Danon says Mamdani should stop "promoting anti-Semitism" and "supporting Hamas"
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, in remarks to reporters at UN headquarters
“Unfortunately, Mayor Mamdani is continuing to incite against Prime Minister Netanyahu, labelling him as a rogue criminal. It will not help him. …And I would advise Mayor Mamdani to focus on the problem in the city of New York and stop with promoting anti-Semitism, stop supporting Hamas and stop engaging with the Iranian regime.”
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Danon spoke to reporters at UN headquarters ahead of Netanyahu's UN General Assembly address, accusing Mamdani of inciting against Netanyahu and calling on him to focus on New York instead of what Danon called antisemitism, Hamas support, and Iran engagement. Transcribed from the C-SPAN video (whisper large-v3-turbo, two independent passes in agreement); a closing sentence in the clip was not intelligible enough to quote and was omitted.
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The remarks came the same day case 86 records Netanyahu's video accusing Mamdani of inciting riots against New York Jews (PE 1506), as Netanyahu prepared to address the UN General Assembly.
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Danon's remarks continued with a further sentence on the UN visit that was not clearly intelligible in the available video and is not reproduced here.
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Case context: Is Mamdani's campaign against Netanyahu's UN visit fomenting hate, or is it accountability for war crimes?
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Relative to case 86's fixed reference point — the confrontation between Mamdani's campaign against Netanyahu and Netanyahu's camp characterizing that campaign as hateful incitement — Danon condemns Mamdani's campaign directly, calling it incitement ("labelling him as a rogue criminal") and repeating, in stronger terms than his September 17 statement (PE 1508), that Mamdani is "promoting anti-Semitism" and "supporting Hamas" rather than governing New York.
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