In the shadow of the United Nations and amid an ongoing war, New York City's mayor and Israel's prime minister have found themselves in a war of words that cuts to the heart of one of democracy's oldest tensions: where does political criticism end and incitement begin? Mayor Zohran Mamdani's invocation of the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu has drawn a fierce counter-accusation from Rabbi Marc Schneier, who charges that the mayor's language has moved from dissent into something that emboldens violence against Jewish New Yorkers. The dispute, playing out
Rabbi accuses NYC Mayor Mamdani of architecting antisemitism over Netanyahu rhetoric
Rabbi Schneier alleges Mamdani's rhetoric has already led to physical attacks on Jews in New York.