'Netanyahu used his speech to repeat baseless lies': Mamdani slams Israel PM's UN address

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and accused him of using his UN General Assembly speech to repeat "baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide of Palestinians."In a statement issued hours after Netanyahu's address, Mamdani said the Israeli PM is the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court.“As he has done time and again, Prime Minister Netanyahu used his speech to repeat baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide of Palestinians,"Mamdani said."Yet no lie can change the fact that he remains the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity,” he added.This came after Netanyahu launched a broadside against Mamdani and accused him of endangering Jewish New Yorkers with his "lies about Israel."While addressing the UN General Assembly, Netanyahu called Mamdani "the antisemitic mayor of New York" and said that Mamdani's…