I want you to sit with something for a second.

New York City has a mayor right now whose signature initiatives—the ones he’s chosen to spend his political capital on—are these: making the needle exchange program permanent and bigger, chasing a legal fantasy about arresting a foreign head of state, and hanging out with inmates at Rikers Island to watch soccer.

That’s not a caricature. That’s the actual record.

Let’s start with the fantasy, because it’s the loudest one.

Zohran Mamdani told the New York Times his administration is in “active conversation” with the city’s Law Department about arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he comes to New York for the UN General Assembly in September. He called him a “war criminal.” Said he “belongs in The Hague.”

Fine. He’s entitled to his opinion of Netanyahu.

But here’s the problem. This isn’t opinion dressed as policy. It’s theater dressed as policy. The U.S. Ambassador to the UN said as much—called it “pure political theater” — and he’s right, for reasons that have nothing to do with politics and everything to do with basic facts. The United States isn’t party to the treaty that created the ICC.........

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