rred political narrative. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony marking 50 years since Operation Entebbe, Operation Yonathan, at the president's residence in Jerusalem on Sunday, July 12, 2026. Debbie Hill/UPI/Shutterstock

Although Hizzoner was forced to wave the white flag Tuesday, he continued to rail against the Israeli prime minister.

 Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people,  he said.

The anti-Israel mayor - who has made accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza a focal point of a socialist ideology that has helped thrust him into the national spotlight - vowed during last year's campaign that, if elected, he'd have Netanyahu arrested if he ever came to the Big Apple.

That promise resurfaced Saturday when Mamdani argued that Netanyahu  belongs in The Hague  during a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times.

Mamdani's wife has also come under fire for controversial comments about the US and Israel.

Rama Duwaji has been accused of liking since-deleted social media posts praising Palestinian terror groups and others attacking US service members for assisting the Jewish state.

And she once liked a social media post claiming Hamas' brutal rape of Israelis during the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack was a  mass hoax. 

Mamdani has defended his wife as a private person.

 She is her own person,  he said about the Syrian-American artist.  She is an incredible artist, and yet so much of how she engages with the world is framed through her being my wife.