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.

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    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.

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      11 days ago

      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.

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        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.

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            Murdered, not displaced. But not quite 2 million at a single event I hope, but the order of magnitude is right.

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              same magnitude as the whole population of Gaza

              “more than the tens of thousands that were recently killed in Gaza”

              If english is not your first language, you should know that those are very different statements.

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      The only good thing about this news is that it’s clearly getting under his skin.

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    Mandan threatens Bibi with legal consequences for his real actions.

    Bibi threatens Mamdani with death for unreal actions.

    A genocidal fever has gripped Israel exactly akin to the Nazi movement, America’s Manifest Destiny period, Rwanda in the 90s, Cambodia in the 70s. It’s part of our human political weather at this point.

    Why wreck the world over the latest round? These fuckers need to be tried publicly like Nuremberg. Humanity needs to learn about itself honestly. We’re apes with nukes, and we’re making mistakes.