A Hamas terror survivor is warning that New York City’s mayor is spreading a “dangerous” story that turns the man who led Israel through October 7 into a war criminal and “genocide” villain.
Story Snapshot
- A Nova music festival survivor says Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s video about Benjamin Netanyahu is “dangerous.”
- Mamdani backs an International Criminal Court arrest warrant and calls Netanyahu the architect of a “horrific genocide.”
- The survivor describes Hamas’ brutal attack and rejects claims that Israel commits genocide against Palestinians.
- Mamdani admits New York City has no legal power to arrest Netanyahu but still urges the federal government to do it.
Hamas survivor pushes back on NYC mayor’s “dangerous” video
Mazal Tazazo survived the Hamas terror attack at Israel’s Nova music festival, where gunmen murdered hundreds of young people on October 7, 2023. She later spoke out after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a video calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal” and “the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people.” Tazazo said Mamdani’s comments were “dangerous,” warning that his words twist the story of who was attacking civilians that day.
Radio host Jason Rantz shared Tazazo’s response in a video on social media, amplifying her challenge to Mamdani’s claims. She reminded viewers that Hamas terrorists stormed the festival, hunting down unarmed partygoers, shooting and beating them, and taking hostages. Tazazo said she played dead to stay alive after gunmen bashed her with a rifle, making clear that the threat to civilians came from Hamas, not from Netanyahu or the Israeli government. Her firsthand account clashes strongly with the mayor’s framing.
Mamdani backs ICC arrest push and blames Netanyahu for “genocide”
In his own video, Mamdani said he agrees with the International Criminal Court, which has sought an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. He declared that “Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested and tried for his crimes” and pressed the federal government to enforce a warrant if Netanyahu comes to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Mamdani vowed that his administration had reviewed “every avenue” under current law to see if New York City could carry out the arrest, tying his attack on Netanyahu directly to international law language.
Mamdani’s message went further by listing dramatic casualty and abuse claims that he blamed personally on Netanyahu. He asserted Netanyahu is “responsible for the killing of more than 73,000 people,” for “tens of thousands of children” maimed, for amputations “without anesthesia,” and for “targeting” neonatal hospitals and maternity centers. He also accused him of starving civilians by blocking food and aid. These statements match talking points used by anti-Israel activists worldwide, but they land very differently when coming from the mayor of America’s largest city.
Survivor rejects “genocide” claim and defends Israel’s conduct
Tazazo answered Mamdani not with legal theory but with facts from her life in Israel. She described living under years of rocket fire, with a bomb shelter in her home, and said Hamas attacks have forced Israeli families to constantly fear for their children. In the interview, she pushed back on talk of Israeli “annexation” and “genocide,” saying, “We don’t do any annexation… This is a big lie,” and stressing that Israel provides medical care to Palestinians as well. Her story paints Israel as a country under attack that still tries to care for civilians on both sides.
Mazal Tazazo is a survivor of the Hamas terrorism attack at the Nova music festival, which is where this video was taken.
Today, she absolutely unloaded on Zohran Mamdani for threatening to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.
Must listen to her. pic.twitter.com/oNhz7oSE1Z
— Jason Rantz on Seattle Red (@jasonrantz) July 22, 2026
Tazazo also highlighted Hamas tactics that endanger civilians, including using people as human shields and refusing to give warnings before attacks. By pointing to how Hamas fights, she challenged Mamdani’s effort to assign almost all civilian suffering to Israel alone. From a conservative view, her warning matters because it comes from someone who saw Hamas terror up close, and it raises serious questions about city leaders who echo extreme activist claims rather than stand clearly against terrorism and antisemitism.
Mayor admits city lacks authority but keeps symbolic arrest push
Even as he spoke in harsh terms about Netanyahu, Mamdani conceded that New York City does not have the “independent legal authority” to enforce an International Criminal Court warrant. He said his team found no way for the city itself to arrest a foreign leader and acknowledged that only the federal government could carry out such a move. That means his video was mainly a symbolic demand, not a real plan, but its legal weakness did not stop him from framing Netanyahu as a global criminal and genocide planner.
For many readers, this fight shows how charged war-crimes language has moved from courtrooms into city politics. Once a sitting mayor publicly calls a U.S. ally’s leader a war criminal and backs foreign arrest demands, it signals a shift toward activist foreign policy inside local government. That worries conservatives who expect city leaders to focus on crime, taxes, and services, not to join global campaigns that smear a democratic country defending itself from a terror group that slaughters civilians at music festivals and across border towns.
Sources:
nypost.com, foxnews.com, jpost.com, youtube.com, timesofisrael.com
