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The Mayor’s Obsession With International Law

A dangerous fixation now pointed at a synagogue

Pro-Palestinians outside the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, New York City. Getty Images

Incoming New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, just quietly and almost invisibly crossed a line that has never before been crossed in American politics:  he defined a group of American civilians as “war criminals.”  This time, the Mayor-elect targeted Jewish New Yorkers: their “war crime” was attending a talk at Manhattan’s Park East synagogue to discuss (not surprisingly) the possibility of leaving.  Yet now that a line has been crossed with no apparent consequences, no religion or minority group will be safe.p

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