Conservative historian and scholar Victor Davis Hanson recently went off on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, reminding him that New York City doesn’t belong to him.
Hanson used the ridiculous claims by Mamdani that Israeli leader Netanyahu should be arrested the next time he comes to the city and went off further from there.
He notes that Mamdani has no plans to arrest Iranian leaders who killed thousands of their own people earlier this year. In fact, Mamdani’s team is trying to meet with them.
Partial transcript:
Mamdani with that socialist smile and that oozy, unctuous personality, I thought he wouldn’t be so stupid to admit that he’s an absolute antisemite and hates Israel. Because any person who listened to his video and read what he wrote, the first question is…
OK, you have a policy that anybody that you think in your infinite wisdom committed genocide can’t come into your city – he said you can’t come in to our city.
It’s not your city. You’re an interloper. You had about 11 percent of the resident population vote for you, and it’s not your city, I’m sorry.
You may think it is, you’re the mayor for a while but it’s not your city.
And then, the question everybody has is, though I know our listeners are saying, well of course, when the Palestinians come in, because they aided and abetted Hamas in many cases, you’re going to arrest them, given October 7th.
You’re going to arrest the Iranian delegation because they were responsible, that government, for killing 40 to 50 thousand of their own, well after Gaza. Oh, wait a minute, you’re not going to do that because members of your staff were secretly going to meet with them.
Watch the whole thing below:
Victor Davis Hanson to Zohran Mamdani: ‘New York Is Not Your City.’
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he would seek to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited New York, citing an International Criminal Court warrant.
Mamdani applies a double… pic.twitter.com/zvvN8TZ6QZ
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Hanson is spot on about all of this.
Mamdani’s threat to arrest Netanyahu was a virtue signal to the ‘Free Palestine!’ mob which is basically his voter base.
He never had the authority to actually carry out an arrest and he knows it. And Hanson is right. It’s not HIS city.
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