India, June 26 -- New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani once vowed to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if he ever visited New York.

In an interview clip from December last year that is now going viral, Mamdani was asked he would welcome the Israeli PM, to which the 33-year-old Queens assemblyman said, "No. As mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. This is a city that our values are in line with international law. It's time that our actions are also."

The interviewer, former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, had asked Mamdani the question referencing the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Netanyahu for alleged war crimes in the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The United States, Israel's key diplomat...