He’s mentioned it before, but New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is reportedly considering whether he can arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits the city in September. Netanyahu will be in town for a United Nations trip (via NY Post):
Mayor Zohran Mamdani says he’s still weighing whether he can arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli prime minister is scheduled to visit the Big Apple in September.
Hizzoner, a socialist Democrat who has faced heat for his anti-Israel rhetoric, is in an “active conversation” with authorities ahead of Netanyahu’s trip to Manhattan for the UN General Assembly.
“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in the Hague,” Mamdani told The New York Times.
“He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court,” Mamdani added.
[…]
Mamdani said he wasn’t sure if he had the authority to order the NYPD to cuff Netanyahu, but that he would act as aggressively as the law would allow.
The mayor is in “an active conversation” with the city’s Law Department over the matter, he said.
“Whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that’s what we will do, but we won’t be writing our own laws to that end,” said Mamdani.
Either this is just for show, which socialists excel at, or he’s about to spark an international incident that could embarrass Mamdani and the Democrat Party overall. Not sure the NYPD rank-and-file would be willing to provoke an incident over dubious legal reasoning that Mamdani and his group of antisemites would present.
Right-wing Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi keeps charting her conservative course, implementing her agenda unconcerned with the inevitable whining from the liberal media and the leftist opposition.
Yesterday (17), it was reported that the Japanese Upper House of Parliament passed legislation ‘criminalizing the desecration of Japan’s national flag’.
The legislation counted on the support of parts of the opposition, despite ‘concerns’ that the measure would ‘infringe on freedom of expression’.
The approved law will punish anyone who ‘publicly damages, removes or defaces the flag’ in a way causes ‘extreme discomfort or disgust to others’.
“Set to take effect in early August, the law states violators could face up to two years in prison or a fine of up to ¥200,000 ($1,250).
‘Insulting the national flag undermines the dignity of the country and hurts citizens who hold it dearly’, Mizuho Umemura, [an opposition] Sanseito lawmaker, told the Upper House plenary session the same day, adding that a legislature must set a clear standard.”
The bill sets out to protect physical flags, not miniature flags, or depictions of the flag in paintings, manga, anime, video games and works generated using artificial intelligence.
“Japan has a law to punish vandalizing foreign national flags, mainly those displayed at diplomatic facilities, to avoid international disputes. [Prime Minister] Takaichi says Japan’s lack of a law criminalizing disrespectful handling of its own national flag is ‘wrong.’
[…] Takaichi’s governing Liberal Democratic Party said violations include pulling down and discarding a national flag displayed at a municipal building; tearing, burning or cutting a national flag in a public space; stepping on a national flag, covering it with mud in public; livestreaming or uploading footage showing oneself cutting or burning a flag in a private space.
Use of images of a flag in anime, cartoons or those created by artificial intelligence is allowed because they are not in the tangible form, and flag images that form part of a painting won’t be subject to punishment.”
Watch: Japanese protesters step on a ‘projection’ of the flag.
ABC and NBC showed the entire world that they’re basically nothing more than leftist state-run media. The two broadcast giants decided not to air an address from the president of the United States to the American people because they decided it was a “conspiracy theory” to suggest any wrongdoing with the controversial, sketchy, and ridiculous 2020 election.Earlier reports that we shared with you stated that the networks were “pushing back” because Trump would be pushing “baseless conspiracies.”Mind you, at least half the country believes there was plenty of shadiness surrounding the 2020 election. But ABC and NBC executives apparently don’t care what the other half believes.
Charlie knew…This X post sums up the frustration shared by millions of Americans:Needless to say, the American people are fed up with the media, and they have plenty of questions, especially when it comes to Joe Biden’s infamous “Red Speech,” where he essentially smeared half the country as terrorists.
Every major network covered Joe Bidens “Red Speech” where he call half the country domestic terrorists, but they won’t cover President Trump speech tonight because he’s going to talk about securing our elections!
You don’t hate legacy media enough!
Biden told the American people that MAGA was a threat to the very foundations of the republic. He openly trashed more than half the country, and ABC and NBC were perfectly fine with it. They had no problem watching American citizens smeared as “domestic terrorists.” But God forbid President Trump discuss intelligence pointing to shady foreign activity surrounding the very goofy 2020 election.
Watch: Yes, some shaky, nonsensical Hitler-style speech is perfectly fine with ABC and NBC executives. Sadly, that actually makes sense.
Here’s what folks online are saying about this:
“THREE ENEMIES OF AMERICA; (1) ISLAM (2) The Democrat Party (3) The American Media CRUSHING all three – should BE a priority if America is to survive!”
“I don’t think ABC, NBC and CBS should have further access to our President in the Whitehouse.”
“For all the talk about nazi this and fascist that, they didn’t know fascism when it was staring them in the face.”
“So, the networks think Trump supporters are actual domestic terrorists. Good to know”
“Bar all networks from the White House!”
“So Biden’s Hitler speech calling half of America terrorists is ok ABC and NBC”
“A Legacy Media Outlet that ignores a U.S. President’s request for a live platform, is a traitor that must be severely punished! Broadcasting inside the United States is a PRIVILEGE that carries responsibilities. It’s not a right! “
Hiding information because you personally or politically deem it “unfavorable” is itself a political act, and that isn’t what our nation’s broadcast news media is supposed to do. If these networks exist solely to push left-wing propaganda while burying US intelligence about election interference, then they’re not functioning as news organizations. They’re operating more like political action committees, and their broadcast privileges should be treated accordingly.Furthermore, how are we supposed to take these broadcasters seriously? The same people who pushed the Russia hoax for years now expect to be treated as the final authority on what is and isn’t true. These are also the people who told Americans that Hunter Biden’s laptop was a Russian psyop.
But now, when President Trump wants to address one of the most important issues in the country, election security, they suddenly dismiss it as old, baseless conspiracy nonsense.
The truth is, you probably don’t hate the mainstream media enough. They have spent years misleading the public, burying stories that hurt Dems, and deciding which facts Americans are “allowed” to hear. They are the enemy of the people and a stain on this country and everything a free press is supposed to represent.
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin tried to talk cops out of issuing her Ivy League-educated son a trespassing citation — telling them he “has no criminal record” and repeatedly citing her legal background, according to newly released police bodycam footage.
The TV personality and former federal prosecutor was on the phone with her 24-year-old son, Gabriel Hostin, when he was stopped by police along Metro-North Railroad tracks in Westchester County last month.
“My name is Sunny Hostin and I’m one of the co-hosts of ‘The View’ and I’m a former federal prosecutor,” the 57-year-old mom can be heard saying to the responding officers in the bodycam footage obtained Friday by The Post.
Sunny Hostin argued that her son, who is a “Harvard graduate” who “teaches 4th grade geometry,” made “an innocent mistake.”MTA
“That’s my son. He’s a Harvard graduate, he doesn’t have a criminal record,” she said to another cop while on the phone.
Gabriel Hostin was detained on the side of the tracks in New Rochelle for“criminal trespassing” shortly before 8 p.m. on June 16 near 24 Station Plazaafter he was spotted “on the right-of-way of the active railroad tracks, in violation of the posted no trespassing signs,” according to the footage and court records
The 2025 Harvard University grad told the cops that he was out for a run and saw the gate near the tracks was open.
Sunny Hostin, who is a co-host on “The View,” told the responding officers she was a former federal prosecutor.ABC via Getty Images
After being detained on the tracks, the cops and Gabriel Hostin make their way to a nearby street, when the TV personality arrives on scene, doubling down on defending her son.
“I’m a former federal prosecutor. He knows. He’s a Harvard grad who teaches 4th grade geometry to South Bronx kids,” Sunny Hostin argues to one of the four apparent responding officers.
Gabriel Hoostin, 24, was issued a violation for criminal trespass.MTA
“He’s not a kid who’s ever in trouble. It’s an innocent mistake,” she pleads while acknowledging the violation.
Ultimately, the 24-year-old was slapped with a trespass violation for what can be an arrestable offense —but not without first trying to sweet talk his way out of the slap on the wrist.
Sunny Hostin was on the phone with her son, Gabriel, when he was caught on the Metro-North tracks.MTA
“Is this necessary,” Gabriel Hostin asks the cops who, in unison, respond with, “Yes.”
“What happens if you didn’t do it?” the Harvard University grad asks, referring to the summons ticket the cops were writing.
The cops said their “hands were tied” — adding that if they didn’t spot him along the tracks, someone else would have.
“Because it is an arrestable offense. I want to make that clear, okay? Where you were on the tracks is an arrestable offense,” one MTA cop can be heard asserting in the bodycam footage.
Reps for Sunny Hostin did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.Instagram/@gabe._.hostin
“We’re dimming it down to a trespass violation because you were in the right-of-way, you weren’t in the gauge or anything, which is the middle area where the tracks were on,” one officer says.
“And you’ve been very cooperative with us and you have a good background, everything like that. We know you’re not a criminal or anything like that but our hands are tied with cameras everywhere.”
Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor, is representing her son in court for the violation.MTA
Gabriel Hostin is due back in court in New Rochelle on July 31 and it appears his former federal prosecutor mom is representing him.
The talkshow co-host declined comment to The Post Monday, but in a letter obtained by TMZ, Sunny Hostin defended her son’s actions to Westchester Assistant District Attorney Amanda Greene, who is the prosecutor on Garbiel’s case.
“When jogging, he observed what appeared to be a gravel incline that could be used for hill training,” Sunny Hostin wrote. “Although there was a gate at the entrance of the gravel incline, the gates were standing open.”
“The only ‘No Trespassing’ sign was affixed to the left gate and, because the gates were open, it was not visible to my client as he entered the property,” she claimed.
Reps for Sunny Hostin did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
