Mr. Adams
told a reporter that Mr. Mamdani would not be able to arrest Mr. Netanyahu and his comments were “volatile rhetoric” that his left-leaning base supports.
“There is no police officer in the city of New York that is going to carry out that directive from the mayor, and he knows that,” Mr. Adams said.
Earlier on Monday, Mr. Adams gave a brief news conference at a hotel in Jerusalem, followed by an interview with Kan, the Israeli public broadcaster. Mr. Adams said the purpose of his trip was “to ensure Jewish New Yorkers and our friends here in the Middle East, Israelis, that I’m leaving City Hall, but I’m going nowhere.”
He also said that he was meeting with Israeli officials “to assure them that 49 percent of New Yorkers do not buy into the rhetoric of the hatred toward Israel,” apparently referring to the percentage of voters who did not support Mr. Mamdani in this month’s election.