New York City’s Democratic nominee for the mayor’s office, Zohran Mamdani, has said that he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited the city, because of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC). This would be lawless, since the United States has refused to join the tribunal, and Netanyahu is not accused of committing any crimes here. The same cannot be said for the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, who temporarily stepped down from his post last month facing allegations of sexual assault—some of which allegedly occurred in Manhattan.
That makes Khan subject to a criminal grand jury investigation in New York—leading potentially to an indictment and arrest.
AccordingtoreportingintheWallStreetJournal,oneofKhan’saccusers,amemberofhisstaff,hastoldinvestigatorsthatKhansexuallyassaultedherastheytraveledtointernationalcrimescenesaroundtheworld—fromtheCongotoColombiatoChad.Healsoallegedlydidsoinhiswife’sapartmentinTheHague,wherethetribunalisbased—andinacornersuiteattheMillenniumHiltonHotelatU.N.PlazainManhattan,inanincidenttheaccus
