Tlaib Offers Mamdani Help to Arrest Netanyahu as Democrats Split Over ICC Warrant
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 22
Tlaib Offers Mamdani Help to Arrest Netanyahu as Democrats Split Over ICC Warrant
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 22
Summary
Rashida Tlaib said "Arrest him" and even offered to help Zohran Mamdani detain Benjamin Netanyahu, after the New York mayor dropped his own pledge and urged the federal government to act on the ICC warrant.
Mamdani said New York City lacks the "independent legal authority" to carry out such an arrest, shifting Tuesday to a public call for federal enforcement while declaring Netanyahu "not welcome in New York City."
House Democrats split over that stance: Summer Lee backed calling Netanyahu a war criminal but did not weigh in on Mamdani's authority, while Jerry Nadler said any city action would fail because U.N.-related diplomatic protections apply in New York.
The dispute lands against a broader U.S. rejection of the ICC process: the United States is not party to the Rome Statute, Trump said Netanyahu "will not be arrested," and Marco Rubio has threatened to "dismantle" the court.