Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked pushback from foreign and local leaders as he delivered a defiant speech at the United Nations in Manhattan on Friday while protesters gathered on the streets outside.

Netanyahu’s visit has become a flashpoint in this year’s mayoral election , with Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani issuing a statement condemning the Israeli leader over the war in Gaza while Mayor Adams planned to meet with Netanyahu later in the day.

Mamdani, who has vowed if elected to order the NYPD to arrest Netanyahu on war crime charges leveled against him by the International Criminal Court, noted in a statement that the prime minister was delivering his speech before “an institution which has concluded his government has committed a genocide of Palestinians i

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