepted and recognized by the international community of states as a whole as a norm from which no derogation is permitted. Unlike ordinary treaty obligations or customary international law, a peremptory norm cannot be overridden by treaties, agreements, or national laws. Thought to be so fundamental that it even invalidates rules drawn from treaty or custom, “norms of this character, therefore, cannot be derogated from by the will of the contracting parties.”[2]
There is no universal agreement regarding precisely which norms are jus cogens nor how a norm reaches that status, but it is generally accepted that jus cogens bans genocide, maritime piracy, enslaving in general (i.e. slavery as well as slave trade), wars of aggression and territorial aggrandizement, and generally as well torture, and refoulement.[3]
Yes, but even he doesn’t think he has the authority to do it in this case.
He has a solid case to argue he does and he never provided the reason he doesn’t. Sounds to me like he doesn’t wanna.
New York City shouldn’t arrest anyone for crimes committed entirely elsewhere absent an extradition request.
New York State shouldn’t arrest foreign diplomats since the federal government is responsible for interacting with diplomats.
The USA shouldn’t arrest any diplomat heading to the United Nations since the UN stops being useful if it’s not a place for hated enemies to talk
The only entity that should be expected to arrest someone at the UN for an ICC warrant is the UN itself. And they fucking should have, but that’s on them and not Mamdani, Hochul, or (sigh) Trump.
This is false. Delete your post, and stop spreading misinformation. I want Netanyahu to rot as much as anyone else, but since he was in NYC for the UN, he has diplomatic immunity. Otherwise every UN meeting would be a free for all.
Do you think the US should’ve been able to arrest Fidel Castro when he stayed in Harlem? Probably not. Diplomatic immunity is the reason why, and it protects people we like, as much as it protects people we don’t.
That is false
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peremptory_norm
A peremptory norm (also called jus cogens)[1] is a fundamental rule of international law that is accepted and recognized by the international community of states as a whole as a norm from which no derogation is permitted. Unlike ordinary treaty obligations or customary international law, a peremptory norm cannot be overridden by treaties, agreements, or national laws. Thought to be so fundamental that it even invalidates rules drawn from treaty or custom, “norms of this character, therefore, cannot be derogated from by the will of the contracting parties.”[2]
There is no universal agreement regarding precisely which norms are jus cogens nor how a norm reaches that status, but it is generally accepted that jus cogens bans genocide, maritime piracy, enslaving in general (i.e. slavery as well as slave trade), wars of aggression and territorial aggrandizement, and generally as well torture, and refoulement.[3]
He didn’t have the jurisdiction, he asked and checked before, last time Bibi was here