MembersA tsunami of lies

(JNS) We are being overwhelmed by a global tsunami of lies.

Flanked by US and New York City flags, the mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, packed so many lies about Israel into a videoed two-minute hate that he sounded like the late Hassan Nasrallah on double speed.

Mamdani proclaimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a war criminal, the architect of genocide, responsible for killing more than 73,000 in Gaza, for maiming tens of thousands of children, for targeting neonatal hospitals, for blocking food and aid, and for gunning down hundreds of aid workers and journalists.

The ostensible purpose of this farrago of falsehoods was to complain that when Netanyahu comes to the headquarters of the United Nations in September, the mayor would be unable to arrest him under the terms of the warrant issued by the International Criminal Court.

But there was never any prospect of Mamdani doing so because only a federal government has that power; moreover, the United States has...

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