Benjamin Netanyahu has compared Zohran Mamdani, New York’s socialist mayor, to Iran’s supreme leader on a campaign billboard.
The poster in central Tel Aviv, paid for by the Israeli prime minister’s Right-wing, nationalist Likud Party, placed Mr Mamdani alongside the leaders of Iran, Hezbollah and Turkey.
“They want Netanyahu to lose,” it reads above the faces of Mojtaba Khamenei, Mr Mamdani, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Naim Qassem. “Don’t let them win,” it adds in Hebrew.
Why is this news. Who gives a fuck what a war criminal has to say about a US mayor on a billboard in his apartheid nation.
War criminal is a low bar to clear. How about, architect of the worst genocide of the twenty first century…so far? Genocidal maniac for short.
Sadly there have been a number of worse genocides in the 21th century. Some with numbers of deaths in the same order of magnitude as the whole population of Gaza.
The only good thing about this news is that it’s clearly getting under his skin.