Mamdani continues his lawless threats against Netanyahu

(JNS) — Whether on Broadway or in City Hall, theatrics are a fixture of New York City life. But no performance — whether in Times Square or Lower Manhattan — rivals mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s outrageous campaign-trail promise and post-election reaffirmation that he would seek to enforce an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he set foot in the city.

The significance of Mamdani’s pledge lies not merely in its impossibility or illegality, but in what the promise and its later “clarification” tell us about the young man about to lead...