India, Sept. 25 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his platform before the United Nations General Assembly to deliver an unsparing critique of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, characterising the municipal leader's conduct as embodying the antisemitism threatening Jewish communities worldwide.

Rather than focusing exclusively on bilateral state-level concerns, Netanyahu devoted substantial remarks to Mamdani's statements regarding alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza and the mayor's threats to enforce an ICC arrest warrant.

Netanyahu stated that Mamdani, the first Muslim mayor of New York, represents a broader pattern in which leaders "single out Israel whilst using the prestige of his office to legitimise rhetoric that f...